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Using Facebook as a learning platform

eFront

Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. Facebook makes it easy to network and interact with other virtual students, and because most people know how to use Facebook they don’t need to become familiar with a new platform.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Half of Companies Blocking Facebook

Learning Visions

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Half of Companies Blocking Facebook Christy Tucker has been musing on Social Networking as LMS: Problems and Opportunities. One real problem is corporate fear of social networking tools. In a sense, using facebook for this, is actually (to some extent) more efficient.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

I wanted to go back and figure out what things really struck me during 2007. Getting Value from LinkedIn , Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong! Social networks through my blog or LinkedIn are great ways to get specific help for yourself and for others. I'm going after this just a little bit different.

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Hashtags and CamelCase

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

Support for Hashtags were added to Twitter in 2007, before this they were used but the platform didn’t create links on them for searching and grouping conversations. What I don’t understand though is why the platforms aren’t doing more to encourage the use of camel case in their suggested hashtags.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students.

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Let Learners Sleep on It

Integrated Learnings

For example, researchers from the University of Haifa published a study in Nature Neuroscience in 2007 in which study participants who took a 90-minute nap after learning a task improved their ability to perform the task again later that day. in Germany trained subjects how to solve a math problem using a tedious method.

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SMEs Are Not Instructional Designers

Association eLearning

Guide them by asking about real world scenarios and problems. eLearning design > Top Ten eLearning Design Tips - August 27, 2007. Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn. Your SME knows what learners need to know to be experts, and they are valuable assets in brainstorming the ideal course topics and activities.