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What Millennials Want from Member Education

Association eLearning

What type of education offerings does the incoming generation want and how is what they want different from other generations? At first, my computer only included educational games (my mom was a bit of a hippie and opposed the violent and competitive games my friends were playing). Association Chat (@assnchat) June 3, 2014.

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Change Our Traditional Approach to Education

Kapp Notes

And adding technology hardware is not enough, the next wave in engineering and technology education is to leverage the connectivity of the third millennials and their aptitude for creating content to share with others via web-based and mobile-based social networking tools. Tags: Education.

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TCC08: What can Educators Learn from Online Religious Communities?

Experiencing eLearning

The seminar raised a question about whether online religious communities could be a model for online educational experiences. Used MySpace & a wiki. Chose MySpace b/c lots of existing religious tools available (e.g., Also explored specifically Christian sites, but secular sites like MySpace may offer better options.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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MOOC Major Players

LearnDash

It’s still too early to tell which one of these will fall the way of MySpace, but as Facebook has pointed out, there is often very little room at the top. Udacity – This MOOC option has decided to work with individual professors rather than educational institutions.

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Daily Bookmarks 06/25/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. tags: socialnetworking , education , 21stcenturyskills , research , k-12. Social networks ‘teaching tech skills’ - vnunet.com. When asked what they learn by using social networking sites, the students.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Right now, this is “Tier 1″ Proprietary with some customization (like Facebook & MySpace). YouTube–lots of educational resources. Lines between social networking and formal education will blur. Social networking is driven by the desire of people to “demonstrate themselves&#. Owned by major companies.