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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. July 21st, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment Last week, I had the good fortune to speak with George Siemens for an upcoming Xyleme Voices podcast. However, those vendors who rely solely on this argument are very likely to find themselves quickly marginalized. Blow up your LMS.

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Five Myths of Social Learning

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. Social learning is bi-directional and user-generated content and feedback can be a valuable asset for instructional designers to develop more compelling and timely learning, whether that learning is published to a formal course, a non-formal podcast, or an informal blog. We are seeing this today.

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Reflecting on Xyleme Voices: The Industry Luminaries We've Talked To

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. This year, our educational podcast library Xyleme Voices was nominated and shortlisted in the category of Best Educational Use of Audio. They all understand the impact of these podcasts, and no one takes them lightly. Within an hour of posting her podcast, she had hundreds of downloads.

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Four Ways User-Generated Content (UGC) Can Make its Way into.

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. Note on this post: “Subject matter network” is a term I picked up from Harold Jarche when I commented on his Social learning in the enterprise post; also, the points I make regarding SMN are based on quotes from leading Social Business Software vendor, Jive Software.

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. One thing your comment really got me thinking more about is, in general, vendors’ lack of features to support informal and/or social interaction. Regarding the podcast with ITA, it was actually mixed. Comparing the two events, she said: “There has to be a happy medium here.”

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Time for the Training Department to be Taken Seriously

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. Well, for the simple reason that this functionality already exists with best-of-breed vendors outside of learning. Training content developers, subject-matter experts, product managers, marketing specialists, instructional designers, technical writers, consultants, etc.

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My Moodle Test

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Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. With Moodle, it’s currently a vendor lock-in proposition. The only saving grace is that the vendor just happens to be an open source project. For example, if you check out Michael Hanley’s blog , you’ll see that he’s dedicated most of his recent posts to this subject.

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