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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

Social networks on the other hand are online groups of people who are acquainted or connected as friends, business contacts, or colleagues and use social software tools to stay in touch. Read more: The power of the spoken word: including podcasts in training. Communities of practice focus on a subject.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

Later, as an education academic I collaborated with several medical scientists to write position papers in a range of technology applications in bioscience and medicine. Maged is a prolific researcher and writer, and it was a privilege to collaborate with him on some of the most seminal medical technology papers of the last two decades.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. geotagging).

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CONCEDE Project

Learning with e's

Students are using social networking sites to post up their content, including text, images and links they would like to keep and share. In more formalised education settings, there is a proliferation in the use of wikis and other collaborative shared spaces. or social software services, please consider completing this survey.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

collaboration 8. Building community in an online learning environment: communication, cooperation and collaboration 16. 1) " EduTech gEEks.We're a new brEEd Still new on campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication 17.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine)

Mark Oehlert

" March 26, 2008 in Application Becomes the Platform | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed. books futures Web 2.0

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 My Top 25 blogs for 2008 Blogging as Reflective Practice The Elearning Apprentice Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI. Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: Tools - A Summary PR 2.0: