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MOOC Major Players

LearnDash

The MOOC landscape is taking shape , and just like social networking sites before it, the major players are starting to emerge. 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.

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Employee Spotlight : Kat Bajno-Atkinson

OpenSesame

I had my first taste of programming in fifth grade when I taught myself how to modify HTML & CSS to make MySpace layouts. I stopped programming over the years and got more into graphic design. We work closely and spend most of our days pair programming, whiteboarding, or tackling an issue together.

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The new workplace

Jay Cross

They’ve converted a few programs but they’ve failed to improve their learning ecosystems. Today we all grapple with complexity’s outpouring of unpredictability, volatility, emergence, and uncertainty. Young people who grew up with Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia, and Google are entering the workforce.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Top Posts in 2007

Learning Visions

Instead, I cracked open Google Analytics and pulled up my top 5 posts for the year (well, my top posts since September 1 when I started using Google Analytics): The Real World, Second Life, and Facebook/MySpace : Over the summer, I conducted a series of interviews with over 20 current college students and recent graduates. All female.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/04/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Learners, on the other hand, already have their personal spaces (myspace, facebook, aggregators). They don't want to go to someone else's program to experience content. Signs of the emerging knowledge economy - Eclectic Bill. These organizations want learners to access their sites for content/interaction/knowledge.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Blogging Dinner Table

Learning Visions

I think the answer is that theyre all on FaceBook and MySpace. Perhaps because thats me, and I like being trendy (well, not really). Brian asks, "Though I am curious as to why the 18-30 year old segment is not better represented?" I did a interview with a twentysomething the other day, and thought her online habits were somewhat revealing.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Gin System

Learning Visions

In the case of an emergency, they can text message every parent at the same time. A private elementary school is using it to communicate with teachers and parents. A preschool has signed up -- they liked the text messaging option as a way to globally broadcast messages.