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Aug 21

L2A Links for August 21st

Avoid Project eLearning and LMS Project Failure –
Facebook Guide for Educators – This guide, written in collaboration with many organisations including Apps For Good and the Gates Foundation, is “aimed at educators working with young people within schools, colleges, universities, work based learning, formal and informal learning settings.

Mar 13

Why Mobile Learning Is The Future Of Workplace Learning (Infographic) – I'm still quite skeptical. Given everything available on mobile, I'm not sure people will choose learning unless they have very strong motivation(s) to do so.
Less Trainers; More Community Managers and Curators – Synchronicity. I just whipped up a graphic for a client about moving learning teams towards becoming curators. I'll need to get that posted here soon.
Internet Time Blog : 195 posts about MOOCs – As we all try to interpret the MOOC madness, Jay does us the favor of gathering WAY too many reference points.

Jul 17

Oct 22

Disney’s Going Digital: Buy Once, Watch Anywhere – The slow boat of convergence is picking up speed.
U.S. Navy CIO: Social Media Should Be Part of Military IT Standard – U.S. Navy CIO Rob Carey wrote that social media is a resource for the American military that should be used to build trust and collaborate, both within and outside the organization.
How the Internet is Changing the Way We Will Watch TV: Scientific American – The slow boat of convergence continues to chug along…
Gartner: Loosen up on Social Networks, Security | Deep Tech – CNET News – The reality of enabling social networks marches on. From the article: "…corporate computing departments shouldn't block social networking and security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities wanted to shut down such activity, they couldn't. "

Jul 29

Report: Social Networks Growing while Other Social Media Sites Stagnate and Decline – RWW's sumamry of the interesting report from Universal McCann showing that the holistic social networking sites (Facebook, Orkut) are starting to absorb activity from the niche social media sites (Blogger, Flickr).
In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero – Josh Catone pulls together a number of great references to argue that: "The marginal cost of education is being driven toward zero due to social media and innovative approaches to online learning like OpenCourseWare, Flat World Knowledge, and the University of the People. That’s because the nature of information is such that it can be created once at cost and distributed and consumed over and over again for free."