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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference, presented by Robert Fulkerth, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Past predictions about online communities assumed text because that was what was available. More communities of practice. Will teach with blogs and a wiki.

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The clusterfuck known as social learning

Janet Clarey

And then there are theorists like Etienne Wenger talking about social learning and social learning systems in the context of communities or practice and stewarding technology for communities. From the end of 2008 and on, it really grew some legs. I love that stuff. A trend term.

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Beyond Best Practices

CLO Magazine

Learning in practice happens within a community of practice — a group of like-minded, forward thinkers dedicated to advancing their companies and the industry. A veteran of operations at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, she took the reins of learning and development leadership in 2008.

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Using Social Media to Improve Workplace Learning

Janet Clarey

At the end of the presentation, I tried something different and shared Wordle so we could make a word cloud for two issues: what things make a bad classroom training session and what an ideal online community would look like. and this one “ideal online community&# : Le slides: Using Social Media Tools To Improve Workplace Learning.

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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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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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Troubling Trends in Organizational Networks

Jay Cross

Business Intelligence, CLO magazine, December 2008. For all the talk about networks and knowledge sharing, it appears many organizations aren’t practicing it. In the middle of 2008, a notice appeared on the Informal Learning blog (informl.com) requesting participation in a survey of informal and Web 2.0 learning practices.

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