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How to evaluate social and informal learning

Jay Cross

Increasingly, learning is migrating from events (think “workshop&# ) to processes (think “social learning&# ). Social networks are inevitable in enterprise. Social networks are like telephones. What kinds of things might we use to evaluate the effectiveness of our social networks? That’s a given.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

When interaction and connections are viewed as the most valuable aspect of learning, then other options - like social tools - are reasonable alternative. Simple, social tools that start with a learner's ability for self-expression.and then allow for the formation of connections between learners and content.

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Top 7 topics at this year's ALT-C

Learning with e's

In preparation for the forthcoming ALT-C 2007 conference, I glanced over the content of papers, posters, workshops and symposia on offer. Social Software 25 VLEs 24 Blogs 20 Mobile learning 19 Social networking 18 Wikis 16 No surprises really.

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How Masterminding Can Dramatically Increase Your Odds of Success as an Education Entrepreneur with Ken Wallace of MastermindJam

LifterLMS

Then once you get above five or six people, if you’re in a group of seven, eight, 10, 20 people, it starts to feel like more of a workshop and you feel less personally accountable to every other peer that’s in the group, which is fine. It’s still cheaper than one on one coaching.