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Making Connections: Trends in Social Learning

Obsidian Learning

Building on the concept of communities of practice , Etienne Wenger (2009) has proposed a social theory of learning. The focus of this theory is “learning as social participation,” in which learners actively participate in the practices of social communities and construct personal identities in relation to these communities.

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

You’re alone in front of your computer, in the middle of an online learning session, and it doesn’t involve any human interaction, either with a teacher or with other learners. Are you likely to interact with your computer as if you were social partners, as you would with your peers in a traditional classroom?

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The clusterfuck known as social learning

Janet Clarey

Anyway, here’s the quote: “learning through the use of social media is a set of implicit assumptions that if people are using something called “social media&# , then “social learning&# must be taking place. The “social learning&# hits that follow are primarily bloggers.

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Jane’s Pick of the Day is back

Jane Hart

Every day from April 2006 until December 2011 I wrote a short blog post about a new learning tool or resource. Back then I called it Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day when the term e-learning was still pretty new. Social learning' Jane’s Pick of the Day is back – by popular demand!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Interview with Tony Karrer on Informal and Social Learning

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, October 01, 2009 Interview with Tony Karrer on Informal and Social Learning Be sure to listen to the latest Kineo podcast with Dr. Tony Karrer. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.

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How To Create an Interactive Learning School and Engage Your Learners

learnWorlds

“In the social learning system, new patterns of behavior can be acquired through direct experience or by observing the behavior of others.”, Social Learning Theory, Bandura A., How To Create an Interactive Learning School and Engage Your Learners. An Ecology of Learning. Manage and Control your Community.

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Wikis and Learning – 60 Resources

Tony Karrer

So, of course, I went to eLearning Learning and I looked at Wiki , Collaborative Learning with Wikis , Wikis and eLearning 2.0 , Wikis Corporate eLearning , Social Learning with Wikis , Wiki Security and a few others. I wanted to collect a few resources around this topic for use in these discussions.

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