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Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The questions prompt quite a lively and interesting discussion among online community members. In a recent post What Makes a Successful Community Manager? I think the community manager can also support and facilitate on-demand learning and performance and will be pivotal in it’s success.

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Giving Back to Your Personal Learning Network

InSync Training

Almost 20 years ago, I started InSync’s first learning community. The focus was on virtual classrooms, called ‘synchronous’ classrooms back then. It was a listserv called “SyncTrain” (Synchronous Training) with the following tag line: “Get on the Sync Train!”.

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My History of Live Blogged Notes

Experiencing eLearning

Synchronous Learning. Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions. Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why? Learning Communities. E-Learning Communities. Wikis that Work: Effective Wiki Practices for Virtual Learning Communities. What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

We are moving, albeit in fits and starts, from traditional learning environments, where curriculum are essentially assigned to learners, to more collaborative and innovative environments where learners can self-direct their learning and participate in communities of passion. Of course, when I saw this question, I had to try to answer it.

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

Based on seminar where doctoral students created online community projects. The seminar raised a question about whether online religious communities could be a model for online educational experiences. Used wiki for communication with a church small group. Didn’t really create a sense of community. Sue Phillips.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

Dashe & Thomson

the world’s most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch, and share originally-created videos.” Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Guess who else is getting in the social media game? To connect people with information that matters to them. Properly d.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

As most of us in the adult learning community already know, up to this point most workplaces have seen two types of learning: formal learning through training, and informal learning through experience, conversation or random events which, according to research, accounts for about 80% of total learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.