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Adopting Digital Game-based Learning: Why and How

Upside Learning

I’ve just finished writing a basic paper on adopting DGBL (digital game-based learning). If you liked this paper, please recommend it on your blog, twitter feed, and social bookmarking service. This new audience will demand more engaging learning and the organization needs to provide it.

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eLearning Cyclops: Deconstructing My #DemoFest Course - Part 1

eLearning Cyclops

Social Media included Twitter, Screenr videos, and Diigo social bookmarks. Limited staff participation in the social media elements, specifically Twitter. Due to the less-than-expected use of Twitter among staff, there was less participation in the social media elements. Jeff Goldman.

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Tools Used

Clark Quinn

Twitter adoption is higher than I would have thought. Some things that jumped out at me: Clearly Education is ahead of Corporate adoption, otherwise the numbers are fairly well aligned. Then to compare with adoption by people in Government. Government is much more like Education in adoption than Corporations.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

Whether in a classroom setting, via an online course or otherwise, the resident subject matter expert (SME) within the organisation typically provides the learner with a programmed sequence of knowledge, carefully scaffolding their learning and – to adopt a cognitivist view – construct a basic framework of knowledge in the learner’s mind.

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eLearning Cyclops: Making It Over The Wall #LCBQ

eLearning Cyclops

Social media provides access to an immense amount of informal learning and direct access to experts outside the organization walls. My advice, be patient, keep encouraging its adoption, tout the positive results and give it time to catch on. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. My New Social Bookmarking Tool.

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Models for Learning Questions

Tony Karrer

I recommend adopting their tools and their security mechanisms. Yammer (internal twittering) is almost impossible to explain to someone who has no experience with any social networking (and probably not with anything more than email lists). Twitter/Yammer is something new. Many of the suggestions in Learning 2.0

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Hot topics in Working Smarter for the past 12 months

Jay Cross

How to use Twitter for Social Learning - Social Media for Working & Learning , March 20, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. What to do and 6 major alternatives for social bookmarking.