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Should You Use Social Media in Your Course?

LearnDash

A look at the advantages, disadvantages, and underlying purpose of social media in the classroom. Social media is among the most prominent of these resources , and there’s a strong temptation for many online educators to find creative ways to use it in their course. Networking for new and old learners alike. Course bloat.

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10 Social Media Learning Platforms

Ed App

Social media learning platforms are currently rising in popularity, especially in the world of marketing training. This article will give you a selection of social media learning platforms that you can use to level up the skills and knowledge of your digital marketers, and increase your business presence online.

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Social media for trainers: think differently!

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The topic was: social media as learning instrument. I started with a line up: from no engagement with social media to intensive engagement. Only a few were using social media intensively and only one had followed the hashtag #tvt12 before the conference. With social media you can brew a powerful mix.

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About serial mastery and social media

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

After this introduction, we did a line-up exercise with the participants who were asked to what extent they consider themselves "new learners". The second part of the session was about how social media can play a role to support the new learning / self-directed learning in the context of 'serial mastery'.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Last year we've experimented with various social media to improve a sharing event for about 100 participants (for more details see my older blogpost ). This is not too difficult when all your participants are social media adepts, you announce your hashtags and off they go. So how can you still use social media?

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Social Media & Learning, HTML 5, Brain Training, & Wikis

Big Dog, Little Dog

Spies, Twitter and gardening: social media meets learning - Donald H Taylor in Corporate Training. The best memory enhancer is exercise, Snyder says. For more on exercise and the brain, see " Fit Body, Fit Mind? '] Secondarily, a good diet and an active social life have brain benefits. Scientific American.

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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

expo (part of the time with fellow miscreant Jay Cross ), and it led me to think a bit more about social media tools and approaches. We were prompted to visit Blue Kiwi , which is probably the leading European social media platform. I spent yesterday touring the Web 2.0 I’m still wrestling with this.