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Introducting social media in organisations to improve the learning function is more difficult than you may think.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

For some time now, I have an evaluation report of an organization that has experience with the introduction of social media (like wikis and blog) in the organization since 2009. We chose to use existing social media services in the cloud instead of buying a company package, because this creates flexibility and is cheaper.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

The real issue is that LMS vendors are attempting to position their tools as the center-point for elearning - removing control from the system's end-users: instructors and learners. Only recently (and in limited ways) have LMS vendors started extending tools and offerings beyond simple content sequencing and discussion forums.

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct. There are over 25 social media types – types include social networking, live casting, game platforms, virtual worlds, web conferencing, social bookmarking, social network aggregators, social news aggregators, blogs, app sharing (inc.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social Bookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.us Wists - social shopping with image bookmarking and creation of lists – ditch the shopping part, keep the image bookmarking and creating of lists, Yoono. Wikis - Wikipedia. Social Professional Networks - LinkedIn.

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Social Media and Social Learning – Where R We now?

eLearning 24-7

Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct. There are over 25 social media types – types include social networking, live casting, game platforms, virtual worlds, web conferencing, social bookmarking, social network aggregators, social news aggregators, blogs, app sharing (inc.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

As social learning continues to grow, LMS/LCMS vendors are taking various approaches. While some view themselves as “social learning&# savvy, incorporating various components, others seem to see themselves as just sitting on the sidelines. Time for these vendors to wake up, or see your audience share disappear.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

The value of del.icio.us / Yahoo MyWeb is that it first helps the individual and by helping the individual it helps the collective. Especially if large LMS vendors take Bob's advice and become even bigger and more bloated and are really, really hard to implement (which is his very first complaint).

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