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Learner Resources in the Digital Age

BrainCert

Engaging Young Learners Using Social Media Platforms Social media use continues to rise among adults, with platforms like Facebook and YouTube being the most popular. Yet, it is younger Americans, especially those aged 18-24, who are more likely to use a variety of social media platforms frequently.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc.

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Show and TEL

Learning with e's

We also talked about 'netiquette' - acceptable behaviour in online environments, and how people use Facebook and other social networking tools appropriately and innapropriately, and the implications. These were by no means the only sessions on offer.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc.

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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

And that is where the social media come in. Increasingly academics are making their ideas freely available on blogs, social networks and other sharing sites. Tags: copyright online publishing OER intellectual property open scholarship. Don't misundertand me. I'm not against intellectual property. Unported License.

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Giving it all away

Learning with e's

My digital footprint grows each time I post new content, whether it's on this blog, one of my Flickr accounts, or YouTube, Facebook , LinkedIn or Slideshare. Tags: creative commons user generated content OER Picasso Web 2.0 If you are a user of any Web 2.0 Image source Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace

ID Reflections

Proficiency in social media usage – While we would all like to boast about being social media gurus, using it effectively for learning and enabling others to do the same calls for a different understanding of social media. It goes beyond a Facebook status update.

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