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The changing Web

Learning with e's

Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. What is the extent of the capability of social software to encourage a culture of sharing and collaboration? social software: An enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and healthcare education.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

Of all the sections in my book on critical skills learning professionals need to know now, “enterprise 2.0 collaboration” seems like the most unlikely “critical” skill. However, as the speed of business keeps increasing, learning pros are having to adjust their goals, and the skills they need to fulfill them.

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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

A Formula for Storytelling in eLearning - Integrated Learnings , April 6, 2010 When a client asked our team to develop a sales skills enhancement course, we opted to base the training on the methods of the most successful sales person in the department. tags: web_2.0 Most action plans last four to six weeks. By Shelley A. ASTD is born.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. I need you to give me a one-page wish list of the capabilities you require from social software to make the most of social learning and carry out your vision of what we need to do.”

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

Learning with e's

The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995.

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First, kill all the instructors

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This morning I received an email asking… How are people using social software to support learning? I think most of us agree that there is an important social dimension to learning. But in what ways do social software applications such as LinkedIn and FaceBook help people to learn?

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Wiki working

Learning with e's

It delineates some of the affordances and constraints of wiki software as an open architecture that has the potential to facilitate collaborative learning through community-focused enquiry. The study also explored how students, through such activities, were able to improve their academic writing skills and engage more critically in learning.

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