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Surf’s Up: Riding the Waves of eLearning Trends

Association eLearning

How do you make online learning collaborative and social? Adding discussion groups to courses helps learners exchange ideas and problem solve in a collaborative environment. There are several ways to do this but among those most popular are social media integration and forums or message boards and chat features.

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

I received a question this week related to Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank : I successfully launched a discussion forum for a small group of lending assistants within my bank. That forum is still up and running. I could go on… but I’m sure you get the picture. Great question.

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Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank

Tony Karrer

I recently had a great conversation with Becky Barch, a performance consultant at the Bank, about her smart application of discussion forum software from ElementK. The forum is targeted to a small group – loan/lending assistants. Becky turned around and used a discussion forum to make the situation better.

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Social media: Prevention is better than cure

E-Learning Provocateur

My previous article, Social media: It’s not about the technology! focused on the internal use of social media by employees to import and share knowledge inside the organisation. This article shifts its focus to the external use of social media by employees to export knowledge outside of the organisation.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Last year we've experimented with various social media to improve a sharing event for about 100 participants (for more details see my older blogpost ). This is not too difficult when all your participants are social media adepts, you announce your hashtags and off they go. So how can you still use social media?

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8 Types of Online Communities: Examples & Tips on How to Build Yours

learnWorlds

36% of users prefer online communities because they believe that they can have more meaningful and engaging conversations over there. 36% of users prefer online communities because they believe that they can have more meaningful and engaging conversations over there. Communities provide a safe space. Communities provide a safe space.

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Is the pedagogy of MOOCs flawed?

E-Learning Provocateur

Her counter argument was that the pedagogical devices that I cited – readings, online discussion forums, social media groups and local meetups – are the same learning and teaching functionalities available in any LMS. MOOCs, on the other hand, are the polar opposite. And the participants do participate.

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