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The changing Web

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Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. What is the extent of the capability of social software to encourage a culture of sharing and collaboration? social software: An enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and healthcare education.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. Unported License. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

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Companies will choose best-of-breed social business software vendors for enterprise social learning deployments, not niche players Below is Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, G00171792 [see note at end of post]. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.