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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

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Social networking sites have educational benefits: University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow breaks down how her research has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can have an impact for learning and educational growth for high school students.

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Competition Finalist 3: Social Learning Applied

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But why not enhancing this natural social activity to amplify its effect? But, It should also provide the means for students to reach out to each other. So, where does this leave us in regards to the actual choices we make as instructors or technology providers? Social Learning may be “fuzzy” and “buzzy” at the moment.

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The challenges of training remote teams

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Solution: Streamline the user experience and provide tech support. And provide a chat or call option so employees can reach live tech support when needed. You can also provide opportunities for collaboration by assigning group projects. Or, create a social networking space. Start with a user-friendly LMS.

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eFrontPro For IBM Connections

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One of the recent innovations in the training industry has come through the use of social technologies to support informal learning: organizations have experimented with Twitter, in particular, to increase employee awareness of when and where eLearning content is available for them. eFrontPro For Connections.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

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A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), social networking itself is not going anywhere. Facebook is the Godzilla of social networks.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

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A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), social networking itself is not going anywhere. Facebook is the Godzilla of social networks.

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Social networking & the workplace

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Dan Pontefract’s recent blog post on companies (not) allowing Facebook at work has prompted me to dust off the topic of how social helps companies get the business of communicating, collaborating and learning done – and hence the business of business done!