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Entries Tagged as 'social impact of e-learning'

Shiny new technologies used by dusty old professions

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments

I hadn’t planned on blogging about informal learning today, but an article in Irish e-zine Silicon Republic interested me, and I thought I’d bring it to you.

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Tags: Knowledge Management · Social Constructivism · content delivery · culture of learning · e-learning · educational media · knowledge sharing · multiple channels · new economy · organizational development · organizational learning · organizational style · read/write web · social impact of e-learning · social learning

Social Software: the Runtime Effect

November 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In yesterday’s post I alluded to the idea that Barack Obama’s recent US Presidential Election win could, in no small part, be attributed to his effective utilization of social media, including the use of tools and technologies like YouTube, Facebook, blogs, and even PayPal (and other online payment solutions). Citing James Surowiecki’s 2004 text The [...]

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Tags: Noam Chomsky · Propaganda Model · The Wisdom of Crowds · e-learning ecosystem · social impact of e-learning · social networks · social software

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: April Update

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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Tags: content development · credit crunch · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: April Update

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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Tags: content development · credit crunch · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

Do Generation Xers learn differently to Boomers and the Internet Generation?

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments

A colleague asked me recently “do you take somebody’s age into account when designing and delivering training for them?”
As a learning professional in the IT industry, it’s my job to provide learning resources for the employees in my organization. Broadly speaking, my colleagues were born between 1965 and 1982 – the so-called Generation X cohort, [...]

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Tags: Social Constructivism · educational media · experiential learning theory · modes of learning · social impact of e-learning · social learning · social networks

Do Generation Xers learn differently to Boomers and the Internet Generation?

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments

A colleague asked me recently “do you take somebody’s age into account when designing and delivering training for them?”
As a learning professional in the IT industry, it’s my job to provide learning resources for the employees in my organization. Broadly speaking, my colleagues were born between 1965 and 1982 – the so-called Generation X cohort, [...]

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Tags: Social Constructivism · educational media · experiential learning theory · modes of learning · social impact of e-learning · social learning · social networks

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

Recession and the challenge to e-learning

February 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments

A colleague in an area of business other than the learning industry asked me a few days ago; “Do you think that e-learning will survive a recession?”
My initial response to her was “there’s no recession… yet!” Later, I reflected on the implications of the current economic slowdown (whether or not it turns into a recession) [...]

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Tags: content development · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

Recession and the challenge to e-learning

February 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments

A colleague in an area of business other than the learning industry asked me a few days ago; “Do you think that e-learning will survive a recession?”
My initial response to her was “there’s no recession… yet!” Later, I reflected on the implications of the current economic slowdown (whether or not it turns into a recession) [...]

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Tags: content development · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning