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Edupunk stalks the institution.

Learning with e's

Students are also voting with their feet, with many preferring to use social networking tools such as Facebook to communicate in place of the institutional e-mail system. The adoption of free social software tools has raised questions over corporate branding, security and privacy issues, and legal requirements.

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Web 2.0 again

Learning with e's

workshop which is being run by James Clay (Gloucestershire College), and we are exploring a range of social software tools. Earlier Graham Russell, Mark Pannell and I presented a session on the iHub project (see the post from earlier today) and had a heavy duty discussion about privacy, anonymity, control and institutional policies.

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Podcasting - Twitter - Media - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. Jakob Nielsen on social networks on the intranet - Clive on Learning , August 12, 2009. Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings For Kids? Featured Sources.

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Windmills on the mind

Learning with e's

Someone remarked that there are complex and comprehensive privacy and copyright rules in the user agreements in most social networking systems, but no-one ever reads them. Copyright is an issue, and not many people understand the notion of creative commons. How much do we own our digital self?

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Lectora e-Learning and IBM to Offer Social Learning Solutions

Trivantis

In response to this informal style of learning, organizations are investing in social learning solutions now more than ever before. into employees’ day-to-day activities, showing that social software is currently becoming mainstream among businesses. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service.' So, what does all of this mean?

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Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

Tony Karrer

Adoption - What's the PU? Adoption in the Enterprise - It's Personal Adoption Rate = Perceived Usefulness (PU) * Perceive Ease of Use (PEOU) So, Pam’s right on ease-of-use (or perceived ease-of-use).

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

Faculty use social networks to support communication and information sharing among committees, teams, and research projects. Institutional staff use social software to improve communication with students for both recruitment and retention purposes. Student and faculty privacy are sacrosanct.