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The Authentic Learning Model: 7 Things Every eLearning Pro Should Know

Infopro Learning

The Authentic Learning Model involves a high degree of social interaction, as online learners must be able to engage in meaningful online discussions and play an active role in your online learning community. Create social media groups and forums to facilitate peer-to-peer interactions.

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Should You Use Social Media in Your Course?

LearnDash

A look at the advantages, disadvantages, and underlying purpose of social media in the classroom. Social media is among the most prominent of these resources , and there’s a strong temptation for many online educators to find creative ways to use it in their course. Networking for new and old learners alike. Course bloat.

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Surf’s Up: Riding the Waves of eLearning Trends

Association eLearning

Collaborative and Social Learning. How do you make online learning collaborative and social? There are several ways to do this but among those most popular are social media integration and forums or message boards and chat features. Post your questions and comments in the forum. What about networking?

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6 Social Media Platforms, and How to Use Them for Your E-Learning

LearnDash

Convinced social media is right for your online course? Social media isn’t for every course. That said, not every social media platform works the same way, and your first step in determining if it’s right for you probably involves a closer look at the options available.

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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. As for local meetups, in all my years I have never seen this offered in a regular online course!

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Reflections of a mooc unvirgin

E-Learning Provocateur

An announcement board kept us up to date, the discussion forums were easy to find, and the final assessment was explained clearly from Day 1. The course was supported by social media groups across several platforms, including Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. There was no shortage of them in this mooc.

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How to Use social media for Online Learning?

Skillquore

Social Media is an integral part of our lives. From the moment we wake up till we hit the sack at night, most of our waking hours are spent on social media. So, pretty much the first and the last thing we do in our lives is being on social media. Advantages of Using Social Media for Learning.