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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. As a student we learn how to ignore the chatter.

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Performance - Collaboration - Social Network Analysis - eLearning Hot List

Tony Karrer

yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. Can We Enhance People's Cognitive Outcomes? Browse eLearning Content

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Social Network Operating System

Tony Karrer

Their comments around Social Operating Systems is interesting: The issue, and what social operating systems will resolve, is that today's tools do not recognize the "social graph"-the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or address book; the people one actually knows, is related to, or works with.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

PKM is a set of problem-solving skills for work, focused on getting things done but not necessarily task focused. More important advances in the future will be our advances in dealing with information & problem solving, not in computer technology ( he was quoting someone–didn’t catch who, and this is only a paraphrase ).

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Clark Quinn

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? So no problem if their Wiki is tied to the LMS. Interestingly when Yahoo create MyWeb as a competitor to del.icio.us

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Learning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk

Tony Karrer

If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different than the corporate tool (the LMS) do you ask them to move? So no problem if their Wiki is tied to the LMS. Interestingly when Yahoo create MyWeb as a competitor to del.icio.us

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

The "management" aspect of LMS' creates another problem: much like we used to measure "bums in seats" for program success, we now see statistics of "students enrolled in our LMS" and "number of page views by students" as an indication of success/progress. Networks do work: learning communities/networks/ecologies.

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