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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. Learning and development professionals should remember the Weak Ties theory when designing social learning systems. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing.

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

The concept is more than just a buzzword and is now increasingly used by forward-thinking organizations to foster collaborative learning and its application in the flow of work to drive organizational performance and the effectiveness of L&D activities. Simply speaking, people learn by example and by direct experiences.

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3 Ways To Get ‘More’ Out Of Your LMS Training Delivery

Upside Learning

The most common (and generic) example of User Generated Content being used for learning is the Wikipedia (today, Wikis are a part of an LMS too). As additional reading, I suggest you go through a post we had written a while back but holds true today as well – Learning and Social Networks.

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Easy peasy ways to apply social learning for effective online learning

ProProfs

Sometimes, it can be difficult for management to train and educate new employees , especially when it comes to online learning. However, organization wikis have shown up as a great way of sharing the most important info with the learners. 5: Let your team know their social learning matters. Why is this so important?

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Tony Karrer

How can you apply them to your existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? So, yes, learning professionals must learn and use these tools, and then apply the tools to there existing framework. Nobody cared about wikis until wikipedia came along.

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What is Open edX and What is the Best Alternative?

Appsembler

Rather that using edX.org to create and submit their own courses, organizations can host and deploy their own branded instance of edX tailored specifically for their own online learning or training needs. Course authors are also able to include their own wiki, or textbook-style elements that can be uploaded as a PDF file.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: e-Learning Guild Synchronous Learning Systems

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, July 10, 2007 e-Learning Guild Synchronous Learning Systems e-Learning Guild presentation on Synchronous Learning Systems hosted by Steve Wexler, Karen Hyder, and Karl Kapp. You are a fast typer.