The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning. eLearning Coach: You were an early adopter of using social technologies for learning purposes. eLearning Coach: What are your criteria for defining a technology as social ?

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 15, 2010

You have probably been bombarded with lots of social learning surveys over the past few weeks. But to understand the topic, you first have to understand the basics – social media. Because without it, you cannot have social learning. In order for social learning to exist you need to have the following: social media plus e-learning. And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just social networking. Del.icio.us

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Be sure to do additional research and comparison with similar products prior to making a selection as this is just a small sampling. Category: Social Networking Platform. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform.

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eLearning 24-7

OCTOBER 15, 2010

You have probably been bombarded with lots of social learning surveys over the past few weeks. But to understand the topic, you first have to understand the basics – social media. Because without it, you cannot have social learning. In order for social learning to exist you need to have the following: social media plus e-learning. And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just social networking. Del.icio.us

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization? Identifying the IT social media users and doing some initial legwork for them could help. She presents a matrix that shows the types of learning that can occur through the use of varied social media tools, such as blogs, presentations and podcasts. This important resource is a rather convincing testament to the ways people learn through social media.

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eLearning 24-7

APRIL 29, 2010

Social media types with examples. New social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page&# under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. With the exception of crowdsourcing, all other social media types can be used in social learning. Social Bookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.us

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eLearning 24-7

JULY 13, 2010

Vendors and sadly, companies who purchase their products, believe that since someone can open up their web browser and click to view pages, they can figure it out. Time is short, productivity must remain high, even after the end of the recession. That said, some big dogs have focused and thus created products geared towards the plus 1,000 or 5,000 employees that their solution does not offer the necessary features and capabilities to penetrate effectively into the market.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2010

As social learning continues to grow, LMS/LCMS vendors are taking various approaches. While some view themselves as “social learning&# savvy, incorporating various components, others seem to see themselves as just sitting on the sidelines. LMS/LCMS vendors are following one of three approaches when it comes to social learning. Dip their feet in it – just a bit, a little here, a little there – oh and call it a full social learning platform.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. They like to share their ideas, and they enjoy playing their part in the production of knowledge.

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Your Training Edge

JUNE 10, 2013

and the rapid rise of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other communications platforms have made one thing abundantly clear: Everything is social. As the workforce grows to include more Millennials – digital natives who spend nearly four hours per day on social networking sites – the social impact on training cannot be overstated. Social bookmarking. Social bookmarks can be shared publicly or they can be limited to a specific set of users.

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Mark Oehlert

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Small Basket of MindMapping Items | Main | Small Basket of Virtual World Items » February 28, 2008 Facebbok apps now work on other sites.what is the hard part to figure out here? A few weeks ago, a story came out about how Facebook will allow apps built for Facebook to work on other Web sites. Blends and extends the power of a social network outside of the Web site of that network.

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Web-based tools for scheduling, project management and documentation increase productivity and enhance personal mobility. Online image editors and other multimedia production tools provide access to a host of new and often less expensive applications. Steaming media services, like Amazon S3, make it easy to store and deliver large media files. Open Source software products for eLearning, for which the source code is freely available, are becoming widely accepted.

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The eLearning Coach

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Social Media. Because the iPad can connect through Wi-Fi and 3G (depending on the model) and has a screen size that makes text legible, it’s ideal for mobile social media activities. Users of social iPhone apps, like Facebook Mobile, LinkedIn, TweetDeck and Seesmic, will have an easy time integrating the iPad into their social media universe. Share this on Facebook. Share this on del.icio.us.

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eLearning Weekly

AUGUST 1, 2009

the use of social media and social networking tools in a business setting, is having a major impact on how employees learn and share information. is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility."

