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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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Imagining a Badge System for e-Learning
Badges, those little icons so loved by gamers, have some surprising uses in e-Learning. These uses go beyond providing superficial rewards, including improving recall, increasing motivation, and supporting social interaction. Here’s what we’re learning about this element of gamification.
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App Fusion: Twaining in Twitter
Many instructional designers and training managers believe that Twitter is not a useful channel for learning. However, it is where many of your learners spend a lot of time, and it offers some often-overlooked features that can serve as effective delivery vehicles. Terrence shows you how, and offers a demonstration.
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App Fusion: Learning Face-off with Facebook
The enormous and growing numbers of Facebook users create an opportunity for e-Learning. The Facebook Developer API allows you to change Facebook’s functionality from a Content Management System (CMS) to a Learning Management System (LMS). Here’s how to bend Facebook to your will!
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How To Revamp Your Learning Model
Informal learning today is a lot like the old saying about the weather: everybody talks about it, but nobody knows what to do about it. Here’s an approach to creation of an environment that will support both formal and informal processes.
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One-Step Worksheet: Find Where Social Learning Will Work at Your Company
Strategy is the key to successful implementation of social learning, but not all strategies are created equal. This one-item checklist offers a simple test that will help you identify the best place to roll out social learning in your organization, and the places not to launch it.
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Get Serious About Social Learning by Focusing on What Matters
Social learning supports powerful learning experiences, leverages social networks to accelerate learning, and improves productivity. Learn here how to create a great strategy to make these things happen.
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The Special Sauce of Social Learning
Social media and social learning are attracting a lot of attention, but don’t overlook the fact that it’s not the technology that makes them effective. Here are the eight ingredients you need to make social learning successful.
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Book Review: Tools of Engagement, by Tom Bunzel
As organizations adopt social media for corporate communications and marketing, e-Learning pros will need to help managers and executives learn about it. Here is a textbook that may help.
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Marc My Words: Will Social Media Rot Our Brains?
Love it or hate it, social media and its compression of expression is here to stay. Marc presents the pros and the cons, and asks the critical question: What are we going to do about it?
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Book Review: Social Media for Trainers, by Jane Bozarth
One of the current big questions for many instructional designers and their managers is, “What about social media? Can Twitter, Facebook, and the like deliver and support learning?” Jane Bozarth shows you how in this new book.