Now is the time for learning professionals to embrace social learning as an emerging and engaging way to enhance an organization’s learning strategy. Add to this the rising inferno (and demand) of social media, informal learning, and anything to do with a 2.0 moniker—including social learning—and you have yourself a full-blown learning crisis for the learning profession. Given this pending calamity, it’s time for learning leaders to rethink their strategy to make social learning an important piece of the learning spectrum. Enter social learning. percent. MORE >>

Are there any FREE Course/Learning Management Systems (C/LMS) out there that require no financial hardware, software and hosting investments? A social site for knowledge seekers to enrich their knowledge through online learning, sharing and socializing to make new friends without boundaries (It even includes an online conferencing tool! It claims to be the only learning management system built from the ground up on the principles and architecture of social software. Related Posts - Edu2.0 FREE HOSTED C/LMS? eLearning Community 2.0 How do they make money? MORE >>

We invite papers on the digital divide, e-learning methods and case studies, mobile and pervasive technologies, digital games, multi-user virtual environments, informal learning, new classroom technologies (PDAs interactive whiteboards, etc), personal learning environments, visual media (videoconference, digital photography), e-portfolios and social software (wikis, blogs, podcasting, etc). Josie Fraser is well known in the field of social media and learning, and writes regularly about her research on her blog SocialTech. MORE >>

And what does that mean for using Twitter as an element in your social learning mix? In any case… What does this mean for using Twitter in social learning? So here’s a study of note: Terry Anderson (Athabasca University), Bruno Poellhuber (University of Montreal) and Ross McKerlich (Centerboard Strategic Learning) have published the results of their study in the article, “Self-paced Learners Meet Social Software: An Exploration of Learners’ Attitudes, Expectations, and Experience&# ( you can read this report online here. MORE >>

Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, August 3, 2009: Social Networking on Intranets Summary: Community features are spreading from "Web 2.0" Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features. Social features on intranets take these two trends a step further, creating a "person-structured" intranet IA focused around the individual users as well as other people on the intranet. As people embrace social media in their private lives, they naturally expect to use similar tools within the enterprise. to "Enterprise 2.0." Using Web 2.0 MORE >>