Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2010

Two articles that have caught my eye deal with social software in education, and both have landed on my desk in the last few weeks. If you're interested in the impact blogs, wikis and social networking can have on the social and cultural dimensions of education, then take a read of them. Keywords: social software; Web 2.0;

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals.” This is common in open source community. Build communities that people want to join – that are interesting. Tags: web 2.0 Challenges to core assumptions: how work gets done, how people get on with each other.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2008

Social software tools are overwhelming in number and scope, but applications are becoming friendlier and can be used to build communities. e-portolios), and interoperability across platforms (e.g. When we are using social software, who needs protection? e-portfolios) access to materials (e.g. e-portfolios!).

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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Janet Clarey

JANUARY 2, 2009

A: Ben Willis- Saba has had social & collaborative capabilities in our product suite for a very long while (since 2004 and the 3.x Saba Social is a productivity tool designed to engage employees & customers, build connected corporate communities and accelerate high-quality knowledge exchange. x generation of the suite).

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 16, 2007

Other conclusions included the comment that metatagging when used outside of a community of practice or interest may make no sense to anyone else. New methods of metatagging are needed to ensure cross-operability of platforms, and portability of digital objects between sites. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Janet Clarey

JANUARY 23, 2009

By way of background, Jeff told me that OutStart has two flavors: Participate, their general social software solution and TrainingEdge.com, their SaaS solution which includes LMS, collaborative authoring, and social media specifically configured to support learning. Communities, blogs, and wikis are just the start.

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