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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

An example of using a social networking tool, Ning, in an online class is reported.&#. Focus in this paper on non-content social tools (not Flickr or YouTube). One tool to use: Effective use of VLEs Infokit from JISC. Elgg & Ning as two social networking tools. Case study with Ning. Connect with others.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

What is effective for one person may not be for another. He takes pictures, is starting to do slides, may do YouTube in the future. He forces himself to not have too many interesting things in the “holding pen&# at a time. Delicious: what he uses to save things instead of Bloglines. In the network, good things come back around.

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How to Harness Informal Learning

Rob Hubbard

I might, for example, seek the answer to a question via a Google or YouTube search, Twitter or by tapping into my online networks. a Ning network), using wikis and blogs. Informal learning includes, amongst other things, observing others, asking colleagues, calling the help desk and trial and error. Sounds great, what’s the catch?

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

A cursory look at the ITIL resources available on the Net reveals a wealth of material on YouTube for a start. If you want to get into a bit more detail there is lots of other YouTube instructional material. Alternatives to ILT events The Internet has not only changed the way we communicate but also our concept of 'freely available'.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

However, when we just did this for the LA CTO Forum , we created a LinkedIn group so that members could search profiles and created a private Ning community for discussions, events, and communication. I often find that Ning isn't that great for specialized content. The question mentions "unique content". long answer expected!)

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Social Networking, Informal Learning, Twitter, & Gaming

Big Dog, Little Dog

We are all very familiar with social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. We have new learning environments and tools that enable us to access knowledge more effectively and to share and collaborate in better ways. They are almost household names. Informal learning - the next big thing?

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations.