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Looking for an LMS with Social Media Features?

Posted by Ellen on July 7, 2010

Check out this article from Chief Learning Officer magazine from Brandon Hall Research featuring five systems that do just that:

http://www.clomedia.com/columnists/2010/July/2986/index.php

BTW, if you’re not subscribing to CLO, maybe you should… it’s free and though the focus is on corporate learning executives, there’s a lot here that can keep you ahead of the game in the non-profit education sector.

Happy reading!

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Learners Forget

Posted by Ellen on January 11, 2009

Okay, I’ll confess up front I can’t find the article, but we’ve seen the data that discusses how much learners forget as soon as they walk out the door (or close the asynchronous course), and how much more they fail to retain over time.

So we help them plug the holes with Web 2.0 — or my new favorite reference to these online tools, Social Learning — so they can connect with each other for answers, update their personal learning environments by blogging or podcasting or capturing their new knowledge on their wikis, or saving the links to their social bookmarking sites…. right? Read the rest of this entry »

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Plans for eLearning Development are on the Rise

Posted by Ellen on December 26, 2008

Two respected sources, citing at least two respected studies, indicate that elearning development will continue to increase in the next year. Read the rest of this entry »

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