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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. Properly d.

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

Before covering the initial statement about it being a fiasco or not as effective as in-classroom instruction, the latter about being “new” needs to be further explained. An estimated 700,000 students (K-12) took at least one online course in 2005-2006 (Piccano and Seaman, 2007). With SBL, students go in a linear method.

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e-Learning Acupuncture: Technology, Colleges and Community Online Conference

E-Learning Acupuncture

Its a completely virtual conference. All the presenters and attendees stay in their current locations yet everyone joins together in synchronous and asynchronous activities for three days (April 15-17, 2008). ► March (3) Let the world changing online video games begin! Personally I think this is a really great idea!

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Online Course Development and Design Strategies

Academy of Mine

Do you think this rate is so high because you have a lot of “non teachers’ in the online world (i.e. Subject matter experts rather than trained teachers), or do you think it’s the fault of teachers who are transferring their courses online and using “bricks and mortar” teaching strategies in the online world?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. This was a little wake up call to me as I sit in my little e-Learning world, trying to immerse myself in all that is new. All women.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Presence - Some ways to use presence tools to enhance education: Allow learners to reveal (or conceal) their presence both synchronously and asynchronously. 2, 2005, pp. 17th Biennial Conference of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, 2005. 34 (1) 5-32, 2005-2006. Volume 3: Virtual Worlds.

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What is Online Learning? Brief History, Benefits & Limitations

learnWorlds

Definition of Online Learning Online learning, also referred to as e-learning , digital learning or even sometimes virtual learning, encompasses a broad spectrum of educational activities facilitated through digital technologies. 1990s he advent of the World Wide Web; birth of the modern Internet era.