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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

Here at Obsidian, we use both email and messaging ( Skype ) for inter-office communication, a combination that works just fine for us as a small, woman-owned business. We’ve written before about using collaborative technology to build a learning culture and foster employee engagement. What do you think?

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

Recently I have been considering the changing role of teachers who are adopting technology to extend the walls of the classroom. In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators.

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How to Create a Successful Community of Practice

CrossKnowledge

<div class=”page-chapo”>Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise.</div> How do communities of practice work?

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How to Create a Successful Community of Practice

CrossKnowledge

Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise. The theory around communities of practice was developed by Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave in the early 1990s.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Skype gives people the ability to place free video calls over the Net. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Unmanaged technologies introduce security risks.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Communities of Practice! I didn’t have much time to ‘read all about it’ when I was up to my eyeballs in training people on a new technology. Innovation involves a “New Thing&# >>> Adoption is the decision to use it >>> Implementation is the effective use of the innovation.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Adoption Council , founded by Susan Scrupski. Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0 - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2010 With the recent launch of InGenius by SkillSoft, I believe it’s time again to raise a pretty important question: Where do Social Learning Tools belong? in their respective organization.