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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. This is particularly evident on a cursory inspection of any social web space, whether it be Facebook, Snapchat or any other popular free space.

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DevLearn ‘09 Keynote: Andrew McAfee #dl09

Learning Visions

. #1 was Mark Zuckerberg founder of facebook). is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals.” Innovation. Merck lab puts up the problem statement. Anyone from around the world can download that problem statement. Merck looks at the problem. is a bad idea!

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

The problem lies not in this goal, but how learning vendors are choosing to get there. Dan Pontefract, in his most excellent post The Standalone LMS is Dead makes the following argument: “Set up your ‘Facebook for the organization’ by embedding an LMS (or LMS like features) into your enterprise-wide collaboration platform.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

IBM describes socially networked corporations as the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company say collaboration and collective intelligence are the engines of innovation. Many companies rely on Facebook, Twitter, and other consumer applications to connect their people.

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My top 10 favourite resources from February

Jane Hart

If a department is not part of the networked workflow, or tries to block it, it is part of the problem.” What we’re witnessing is a bottom-up revolution in education: Learners, not institutions, are leading innovation. Departmental P&L budget buckets equals parochial thinking around problem solving.”

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

They are rewarded for delighting customers in innovative and non-routine ways. Goofing off, Facebook, the football pool. Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job. Future, innovation. Workers collaborate to solve problems and come up with fresh thinking.