Employees learn best when they can apply their lessons in contextual scenarios. Geographically dispersed staff rarely interact in the real world, but that doesn’t mean they can’t collaborate online. As a matter of fact, they...
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8 Tips To Minimize Distractions In Social Learning Environments
Social learning promotes collaboration and peer-based eLearning feedback. But what happens when eLearning blogs, forums, and social networks start to steal your online learners’ attention? In this article, we’ll share 8 tips...
10 Patterns of Interaction: Implementing Social Learning Strategies in eLearning
There are a multitude of interaction methods in an eLearning environment to promote social learning. Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. Now, we’ve already shared...
eFront For IBM Connections
One of the recent innovations in the training industry has come through the use of social technologies to support informal learning: organizations have experimented with Twitter, in particular, to increase employee awareness of...
eFront in Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013
Thank you to all our clients and users who voted for us! The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 list (released 30 September 2013) was compiled from the votes of over 500 education and workplace learning professionals from 48...
10 eLearning buzzwords you need to know!
In this post we’ve put together short descriptions of the top 10 buzzwords in eLearning at the moment: Tin Can, Social Learning, Gamification, mLearning, Tablet learning, Rapid eLearning, Microlearning, Personalization...
efront LMS integration with Facebook
Lately we’ve been talking a lot about using Facebook as a learning platform. Social is integral to learning in the workforce today – and learning platforms need to be able to support formal and informal, personalized and...
Competition Finalist 3: Social Learning Applied
This post was submitted by Kalliopi Sigala. Social Learning. Buzz word, right? Well, yes and no. The truth is somewhere in the middle. To get down to it, let’s see some actual facts and concepts that can be useful in the real...
What is social learning?
‘Social learning’ has been the elearning buzzword du jour for a couple of years now and people often ask us exactly what social learning is. I think Marcia Conner captures it perfectly in her definition as follows: Social...
The Democratic Workplace
When we hear the word “democracy” we usually think “politics.” So how is organizational politics different? Worldblu.com (a global network of organizations committed to practicing freedom and democracy in...