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Personal Learning Tools and Technologies

Tony Karrer

The problem is that the question is somewhat complex to answer for any individual and so not something to be done lightly. Jane Hart has done a great job collecting individual answers to what learning tools and technologies that people use. Unfortunately, Chris got some flak based on his initial question. links: [link]

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Social Media And Learning

The eLearning Coach

It’s about having a toolbox containing a number of different social technologies at your disposal in order to select the most appropriate one(s) that address a particular learning or business problem. eLearning Coach: Can you describe the advantages of the social media environment, Elgg? Tell us how below.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. We quickly discovered that wikis are so open as to cause problems if some form of scaffolding or structure is not created for students. and Purdon, M.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

Still, if I ask, what would I want to have helped learning professionals to know at a base level around social networks and their relationship to learning: What's a social network and what do users do in social networks? How do social networks relate to personal learning?

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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. Tools like Furl , del.icio.us

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Cisco - Enterprise 2.0

Tony Karrer

There are text blogs and video blogs, discussion groups, and "problems and solutions links." There's an internal version of MySpace, which provides not only title and contact info but also personal profiles, job histories, interests, and videos. And support personal learning and networking. Capture best practices.

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Curating the Content Overload

OpenSesame

If I were a venture capitalist, I’d invest in applications and companies that attack the problem of curating content. As learning and development professionals, we have to sort through all of the content that might be worth passing on to our colleagues. If you ask Diigo , social bookmarking is the future.