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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). In an effort to bridge the time and distance gap, he started making 10-minute videos of math lessons and posting them on YouTube.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

Dashe & Thomson

They might even jot down a few notes that you can reference the next time you troubleshoot that widget problem. So, here’s my leap from that “over-the-partition” informal learning scenario to how social media can support social learning: YouTube (in other words, video learning). and to hear, “I’ll show you.”

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. Properly d. Properly d.

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Need YouTube Video Ideas? Where You Need to Look for Inspiration

TechSmith Camtasia

In this post, I’ll share the tactics I use to come up with great YouTube video ideas for my audience. Whatever the purpose of your video, your number one priority must be to find YouTube video ideas that are relevant to your audience. In my case, my YouTube Channel growth is an important goal. YouTube search.

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How to Make A Thousand Training Videos for YouTube FAST (Customer Story)

TechSmith Camtasia

The Problem. The problem was that he was tasked with creating training videos and video tutorials in a very short amount of time. Using YouTube for training. The following tips will help you optimize your YouTube videos and make sure your users can easily find the right content. Tips for creating “findable” videos.

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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. Facebook makes it easy to network and interact with other virtual students, and because most people know how to use Facebook they don’t need to become familiar with a new platform.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. Navy intends to sit back and watch what unfolds, taking advantage of thousands of minds to generate innovative approaches to a real-world problem. As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S. Essentially, the U.S. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!