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Social Networking – A Contrarian View

Upside Learning

We all know social networks promote learning; while the mechanisms aren’t documented or well-understood, that it works isn’t in doubt anymore. But we must ask, are the ‘social media/networking systems’ out there promoting this learning? Has your organization implemented a social networking platform?

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning. Then all hell breaks loose.

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

Social learning can help today’s organizations keep up with the pace at which their business moves. More and more, organizations are turning to social learning to deliver exciting e- learning experiences to their customers, partners, and employees. Social learning approaches have a 75:1 ROI ratio compared to formal web-based training.

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Competency-Based Learning: How to Bridge the Skills-Gap

Association eLearning

How bad is the skills-gap problem? Associations are best equipped to address the skills-gap problem, but they need to stop delivering courses and start delivering competencies. A Social Learning Network. Using his micro-credentialing and social connections, Billy was hired on at GM as a welder. Opportunities.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? To add an element of competition, a leaderboard tracked and displayed which players had made the most finds. Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good.

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Why your Enterprise Social Network is your most valuable social learning platform

Jane Hart

In the workplace, social learning comes through social collaboration. Social learning is a natural everyday phenomenon; simply put, we learn from our colleagues as we work with them. You can’t force people to be social – this mostly results in contrived or faux interactions rather than any genuine social learning.

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Social Network = Social Class?

Kapp Notes

Is your socio-economic status reflected in your favorite social networking software? Check out the full article Does your social class determine your online social network? Even more affluent are users of Twitter , the microblogging site, and LinkedIn, a networking site geared to white-collar professionals.