Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2009

My chapter appears in an edited volume by Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. It is a solid reference manual for best practice of social software tools in teaching and learning. As is the case with all IGI Reference books it is very overpriced.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A particular emphasis on Web Enhanced Learning (WEL) approaches will be made and strategies for university-wide adoption of social software (Web 2.0) Tags: Web enhanced learning formal learning Change informal learning. tools and services will be presented. This is human nature.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Getting ready now for my afternoon breakout session at Online Educa Berlin. How students are using social software in their learning'. Tags: Pontydysgu oeb08 Online Educa Berlin. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2009

This morning I received an email asking… How are people using social software to support learning? I think most of us agree that there is an important social dimension to learning. But in what ways do social software applications such as LinkedIn and FaceBook help people to learn?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 26, 2010

Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: Social Software: Get Affiliated. But the rise of online communities based on self-affiliation may be putting technology on your side. Social Software: Get Affiliated. Want to understand the emerging world of social software?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2008

She focused on staff support (the majority are part-time professors) to train their online tutors. Social software tools are overwhelming in number and scope, but applications are becoming friendlier and can be used to build communities. When we are using social software, who needs protection? e-portfolios!).

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'm sat in the Marlene Bar of the Hotel Intercontinental just before the start of day one of the Online Educa Berlin conference. We chewed the fat over the future (or not) of VLEs, residents and visitors, social software and German caberet. The first thing you notice about Educa, is that it is shamelessly commercial.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And when it comes to new and emerging technologies, there are still many barriers up against using social software - YouTube is filtered out, yet contains some incredible learning opportunities for language, music, history, science and sport. More pictures like the one above are online.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Several vendors of social network suites have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. I need you to give me a one-page list of the capabilties you require from social software to make the most of social learning and carry out your vision of what we need to do.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 19, 2009

It delineates some of the affordances and constraints of wiki software as an open architecture that has the potential to facilitate collaborative learning through community-focused enquiry. Tags: academic writing wiki social practice. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 26, 2009

Earlier today I was invited by my good friend Maged Kamel Boulos to write a paper on educational mashups for inclusion in a special issue of Future Internet - an online open access journal, which he is guest editing. Tags: e-learning blog wiki learning Web 2.0 So I have put together a title and an abstract which I hope fits the bill.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 7, 2009

Online Resources for the Library of Congress, eLearning, & more - WISE Pedagogy , July 1, 2009. News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed , June 29, 2009. 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online , June 25, 2009. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning , June 29, 2009.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2008

Tomorrow I'm in Bristol on the invitation of the JISC to present two papers reporting on recent research we have been doing on social software at their regional support centre conference. See the wiki activities page of one online group for an example here. One of my papers will detail my wiki activities 5 stage model.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 2, 2010

to quote Scott, "courses taught using contemporary social software/web 2.0 Lastly, students at my institution love the Google Apps interface, which makes it very easy to get them to engage with their work using online tools. Tags: Manish Malik VLE PLE Cloud Learning Environment. Loosely coupled.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Recent discussions about the future of learning, e.g., at the Learning Futures Festival and JISC online 08 have shown that there are new more personalised and flexible technologies coming along for learners to manage their own learning. Tags: monkey business aggregator James Clay VLE Helen Whitehaed wiki Edupunk Skype Felix Grant.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making. DevLearn and KM World.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 19, 2009

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. Online Induction: Icebreaker Activities - Dont Waste Your Time , August 7, 2009. Twitter - Social Media - Informal - Weekly Best of eLearning Learning , August 11, 2009.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 1, 2007

I'm back home from Online Educa Berlin , and it's time to reflect. And social software is not about making money, but about liberating learners to contribute their own content to the mix. Tags: Bloom's taxonomy Andrew Keen Maslow Gagne Donald Clark Online Educa Berlin Kolb. well, Germany. get a grip, Andrew!'

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Cheap, simple conferencing tools let workers meet wherever there’s an online connection. Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. Online team rooms keep the lights on as projects move around the world, passed from one team to the next.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. Online Induction: Icebreaker Activities - Dont Waste Your Time , August 7, 2009. Four Ways to Encourage Social Learning Without Web 2.0 The following are the top items based on social signals. Role of an online community manager , August 27, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

This morning I received an email asking…”How are people using social software to support learning?” W hen I signed up for Spaces for Interaction: An Online Conversation about Improving the Traditional Conference , I didn’t appreciate how timely the topic would become. Tags: Informal Learning. Too much technology.

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eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Netiquette: a handy guide for online students - Dont Waste Your Time , February 8, 2010 Based on a Guide from the LSC (Lake Superior College) wiki of netiquette for their online students. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning I.

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Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

Coaches, mentors, online buddies need to coexist within the wiki’s, blogs, discussion forums, webcam meetings, online presence, etc. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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Janet Clarey

APRIL 2, 2009

Current learning delivery channels primarily ILT classroom and ILT online as well as a fair amount of self-paced e-learning. Other notes: Definition of social media vary among attendees (~160). Noted main difference between main stream media and social media. Social media enables everyone to publish/access info inexpensively.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 1, 2012

” 6 – Does the online education revolution mean the death of the diploma , Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Fast Coexist, February 2012. To understand the challenges of using collaborative or social software inside business organizations, begin by thinking about the use of similar technologies in your personal life.”

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

instructor-free, often dubbed eLearning ) and a third by online instructors. Online Learning. Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job. Search, tags, indexes, rankings. Predominant way people learn to do their jobs. Continuous. Experiential. Know where.

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