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Organizations invest in learning initiatives because they have a business need; sell more product, keep employees safe to reduce liability, increase market share. Designers need to get their heads out of the design books and into other media to see how its done outside the field. Coach: How do you think social media and newer technologies will converge in the learning space in the next 5-10 years? While being more engaging and productive than our current 2D paradigms.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

So without further set, I’m happy to announce the Top Posts as defined by Social Filtering - meaning by everyone involved directly or indirectly in eLearning Learning. Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources , Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009. Should Educators be Afraid of Having a Facebook Profile? Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources - Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 6, 2010

Ideally, workplace learning improves employee productivity and value and enhances self-directed learning. As social media technologies for learning become increasingly important to organizations and to individuals, instructional designers will need to focus on broad learning events and strategies that incorporate many approaches rather than on individual courses. Provide for the effective implementation of instructional products and programs. Share this on Facebook.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

That puts designers and developers of learning products in a tough position. Build community through social technologies for learning. Implement a social media strategy as part of a learning experience. Use social networking applications and services to build groups with a common interest or goal. “This course will help you become more productive with your time, probably saving you 20 minutes every day. 10 Social Media Tools For Learning.

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The eLearning Coach

JANUARY 14, 2010

That puts designers and developers of learning products in a tough position. Build community through social technologies for learning. Implement a social media strategy as part of a learning experience. Use social networking applications and services to build groups with a common interest or goal. “This course will help you become more productive with your time, probably saving you 20 minutes every day. 10 Social Media Tools For Learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2009

This morning I received an email asking… How are people using social software to support learning? I think most of us agree that there is an important social dimension to learning. But in what ways do social software applications such as LinkedIn and FaceBook help people to learn? Social tagging systems like del.icio.us So, how are people using social media to enhance their own and their group’s learning? Just fooling.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 7, 2010

Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises - Performance Learning Productivity , June 18, 2010 I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. Today I was on a panel about social learning. No matter what anyone tells you, no one really has a clue how to “do&# social in the enterprise. Introduction to Social Networking. Social Bookmarks.

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The eLearning Coach

MARCH 8, 2010

Audacity is an audio recording and editing application with a lot of the features you find in commercial products. By the way, their Lifestream product looks interesting too. It’s a way to broadcast and get updates with AIM buddies from all your social media. It’s a cross-platform media converter that can pull DVD video and convert it to MPEG-4. VLC Media Player. VLC might be the media player you’re looking for.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Last week I did a webinar with Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks - Tapping the Social Grid. The crux of the talk was: Why being able to tap into the social grid is important for concept workers. A few of the tools and methods I use to tap into the social grid. Other Ways to Tap into the Social Grid In the session, I discussed the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging as my primary tools for tapping into the social grid. Facebook. Facebook.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 17, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Mobile 2.0 In sales of both videos and recorded music—in many ways the perfect products to test the long-tail theory—we see that hits are and probably will remain dominant. Elberses quanitative work, I will say this - that when we use words like retailers and producers in an age of Cafe Press and Blurb and apps like WarBook on Facebook we need to tread carefully. del.icio.us

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0 For example, I just had someone ask about using Facebook in a corporate context as part of on-boarding.

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Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 25, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « A foot in both worlds.working on a MacBook | Main | Facebook on iPhone (Inside Facebook) » August 25, 2007 Reflections from Adaptive Paths UX Week 2007 I had a little time now to digest all that I heard at the user experience/design conference named UX Week 2007 and put on by Adaptive Path. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us del.icio.us

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 16, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Day 3 - Forecasting the Future: Predicition Markets and MMOGs | Main | SCORM and the Whole 2.0 mean when you eliminate paper, material, transportation and binding costs from the production of a book.then you really need to stretch to defend keeping your current price model dont you? That means Facebook, the most popular site on college campuses after the filesharing sites. del.icio.us

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Gartner is calling tablets – “media tablets&#. When you hear the term “browser agnostic&# , what this means is that the product or solution will work on any browser. Several years ago, many LMS vendor products did not work on Macs, a major consternation for end users who used this system. Ahh two wonderful words, unless you happen to be the other company on the other end, about to be purchased or assimilated into your new BFF’s product.

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