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Top 5 eLearning Skills for 2011 – A Follow-Up

eLearning Weekly

Social Media – As we all know social media is no longer a trend and is becoming the main stream of communicating. In preparation for the years to come though, I would encourage everyone to get a Twitter account, join LinkedIn groups, and engage in Facebook Groups, etc. I don’t think SoMe is a skill so much as it is a practice.

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Facebook--Good for Your Memory: Twitter--Not So Much

Kapp Notes

Tracy Alloway of Scotland’s University of Stirling found that using Facebook stretches a person's “working memory” (short-term or recent memory), while Twitter, YouTube and text messaging tend to weaken it. Your attention span is being reduced and you're not engaging your brain and improving nerve connections.''

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9 Top eLearning Trends of 2017 from 49 Experts

eLearningArt

I hasten to say that there are other avenues we wish were getting attention, but we realize the following trends have practical priorities for the majority of our clients: Micro Learning — Short learning segments have multiple advantages, but what stands out is their facilitation of getting to specifically needed content very quickly.

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The Science of Social Media Marketing: What do people share?

ID Reflections

How will you test which marketing efforts are working--through iteration What is "selection pressure"--how will you create something that can withstand today's selection pressures Proverbs stick; to make Tweets stand out from the stream, is this a good standard to follow Spread of ideas by imitation; what kind of ideas are people likely to imitate (..)

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I’ve got your content right here

Clark Quinn

They had a Facebook page, and a twitter account, and a blog they had a placeholder for, and they couldn’t figure out how they were going to populate these. One enthusiastic staff member was always sending emails about things they should pay attention to. And there was a regular stream of events that occurred.

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How Long Should Videos Be for E-Learning?

LearnDash

If they are, they’re probably pausing it mid-stream and coming back to it later. And no, it’s not because attention spans are shrinking. According to TED curator Chris Anderson : It [18 minutes] is long enough to be serious and short enough to hold people’s attention. It’s the length of a coffee break.

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How to Combat Shorter Attention Spans with Engaging Training

KnowledgeAnywhere

With the constant stream of notifications, updates, and distractions, it's increasingly difficult to focus on a single task or piece of content for an extended period. Decreasing attention span has been widely debated and studied in recent years, and the evidence suggests that social media may be at least partially to blame.