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Formal learning & social networking

Clark Quinn

is about informal learning, but the organization was moving to using social networking tools to scaffold their move from face-to-face to more online learning. So I was asked to talk about social networking and formal learning. I then segued to my second point, which is that social networking tools are better formal learning.

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Related Terms

Tony Karrer

Here are some terms that are getting more attention the first couple weeks this month (December 2008) include Social Media , eLearning Activity , Mobile Learning , Yugma , Slideshare , SharePoint , Twitter , 100 Conversations , Mzinga , and GeoLearning.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Social news or network aggregators.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

But I do find folks who claim because they were accessing online learning in the 60’s thru WAN (Wide-Area Network) and LAN (Local-Area-Network) Sorry, that doesn’t fly. Prodigy (the first portal, pre-CompuServe and AOL -for home use), modem was 4800 bytes. Modem You needed one of these to access the Internet.