Social & Collaborative Learning
The interactions between people and groups where information, knowledge and insight are shared to collectively improve performance and build contextual understanding.
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Mobile Technologies and Social Learning
A quick look around your workplace (or even the grocery store) tells you that most of us are always connected. Not only that, we also now know much more about the benefits of combining social and mobile technology for learning. Here are the background and the tips you may need to help you get started!
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Nuts and Bolts: Social Media for Learning Part 1: Extending, Including, Supporting
In the four years since Jane’s column “Social Media for Learning” appeared here, the popular use of social media and tools that make it easy to generate and share images has exploded. This month’s column looks at some of the new ways you might extend your own practice through use of these social tools.
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EMEA Reporter: On the INHOPE Network, eLearning Helps in Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
The Internet has its good side, but unfortunately it also has its evil side: the victimization of children. Fortunately, there is an international network of hotlines, set up in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, to rapidly identify and remove child-abuse material from the Internet. eLearning plays an important part in this effort. In this article you’ll meet one of the key players.
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Microsoft’s Corporate MOOC: Transforming Training to Increase Seller Engagement
This paper explores Microsoft’s first massive open online course (MOOC), examining lessons learned from the design and implementation process and how Microsoft L&D leaders plan to move forward.
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Microsoft’s Corporate MOOC: Transforming Training to Increase Seller Engagement
This paper explores Microsoft’s first massive open online course (MOOC), examining lessons learned from the design and implementation process and how Microsoft L&D leaders plan to move forward.
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Marc My Words: What Exactly Is Mobile Learning?
How do you see mobile learning? As a context? A device? An ecosystem? Is the way you think about mobile learning inhibiting your application of it? The thought-provoking scenarios in this column may help you resolve these questions.
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Book Review: Ten Strategies for Building Community with Technology
Times change, and instructional methods change with them. One concept that instructional designers should become familiar with is that of the role of community in learning, and the necessity of learners feeling themselves involved in a community. A new book takes a strategic look at this approach and provides the necessary background you need to get started.
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EMEA Reporter: Julian Stodd on the Rise of Social Authority
In the new ecosystems of the Social Age, many, if not most, of the paradigms that used to shape and regulate the workplace have become redundant. Read about Julian Stodd’s view of the new, fluid, unexpected environment!
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Riding the Digital Stream: Integrating Modern Learning Practice into Formal Programs
As we break away from discrete training efforts and move toward joining formal-personal and social-informal learning together in one continuous, systematic program, what are the steps and practices that will make that process smoother? How can we help people learn to function at a high level without the need for formal training? Here’s a thought-provoking look at some answers.
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Training Tips from The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad
The second screen (using a mobile device to access supplementary content or applications) is no longer a passing trend, and no longer exclusive to viewers of popular television programs. Here’s an introductory look at this design strategy, and how it is already in use in eLearning.