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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. Why is networking so important anyway? People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. So big deal, you say.

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Connecting Social Learning to e-Learning

dVinci Interactive

Facebook, Twitter and Yammer are becoming more accepted tools in the workplace, due to their mass networking capabilities. As learning consultants, we need to take a tip from the social media craze, and determine ways to leverage it in our online courses. Social media continues to grow worldwide.

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Setting the tone for your online learning community

Logicearth

Learning together as part of this social network is a fundamental foundation of these programmes. This starts with deciding which channel to use; in the workplace, perhaps a familiar internal communications channel, such as Yammer or Teams, is the most logical, as it’s easy for people to access and they are more likely to engage with it.

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Setting the tone for your online learning community

Logicearth

Learning together as part of this social network is a fundamental foundation of these programmes. This starts with deciding which channel to use; in the workplace, perhaps a familiar internal communications channel, such as Yammer or Teams, is the most logical, as it’s easy for people to access and they are more likely to engage with it.

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7 Strategies to Facilitate “Working Out Loud”

Learnnovators

If we critically examine the characteristics of networked learning, it becomes evident that these are also qualities that foster and enable communities to thrive which in turn pull creative, passionate individuals to the workforce. That’s supposed to be the value of the network, right? And I am ok with that.By

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My 15 favourite Australian e-learning bloggers

E-Learning Provocateur

Alison Bickford – Alison is an e-learning consultant with loads of experience in the government and corporate sectors. She extends her consulting wisdom via the Connect Thinking blog and helps other e-learning professionals via the E-Learning Academy. Matt Blackstock – Matt is a learning professional who likes to produce.

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Learning Solutions Series: Social Learning Appealing, but Not Widely Used

InsiderHub

In a nutshell, social learning takes concepts from popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and applies them to workplaces. Overall, the goal is to create a collaborative environment where workers can share content via these social platforms, and that in turn facilitates networking within their work communities.