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My History of Live Blogged Notes

Experiencing eLearning

Synchronous Learning. Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions. Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication. Social Bookmarking to Support Professional Practice. Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning. Creating Visual Stories That Resonate.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. Text-based messaging systems allow for quickly communicating with someone in a synchronous environment. Social Bookmarking. Social Network. Best Use of Tool.

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Social Learning – What’s the Point? Time to turn the tables on the naysayers

eLearning 24-7

That is what one senior exec said to me, the other day when it came to social learning. mobile learning) – especially tablets, social learning stand-alone solutions, hybrid system (yet to be developed by any vendor), virtual worlds (v-learning), marketplace exchanges (not affiliated with a system). Incorporate Social Q/A.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

WebCT and Blackboard have recently formed partnerships with synchronous tools to allow for easy integration across platforms. When interaction and connections are viewed as the most valuable aspect of learning, then other options - like social tools - are reasonable alternative. Large, centralized, mono-culture tools limit options.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

E-Learning Provocateur

For example: Discussion forums (synchronous or asynchronous) allow the learner to ask questions, clarify concepts and share experiences. In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Social bookmarks.

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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

Adaptive Learning with a Social Q/A twist. Cliqset -social web service that helps users share and discover content and discuss it with other users. Social Media Solutions that have multiple APIs built in their system, basically they are a mashup in a sense. MyVidster – social bookmarking plus videos.

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NextGen LMS Features (Now and Later)

eLearning 24-7

The meet the minimum 16 standards you need for an LMS (to be defined IMO), and on top of that hit the next generation current set of features (includes some aspects of social, gamification, general items, UI/UX – i.e. user experience). . Social Profiles. Other cool capability – include social bookmarking into your system.

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