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Social media: Prevention is better than cure

E-Learning Provocateur

My previous article, Social media: It’s not about the technology! focused on the internal use of social media by employees to import and share knowledge inside the organisation. This article shifts its focus to the external use of social media by employees to export knowledge outside of the organisation. The big bad wolf.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc. Content providers will wag the long tail. The former is the subject of such disdain.

OER 279
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How to deliver mobile training to millennials and Gen Z

Coassemble

Social media platforms are a great way to deliver mobile training that’s affordable, effective, and fun to use. Though the possibilities are infinite thanks to cloud web development advances, you can deliver mobile training via three methods: Social media platforms Video and audio platforms Online training platforms.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc. Content providers will wag the long tail. The former is the subject of such disdain.

OER 224
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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

They say its about: 5 Trends Converging (3G + Social Networking + Video + VoIP + Impressive Mobile Devices) The growth of mobile devices has been amazing. Yet, there will be lots of eLearning solutions aiming at these alternative platforms. They didn’t really use the language of social learning. Of course, I do.

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

Trends in What L&D Organizations are Doing As a result of these trends, some L&D organizations are looking to social and informal learning. Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. Informal Learning , Communities, Bottom-up vs. Top-Down The whole social / informal / elearning 2.0

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

This is similar to a post I wrote called Social Learning Defined where I argued that there were three models at play simultaneously: socializing existing formal models (top-down), the sharing of information “from the trenches” back to management (bottoms-up) and the sharing of best practices and collaborating (side-to-side). …

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