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Alternatives to Facebook Groups

LearnDash

Should you be using Facebook Groups to supplement your online course? Recently one of the more common questions I have seen asked of us is whether there are any alternatives to using Facebook Groups for the community portion of an online course. Why do we use Facebook Groups for course community building?

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21 of The Best Facebook Group Alternatives

Thinkific

For the last nearly two decades we have been all too familiar with Facebook acting as a homebase for interacting… The post 21 of The Best Facebook Group Alternatives appeared first on Thinkific.

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The big myth of social networking

E-Learning Provocateur

A little while ago, someone tweeted his awe of the fact that over 600 million people are connected to each other on the one platform, ie Facebook. Whether Facebook adds anything to the equation is questionable. Whether Facebook adds anything to the equation is questionable. Take Madonna for example. The point is connectedness.

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Using Facebook for ELearning

LearnDash

Today we have a large variety of tools available to us for social learning, the most notable being front-runners Facebook and Twitter. The Good: Facebook is such a widely used platform that most everyone will have an account, so it become easy to network and interact with other virtual students.

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Top 31 Online Tools You Need For Your Facebook Ads Campaigns

learnWorlds

There is a successful recipe for tapping social media that can get you more website traffic, brand awareness, and eventually more leads, and customers. It’s called Facebook Ads. While your organic Facebook traffic may bring some customers to your site, the real deal-maker comes with paid advertising. 1 Facebook Ads Management.

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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

It might be unnerving to think about being a guinea pig for a medical student learning to draw blood in the supervised “do one&# phase, but what is the alternative? Shoving the med student into a room with a patient and basket of supplies and leaving them to learn by trial and error sounds much worse to me. Properly d.

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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.