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Maximizing Your Learning Experience with Social Learning Apps

Instancy

Integrated with eLearning and Classroom Learning Integrating stand-alone social applications with a Learning Management System can be a challenge. Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

E-Learning Provocateur

While Coursera and others offer MOOCs covering business and management topics that are relevant across the enterprise, it’s important to realise that other topics (such as statistics, law and IT) may also be relevant to particular teams. Quality content, for free, from some of the world’s most respected educational institutions?

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Top of Mind: Experimenting with Social Physics

CLO Magazine

Allison Horn is the managing director of learning and leadership development at Accenture. 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.

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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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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

This makes Slack a powerful tool for managing knowledge and understanding team dynamics. As Manjoo notes, some have expressed privacy concerns over Slack’s ability to archive employee chats. And we’ve also looked at using social learning to build communities of practice and personal learning networks.

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Windmills on the mind

Learning with e's

Someone remarked that there are complex and comprehensive privacy and copyright rules in the user agreements in most social networking systems, but no-one ever reads them. Other conclusions included the comment that metatagging when used outside of a community of practice or interest may make no sense to anyone else.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

This is something that gets discussed as emergent: see Emergent Knowledge Management , Direction of eLearning - Emergence or Big System , and Future Platforms for eLearning. Selling the Value Often it can be tricky to convince management of the value of providing these tools. Privacy / Confidentiality - Limit the visibility.

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