Category Archives: social learning

Curating = filtering signals

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I really like this presentation from Janet Clarey about facilitating learning through the social web. Her ideas on curating and wayfinding are really similar to my ideas about a learning GPS. She’s right, tech + social has fundamentally changed how … Continue reading

Social media – advice from #DL10

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Tonight is the first night I’ve been able to sit in on the #DL10 tweet stream – because I was able to “catch” some of Marcia Conner’s keynote. One thing that was tweeted from her presentation is really sticking with … Continue reading

Book Review: The New Social Learning

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I just finished reading The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Before I get started, let me disclose that I was given advance copies of the book, I’m quoted … Continue reading

Learning from 100 years of failure

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According to one of my text books for this semester (Multi-Media Learning by Richard E. Mayer), technology-centered technology has a 100-year tradition of failure. Technology-centered learning approaches designing learning by looking at the features the technology can provide, and then … Continue reading

Vacation is good for clearning your head

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I’m writing this while I’m still on vacation. This week we drove to my hometown, rented a condo on the beautiful Gulf of Mexico, and I didn’t do a thing I didn’t want to do. I swam. I took naps. … Continue reading

Communities, PLEs, small groups, & power

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My mom loves telling the following story about me, to emphasize the fact that I have always been bossy. I am the oldest, and I have one brother who is 16 months younger than me and another who is 3 … Continue reading

How do you measure social learning

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I tweeted this question earlier: are there studies that show ways to measure social learning? More specifically, are there studies or research that shows ways to measure the ROI of using social media tools and processes for corporate education? I … Continue reading