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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

Some sites crowd-source the answers while others use mentors to answer questions in their area of expertise. Here are a few: Amazon’s Askville , Yahoo Answers , Answerbag , Gotta Mentor , BlurtIt , and WikiAnswers. Create a Mashup. Two mashup platforms are Pipes and Scrapplet. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Social Learning

Clark Quinn

Certainly this kind of approach, leveraging the interest of other students, mentors, coaches, experts, etc. A long time ago I posted about Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups where I suggested that there would be easy ways to add social dimensions to our courses. Normally when we talk about eLearning 2.0

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Performance Support

Clark Quinn

Great post by Jay Cross that uses the history of performance support to set up the need for what Jay calls Learnscapes. He later asks: Overall, what are corporate blogs, feeds, aggregators, wikis, mash-ups, locator systems, collaboration environments, and widgets, if not performance support?

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Kindle Highlights Social Learning

Marcia Conner

Mashups change work’s traditional linear and separate roles into a culture of co-production, co-design, and co-development, mixing responsibilities among everyone involved in a new cyclical process. We see four types of mashups influencing how people learn socially: role, workgroup, content, and management. photo by: wokka.

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Learning with people, not technology

Jay Cross

People keep up to speed by attending short two-way sessions with a dozen or fewer colleagues on the job floor. Face-to-face methods like mentoring might be best. If you share my interest in mashing up agile development and corporate learning, you may want to check out Unmanagement.net.

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Curation: A Core Competency for Learning Professionals

The Learning Circuits

Most actual learning takes place informally on-the-job, through coaching, mentoring, experience, and other sharing. Mashups : Merging two or more unrelated pieces of content to form a new message. Estimates show that upwards of 90% of workplace learning takes place outside of formal programs.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. Wheeler (Ed.) Wheeler, S.

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