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Facebook for Educators

Moodle Journal

In one particular year, I certainly managed to get pretty much wholesale agreement with using the social network for both easy contact and handing out achievement comments’ and graphical badges and general course information. In the following year, a similar attempt led to me being almost completely unfriended, strange?

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. blogs disruptive innovation education higher education learning social web Technology the future of education VLE wikis' Unported License.

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Dead personal

Learning with e's

For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or perhaps no web based use at all) is an option. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not. There should also be plenty of opportunity during the Fringe (F-ALT) sessions - see the F-ALT website for more details on these informal discussions.

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e-Factor Conference

Moodle Journal

These events are always great for networking, and this time was no exception in during the two unscheduled fire alarms. I must say that I felt particularly encouraged with regard to the emphasis on the vle and eLearning especially with relevance to the new Common Inspection Framework.

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Facebook for e-Learning

eFront

At the same time, Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks that helps people communicate efficiently with their friends, families, coworkers, and classmates. Sorry I got carried away a bit there :P You can also integrate other social networking API's such as Twitter. November 7, 2010 9:34 AM JasonOutThere said.

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Good morning Barcelona!! Jim Groom at #EDEN15

Learning with e's

He has set up a number of alternative learning experiences, but most notably, his MOOC on digital storytelling, more commonly known as ds106, has had tremendous impact on what we now consider to be possible with global, networked learning. Listening to Jim Groom speak is a lot of fun. However, all of this wasn't just fun for fun sake.

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How we think about learning influences our e-learning practice

Connect Thinking

Support through the thoughtful design of social media, social networks and/or performance support tools would enable staff to ’unlearn’ and ‘relearn’ emerging information and skills. Author : Buffer, Inc Website : [link] -->. What is the learning theory you espouse? Please feel free to comment and share.