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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). There's social learning wrapped around the formal learning resources.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

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. It is not as though, social learning is going to disappear.

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The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns

Jane Hart

This is the 4th in a series of posts about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning. The three previous posts in this series were: The Smart Worker : learns continuously with social media. Intelpedia is hosted on the open source MediaWiki software.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

In their jobs, workplace learning professionals continue to make heavy use of e-learning authoring tools as well as web conferencing tools (which are on the rise this year by the way), whereas their own personal/professional toolsets include a wider range of social and other tools.: 1 - Twitter. 6 - Dropbox.

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Strategies and Techniques for Implementing Social, Collaborative, and 3D Learning (Virtual Worlds)

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

December Online Forum : Dec 13 & 14 REGISTER HERE This Online Forum explores different types of collaborative and social technology-based learning. It will examine the use of these technologies to support your current learning initiative or as stand-alone learning environments. His session is at 8:30am Friday.

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LMS Vendors: U Can Survive – Innovate, Invigorate and Invent

eLearning 24-7

In the webinar, I brought up how LMS vendors were themselves perpetuating the myth of the bad things of social media (which is a necessary component of social learning), so, rather than identify the facts and data to potential clients who are concerned about social media and thus social learning, they instead do not include it in their system.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Hunch is designed so that every time it’s used, it learns something new. Adaptive Learning with a Social Q/A twist. Cliqset -social web service that helps users share and discover content and discuss it with other users. MediaWiki API. Elodexa – an e-learning document search engine and online viewer.

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