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Key Social Learning Resources: Part 12

Here’s this week’s round up of resources that look at social learning and the use of social media for working and learning:

1 – The first resource I want to share with you this week is Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Learning Start Guide, which appears inside the (glossy) November edition of Inside Learning Technologies magazine, and which is introduced as follows:

“New tools have given training practitioners limitless new

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Reactions to the non-training approach to workplace learning

Following my recent post on the case for a non-training approach (NTA) to workplace learning and the launch of my NTA website, I’ve received quite a bit feedback and read a number of blog posts and comments about it. So I thought I would plot all these reactions on the learning technology adoption curve that my Internet Time Alliance (ITA) colleague, Harold Jarche and I produced last year (which is…

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The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning

The Training Department (aka the L&D dept) has traditionally focused on designing, developing, delivering and managing instruction – in the form of courses, workshops, e-learning and other training events.  In  fact “a course” in some form or other has now become  the de facto solution to any performance problem in an organisation – despite the fact that many of my Internet Time Alliance colleagues (and others) have spoken about its…

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Key Social Learning Resources: Part 11

My weekly Monday  round-up of key social learning resources was interrupted last week by my Top 100 Tools 2011 posting , but this week we are back on track with a five more valuable articles and postings.

1 – First of all my Social Learning Community hosted on Yammer  is still going strong – now with nearly 1,000 members. Recently Yammer announced new social features. 

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Educational Technology & Related Education Conferences: Jan-June 2012

Clayton R Wright has produced the latest version of his well-known and well-regarded conference list.

“This 26^th version of the conference list covers selected events from four continents. The list focuses primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until June 30, 2012 are complete as dates, locations, or Internet addresses (URLs) were not available for a number of events ..."

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2011 Top 100 Tools List and Presentation finalised

Yesterday, I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list.  In the last few days of voting  there was a surge of contributions (both online and by email) that brought the number of contributions to 531.  Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their Top 10 Tools and help me compile this, the 5th annual survey of learning tools.

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Key social learning resources: part 10

I have just returned from Las Vegas where I hosted the Management Xchange stage at DevLearn, so this week I am going to link to 3 presentations that were given by Internet Time Alliance principals during that time that focused on the topic of managing learning in the new networked, social enterprise.

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October 2011 in Review

I’ve added over 50 links to interesting articles and resources in my Reading List in October.  As I’ve mentioned lots of them in my continuing series of postings on Key Social Learning Resources, here I want to pick out just five more.

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In this posting Dan Pontefract explains how he has “a problem with both the term digital native and how it has been manufactured into one of… Read the rest of the post here