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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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“Seeding” Social Media for Engagement

Kapp Notes

The other day someone emailed me with a question of how to get social media usage going in an organization. Here are a few suggestions, First, I often “seed&# the use of a social networking tool with a basic question like “What do you think [this tool] can do for us?&#

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How Mobile Apps Can Act as Social Learning Tools

Origin Learning

Instant messaging, e-mails, texts, social media interactions- all of these have become an inseparable part of our lives ever since the smartphone revolution has taken place. A lot of social learning is already happening on the mobile platform. Communication, right?

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NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

Wonderful Brain

Incorporate social media seamlessly into their personal and professional lives. Rely heavily on blogs, instant messages, tweets, text messages. Display a casual disdain for authority and structured work hours, dislike being micro-managed, skeptical and embrace a hands-off management philosophy.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform. Email this to a friend?

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A 7-step guide for eLearning Modernization

Infopro Learning

Would they like their online training to incorporate their social media habits? Cut Down the Text These days, every instant messaging app has an option to make phone calls and send voice notes. Do they prefer daily doses of online training fitted into their busy lives? Include their feedback in the upgrade.

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Seven other advantages of an e-learning strategy

Connect Thinking

Examples include web conferencing or webinar, forums, instant messaging and blogs. Organisation experience in social media. Although the intent of social media for learning is different to, say, marketing, the very introduction and experience of social media for learning can help inform other parts of the business.