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The Angry Birds Community: Social Learning Utopia?

Dashe & Thomson

A search for “Angry Bird Walkthroughs” on YouTube returns 18,500 results. That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. By tapping this vast cache of video content, I can quickly learn how to solve each level (once I’ve tried and given up).

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E-Learning 2.0 Research

Experiencing eLearning

Steve Wexler has such a nice, NPR-style voice. I’m enjoying hearing voices of people I’ve been reading and interacting with for a while; it’s a different facet of connection. Users/Learners are empowered to search, create, and collaborate in order to fulfill intrinsic needs to learn new information.&#.

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Learn Informal Learning Informally

Jay Cross

Form an on-going community of practice. The month-long event is appropriate for decision-makers, designers, CLOs, innovation leaders, managers of communications, and others who want to accelerate learning in their organization. The upside is that you’ll receive personal attention and have a voice in selecting what we cover.

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How You Can Engage Your Millennial Workforce – Tips And Learning Strategies That Work

Adobe Captivate

They need constant feedback and instant gratification of their search for knowledge and day-to-day requirements. They like their say to be valued and an environment which encourages them to voice it. This also justifies the fact that they like searching and choosing what they want to watch contrary to watching shows on TV.

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Context + Control + Community = Learning

Breakthrough eLearning

If it is not, I will go into the lesson archive and search for a topic in my beginner level that appeals to me. Almost any information you need to find (including Chinese language resources) is available at your fingertips via a quick Google search. I generally go on to the ChinesePod site once a day. What is missing is context.

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Product Review: Plateau TMS (Talent Management System)

eLearning 24-7

Search box. This is Plateau’s social learning component, and it reminds me of a cross between a COP (Community of Practice) with some social learning functionality. Voice SME (very nice) – connect with SME. The To do List is visible below the labels and is very easy to use. To Do List. Talent Gateway.

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Why Content Curation Should be in Your Skillset

Jay Cross

You expect the curator of an art gallery to know the collection and to: search out the best items. I set up a Google Search for daily news on the topic. and put in search terms and authorities to listen to. Every day I would sift through a hundred or more items suggested by my social networks or the search engines.