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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Make Your Cloud/MOOC Course BYOD Friendly (Part 4)
As more and more training moves into the cloud, enabling mobile access is all the rave. But doing this for a free and open course makes the designer’s life that much more exciting. Make design and development easy for yourself—use what is already out there before starting to develop your own mobile solutions that enable access to your open, online, or cloud course. Here’s how!
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Social Learning: Answers to Eight Crucial Questions
The eLearning Guild has released its 2012 research report on the numerous benefits of leveraging a more social approach to learning.
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eLearning Guild Research: How Important is Informal Learning?
How critical is informal learning to workplace learning and performance? Here’s some food for thought from the Guild’s August 2012 research report, Smart Companies Support Informal Learning.
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Social Learning: Answers to Eight Crucial Questions
Social learning + social media tools provide formidable new ways to learn from each other with profound implications. In this report from Guild Research, Ben Betts examines eight key elements for successfully integrating social learning into your organization, including the benefits, risks, frameworks, how to generate value, tools, how to measure success, and your role in the social learning.
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Marc My Words: The Fall and Rise of Performance Support
After two decades in eclipse during the rise of eLearning, performance support is returning to become an essential part of business strategy. Marc reflects on the significance of this re-focus in the world of learning and performance.
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Book Review: Unschooling Rules, by Clark Aldrich
For anyone who thinks education in America isn’t quite right and wants to do something about it, add Clark Aldrich’s Unschooling Rules to your summer reading list. This quick read of Aldrich’s 55 common-sense insights will surely pique your interest. And you may soon find yourself unlearning everything you know about schools in America today.
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Nuts and Bolts: Narrating Our Work
Here’s a true story about physical rehab turned learning turned hobby turned community of practice turned two successful businesses, all via informal, social means. And all within six months.
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Build a Dashboard for your MOOC (Part 3)
In the first two articles of this series, you learned how to set up the core of a MOOC and how to add social media to the course. In this article, Inge shows how to create a dashboard to integrate all the course locations. It’s easy, and it’s free!
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Choose and Embed Social Media in Your MOOC (Part 2)
Continuing the series on collaborative learning in the Cloud, this month you learn how to engage participants and increase learning in a Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC. This is very simple to do using common social media tools. Get the step-by-step details here!
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Massive Open Online Courses: Setting Up (StartToMOOC, Part 1)
Collaborative learning and the cloud were made for each other! And a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) leverages both in the service of online learning. In this six-part series, you will learn how to organize and manage a MOOC, step by step. Start today with this article, and set up the core elements.