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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #13

Upside Learning

Video gaming improves visual perception, processing and attention. AS3 Lib for Yammer – An AS3 Yammer API library that communicates with the Yammer service. To use the library you will need your own consumer key and secret for the Yammer API available from Yammer’s developer site.

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Connecting Social Learning to e-Learning

dVinci Interactive

Facebook, Twitter and Yammer are becoming more accepted tools in the workplace, due to their mass networking capabilities. E-learning has to be fun, collaborative, and interactive to keep the learners’ attention. Social media continues to grow worldwide. Social media and social learning platforms provide new ways to do this.

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17 Awesome Resources on Micro Learning

Learnnovators

Micro learning suits the constraints of the human brain with respect to its attention span. In this approach, the learning content is offered in short durations of 3 to 7 minutes at the most to match the human attention span. Associations/Events/Meet-ups.

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Social media for trainers: think differently!

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The workshop was quite successful as measured by the people who contacted me afterwards for more information, to buy my book or to ask whether they could share our test Yammer and test Ning with their colleagues. The assumption is that you need an energizer, physical exercise to wake up and pay attention. Online this works differently.

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Open Office, Work Culture, and Productivity

The Performance Improvement Blog

It''s way more efficient and less maddening than having my Gchat icon flashing all day, since I already suffer from multitasking overload, thanks to email, Yammer, Campfire, social media, and multiple browser tabs. Instead of IM''ing each other, we''re talking in person. Despite these disagreements, it’s not one-size-fits-all.

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Narrowing Gap between Face-to-Face and Online Presentations

Tony Karrer

Some percentage of that audience was taking notes and chatting on Yammer. I've talked about this in Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences and made the comment that: In-person conferences have an advantage of getting more attention from the attendees. and paying attention. 75% of the audience had a laptop.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 24, 2019

Mike Taylor

Yammer Isn’t Just a Communication Tool. Simon Terry ( @simongterry ) looks at Yammer as a strategic talent and capability coordination tool that he says if you aren’t using to power your strategy you are losing massive value. Are you using Yammer or any other ESN to bring your people together in pursuit of organization strategy?

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