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Managing Learning in a Social World
Are you struggling to implement Web 2.0 technologies, tools, and services? Does your organization block access to social Web sites? If your answer to either of these questions is ‘yes,’ you might find a solution within a learning management system.
More and more, learning management systems are seeing the need to expand their solutions beyond a learning environment where classes and courses are the center of activity. Many companies are branching out into the Web 2.0 space where learners create more of an ad hoc environment that is loosely structured and more personalized.
Written by Janet Clarey, senior researcher at Brandon Hall Research, "How Learning Management Systems are Integrating Social Learning Technologies:
Review and Outlook" describes how Web 2.0 technologies are being supported by commercial LMSs.
Our current online repository of LMS information, the LMS KnowledgeBase 2008, provides data for traditional collaborative learning features such as discussion groups, chat, virtual whiteboarding, etc.
"How Learning Management Systems are Integrating Social Learning Technologies: Review and Outlook" goes beyond these traditional collaborative tools and examines how LMSs are integrating and embracing the following:
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Media sharing
- Peer rating of content
- Informal collaboration space
- Team calendars
- Expert exchange/locators
- Collaborative content development
- Search engines
- Tagging/bookmarking
- Private messaging
- Survey/polling tools
- RSS feeds
Some learning professionals are intimidated by emerging learning technologies because they do not understand how these technologies work or how they can be used to improve workplace learning. Others are using social learning technologies and see their value but struggle to implement them for a variety of reasons.
This report will provide you with an understanding of how new social learning technologies are being integrated into learning management systems, making adding Web 2.0 technologies to your learning strategy easy.
Discuss this report with the author, Janet Clarey.
Social learning technologies are a new approach, a state of mind. That’s one of the reasons we’re providing a NEW add-on to this publication: Direct access to the Brandon Hall Research analyst in a collaborative, networked environment.
After purchasing this report, you'll receive access to a new, collaborative, and social environment where you can ask questions, discuss the content, and share experiences with other learning professionals implementing social learning technologies.
This report is also available through
a membership to the Brandon
Hall Research Library. |
