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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.

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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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Social InFormal – it’s the network!

Clark Quinn

Yesterday, I talked about how social added to formal learning. Today I want to extend social learning learning to informal learning. When I talked about the value social adds to formal, it was about processing the information in richer ways, to help facilitate learning. are our network. Tags: social.

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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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How to Promote Online Courses with LinkedIn

LearnDash

LinkedIn is a large, unique social networking platform. You can choose to share contact details, including website links and other social media profiles. Engage within your network As with all social media platforms, engagement is key to online course promotion. Specify your country/region and city. Contact info.

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Comparison of 4 habit tracking apps for yourself or use in learning

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

They can help with new habits such as learning more, reading, more active networking of playing guitar. What's great is that you can link Streaks directly to your pedometer so it automatically keeps track of your steps. Their slogan is therefore "habit tracking just went social". That is certainly not the case.

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