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

Dashe & Thomson

These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

Or in 2005, before Facebook became open to the public? However, if I am providing a statistic or a piece of information that is not considered common knowledge for my audience, then sources are required. Train your learners to look for a “sponsored” or “paid content” tag when looking for sources.

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Research to Practice: Games and Simulations

Kapp Notes

Baylor and Kim (2005) report that in multiple studies with avatars of different gender and race, evidence indicates that students learned significantly more and had significantly greater motivation when working with one motivator and a different expert avatar as compared to working with the just the one mentor avatar. Reference: Baylor, A.

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Making Connections: Trends in Social Learning

Obsidian Learning

George Siemens (2005) has proposed a learning theory called connectivism. This theory extends learning to include knowledge gained by means of informal networks among people and from digital information available online. Tagging allows precise searching for information. Here are some possibilities. and Social Learning.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 12/18/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

As FC Now reader Shel Holtz points out, the science journal Nature posted an article yesterday about a study comparing Wikipedia to Encyclopedia Britannica. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2005 Results - New Release. Much like a Wikipedia entry, our discussion of the online encyclopedia is nothing if not dynamic. This is an $8.7

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Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace

Janet Clarey

The “younger” generation does not have a high level of use of collaborative knowledge creation tools (“2.0”) and don’t adopt radically different patterns of knowledge creation and sharing. My arguments primarily revolve around the knowledge worker - those who work with information. tags: generations learning ).

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Games trainers play" (Washington Business Journal)

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Of General Interest to Edupatents | Main | Spyware Alert - Thx to DArcy Norman » April 18, 2007 "Games trainers play" (Washington Business Journal) Question: How self-referential can one get in blogging before you cross into the Dark Side? Great post!

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