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Using Facebook as a learning platform

eFront

Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. It’s also relatively easy to create apps for Facebook, making it a great canvas for developers to add cool new functionality and get users involved pretty quickly.

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Instructional designers would be wise to become versed in basic video production, since its utility and ubiquity as a learning tool will only continue to grow. Here’s a quick primer on video as a learning tool from Learning Solutions Magazine. I think social learning must be informal and fun. tool chest. Properly d.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 5

Upside Learning

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. How To Revamp Your Learning Model. There’s a lot of talk these days about informal learning vs. formal learning.

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Evaluating Facebook and Twitter for e-Learning

eFront

Facebook and Twitter. YouTube for example, which started as a repository of mostly music videos, cat clips and “video blogs”, has turned into an excellent educational resource, teaching hundreds of millions of people lessons in cooking mousaka, playing the flute and everything in between.

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What Hooks Learners to eLearning?

Origin Learning

Workplace learning isn’t much different, when interactive games are successfully integrated within the eLearning content, learner engagement improves significantly. It also improves course-completion rates and retention of learning. Videos are the most popular way to learn. The Social Learning Gamble.

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Top 11 Learning Technology Trends from LTSF 2019

Leo Learning

LEO Learning recently attended Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2019 at the ExCeL in London. The one-day event is a follow-up to Learning Technologies, Europe’s biggest L&D expo, and saw LEO Learning exhibiting alongside sister companies PeopleFluent, gomo and Instilled LXP. 10 + 11) What Next?

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Top 11 Learning Technology Trends from LTSF 2019

gomo learning

We recently attended Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2019 at the ExCeL in London. The one-day event is a follow-up to Learning Technologies, Europe’s biggest L&D expo, and saw gomo exhibiting alongside sister companies LEO Learning, Instilled LXP and PeopleFluent. Top Learning Technology Trends of 2019.