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How Mobile Apps Can Act as Social Learning Tools

Origin Learning

Instant messaging, e-mails, texts, social media interactions- all of these have become an inseparable part of our lives ever since the smartphone revolution has taken place. We use apps like Whatsapp , Facebook , Pinterest , Twitter and Quora all the time. Social learning and mobile learning have a lot in common. Native Apps.

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Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models

Tony Karrer

While Twitter is asynchronous, it's not easily used as other kinds of tools for discussion. The standard model for asynchronous conversations is discussion forum software like vBulletin. I also looked at Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective. This organization makes the conversation seem more like a roundtable discussion.

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5 Tips on Virtual Employee Culture and Engagement in 2021

SkyPrep

The use of virtual communication tools is great and pretty much essential when establishing engagement and culture, whether it is just to chat via instant message or have video conferences. Share, Centralize and Discuss Your Organization’s Knowledge.

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Sparking Innovation in Your eLearning Design

Integrated Learnings

In some situations, we can set an expectation that email and instant messaging must be off during training. Fortunately, we can prompt learners to reflect through individual activities, confidence measures, and insightful discussions. You might also be interested in our page on Facebook or Twitter feed.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

A wiki is a discussion. Short Text Messaging. Text message that are short bursts sent from a cell phone or a computer directly to another cell phone or computer. Instant messaging is the ability to write a quick message to another person and enter into a dialogue in real-time via only text-based messages.

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5 Online Employee Training Tools Every Company Needs to Succeed

KnowledgeCity

With Basecamp’s project management features, employees can have both focused and casual discussions around the virtual campfire, which may relieve some stress throughout the day. Slack serves as an instant messaging platform with a large number of add-ons for other business products.

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5 Blended Learning Activities to Consider for Memorable Corporate eLearning Courses

eFront

Discuss a specific skill that employees require in the workplace, and then encourage them to participate in a branching scenario. Typically, webinars are held through web conferencing software that features instant messaging tools. Most social media sites also have built-in feedback tools, such as Facebook and YouTube polls.