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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W. Wheeler (Ed.)

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EdCast the Twitter of Education Raises 16 Million in Latest Funding Round

Training Industry

Since most of your employees are using social networking outside of work, it makes sense to use the same type of interactions and technologies when training them. “We We learn more when we learn together,” according to the “Harvard Business Journal,” and social media has likely increased our need for social interaction.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

Indeed, Cheskin’s Davis Masten and Tim Plowman characterized digital ethnography as the next wave in understanding the consumer experience in a Design Management Journal article as early as 2003. Related posts: Watchitoo combines asynchronous video. Planning to implement informal learning? Ideologies influence.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Where we are today: Primary forms of social learning technologies used in corporations today appear to be e-mail, live online learning (Web conferencing), threaded discussion, and collaborative content development. Social media, in general, is misunderstood in many organizations. British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol.