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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with e's

Engaging them in online environments can amplify the problem. And perhaps your social presence, if you know how to invoke it. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. Engaging learners can be difficult in any context. All you have is your voice.

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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

Main difference between social and professional communities. Normally they face the same problems or challenges and seek support in handling them. Social networks on the other hand are online groups of people who are acquainted or connected as friends, business contacts, or colleagues and use social software tools to stay in touch.

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4 Benefits of Collaborative Learning [Infographic]

CommLab India

In the article “ Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems ”, Christian Dalsgaard of the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark, says online learning needs to “ engage students in an active use of the web as a resource for their self-governed, problem-based and collaborative activities .”

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Reflections on Web 2.0 Expo

Clark Quinn

I also talked to Social Text, seeing if they supported user-generation of video (no). Also, I’d been pinged by the CEO of MangoSpring via the social software for the conference (which didn’t obviously give me a way of pinging back!?!?), so I stopped by the booth for their product, Engage.

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2010 in Retrospect: Top Few Blogs and Books

ID Reflections

Wicked Problems 17. The “New” Social Learning isn’t a New Thing by Sumeet Moghe 18. and Social Software should be opt-in by Gautam Ghosh 22. The Power of Meaning by Thierry de Baillon 16. Enterprise 2.0 - Community Spaces can lead to Walled Gardens by Sumeet Moghe 19. Enterprise 2.0

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

.” All of this adds up to a new skill that learning experience designers need to develop: Identifying, championing, and implementing interventions that get people to gather, work together better, and solve problems together. The point is to get people working together to solve problems. Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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Social Learning, Collaboration, and Team Identity

Skilful Minds

Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Recently, Mortensen continued researching the topic by studying 39 officially defined software and product development teams.