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Three Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

Build a Community. There’s no reason why you couldn’t use Twitter to help facilitate a community of practice. The real value in social media is in community building where you’re able to connect people who share similar interests and get them to exchange ideas. And Twitter is great for that. And Twitter is great for that.

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Through the Workscape Looking Glass

Jay Cross

Theoretically, your Workscape — the realm where you’ll be wielding your influence on performance and learning — could stretch way beyond your firewall to include nearly everyone the organization interacts with. Activity stream keeps one up to date. Communities of Practice. Reading the temperature. Access to information.

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4 Secrets No One Will Tell You When Choosing Your Microlearning Platform

Obsidian Learning

Taken together, that means you’d like a single system for storing and tracking content and learner activity, and that system should reside behind a firewall with at least one and possibly more login requirements to prevent unauthorized eyeballs on sensitive information. Easy to access.

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The Coherent Organization

Jay Cross

These networks operate behind the firewall (e.g., the corporate activity stream) and outside it (e.g. They can be personal or professional on either side of the firewall (for example, the company football pool or machinists who support Obama’s re-election). the eLearning Guild).

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Workers are frustrated with corporate training because outside the firewall they have better equipment, enjoy unrestricted access to the riches of the Internet, and find it easier to network with friends and acquaintances. Feeds, Tweets, streams. Apply the 80/20 rule to critical functions and seed communities of practice around them.