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Maximizing Your Learning Experience with Social Learning Apps

Instancy

Learners can design one or more learning communities with a built-in site editor. Each learning community can include social components such as discussion forums, expert and peer listings, learning activity feeds, and more. Each community can be “public” and open for everyone or “private” and accessible by invitation.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

E-Learning Provocateur

In terms of supporting the moocers in the organisation, I envisage L&D pro’s undertaking activities such as facilitating communities of practice, setting up buddy programs, and organising external meetups. Does the company have an ethical responsibility to help the community through MOOCs? Networking. Mining big data.

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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice. Administrative vision and planning are critical.

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Top of Mind: Experimenting with Social Physics

CLO Magazine

Social physics may prove incredibly powerful for both classroom and virtual channels, and potentially even for communities of practice, digital coaching, mentorship initiatives, longer-term/cross-channel leadership development programs and more. We won’t know for sure until we try, but all signs point to meaningful impact.

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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

As Manjoo notes, some have expressed privacy concerns over Slack’s ability to archive employee chats. Here at Obsidian, we use both email and messaging ( Skype ) for inter-office communication, a combination that works just fine for us as a small, woman-owned business. That sounds good. And maybe (sometimes) not.

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Interesting Information via eLearning Learning

Tony Karrer

We've implemented a few features in the eLearning Learning Community. Below are some of the bloggers who are participating in the community and when you click on the link, it will show you the community page with them selected. You can see the first feature by visiting the site and clicking around on terms.

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Yammer

Jay Cross

If you’re assembling a far-flung collaborative team or bringing together a community of practice, here’s a way to help people stay connected. The privacy of each network is ensured by limiting access to those with a valid company email address. Yammer is like a private Twitter. The basic Yammer service is free.

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