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Facebook for e-Learning

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day.

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Microsoft Buys Skype: Will it Impact Your eLearning Strategy?

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

The big news this week is Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5billion. Since Microsoft has some ownership in Facebook this might open up FB as a more viable corporate solution. Maybe smaller companies would find Facebook an acceptable communication tool with a Skype feature incorporated into the mega-network. 21-23 2011

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What Can the E-Learning Industry Learn from Omnichannel?

LearnDash

A learner decides to take your online course and signs in to your account using their Facebook profile. Their earlier sign-in makes it easier for them to integrate with the learning group on Facebook, where they connect with other learners and share interesting articles to the group. They register for the event and buy tickets online.

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There's a bot for that! Chatbots to stimulate learning and reflection

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I'm not on Facebook messenger myself so I do not know what a chat is." Via the Apple appstore Poncho de Weather cat will tell you the weather and crack a joke via Facebook messenger Work on your health with the Healthybot. Ah, so it's another way to get news? Why are chatbots hot? billion people used Messaging Apps in 2016.

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Top 10 Learning Tools 2018

Clark Quinn

Looking at last year’s post , I see I’ve switched from Google to DuckDuckGo (privacy issues), and from Skype to Zoom (functionality). It gets autoposted to LinkedIn and Facebook (at least, notifications), so comments there or here are a way for me to learn. WordPress (e.g. Please do share your list, too!

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

I have a private Facebook account too, but I hardly use it. We now use Facebook more for announcements and things like that. In our company we use Microsoft Lync (sort of internal skype). I use Skype but lately I use gotomeeting and gotowebinar more and more to connect to people outside our company.

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How (Not) To Write Marketing Posts

Clark Quinn

I have a canned response that includes the line: I deliberately ignore what comes unsolicited, and instead am triggered by what comes through my network: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, etc. Now, one of the problems is that many posts I see seem to follow a similar algorithm: Search for articles on a hot buzzword.

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