Tag archives for social learning

What I did at the Learning Solutions 2010 Conference – Friday

Learning Through Social Media Friday was the last day of the conference. Marcia Conner (who I am interning for at Pistachio Consulting this semester) had asked if I wanted to participate on a panel about learning through social media, and this is actually why I came to the conference. Besides Marcia and myself, Koreen Olbrish [...]

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Learning from 100 years of failure

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 deciding how the technology features can be used to deliver instruction. This sort of design [...]

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Where I’ll be in November

Besides working on my two performance classes, I’ll also be attending a couple of Boston-based events. Tues Nov 3 I’ll be at the Mass chapter of ISPI to hear Cammy Bean talk about eLearning authoring tools. Several other #lrnchat folks will be there too. Tues Nov 17 I’m planning to go to the Greater Boston [...]

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ASTD Big Question: What will workplace learning be like in 10 years?

This month’s Big Question from ASTD is “what will workplace learning be like in 10 years?”. If you go to their post, there are already some really interesting thoughts and comments about this topic. Byron said “The best prophet of the future is the past”. I’m a firm believer in that notion, so I’d like [...]

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How do you measure social learning

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 know there are posts on ideas of how social media should be used for education. [...]

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