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The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals. Very informative for the e-Learning community!

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Open scholarship

Learning with e's

There is much talk about openness in education. Most of us by now are familiar with open learning , and many could describe their use of open source software such as Moodle, Mahara, Linux and Open Office. How many though, are familiar with the concept of open scholarship? Knowledge is like love.

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May 2011 Review

Jane Hart

Roles in communities of practice , Joitske Hulsebosc, Lasagna and chips, 9 May 2011. Yet another reason I haven’t been blogging is that I have been spending a lot of time in my two new communities: The Social Learning Community on Yammer, and the Share&Learn collaboration platform I set up using open source software.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

Such tools are in fact large and complex networked systems, and are very expensive to buy if they are proprietary, and very time and labour intense if they are open source. Is your school community ready to adopt new practices or will they resist? Are your staff on board with this idea? Leave the store.

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10 free social learning platforms

Ed App

Concepts such as the community of practice espouse that learning occurs as individuals in any endeavor participate in their task with peers and a competent teacher. It is a platform for learning communities to connect with each other online. Some function exclusively as tools to bridge social communities, such as ePals.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 7, 2019

Mike Taylor

Build Communities—Invite Those on the Edges. In Jane Bozarth’s ( @JaneBozarth ) latest Nuts & Bolts article on Communities of Practice, she talks about trajectories and the life of groups including some good points on why most struggle to survive beyond the initial launch and tips for making them better.

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Do you brag about your personal learning network?

The Learning Circuits

We can explain communities of practice without once using the phrase "well, no, that's not really an example of what i'm talking about."! Maybe you're having trouble convincing your boss that her task force is not a community of practice. Except maybe they don't. Do you document successes of social learning ?

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