Children from 5-12 build and improve basic skills with the best quality e-learning courseware.
:: Parents and educators have a pre-screened source of articles, research, and related links.
:: People in the business of education contribute their expertise.
via Dianne Krause
Gail Braddock describes e-Learning for Kids as "free e-courses for kids all around the world. This site has engaging and interactive courses for kids in online safety, computer skills such as using Google, typing, and core subjects like language arts, math, and science. Most of the courses are for elementary school-aged children, and involve dynamic avatars, and are highly interactive."
A social learning model will not replace, eliminate, or displace traditional formal learning.
The Embedded Model involves introducing social media inside formal learning content
In moving from instructor-led training to WBT, organizations have saved significant amounts of money from reduced travel costs
wrap social media
magine what might happen if we formalized these exchanges through social media. If learners want to discuss formal learning events or curriculum, let’s provide them with discussion forums and comment capabilities.
frastructure for these exchanges, this content becomes searchable and can be included in reports and analytics that provide more insight into the meta-discourse around formal content.
Many of us now reference blogs, wikis, discussion forums, and social networks for information in our personal lives, but far fewer of us have these same options in the workplace.
o matter how effective a training department might be, it will never have the scale of an organization whose entire employee base actively contributes ideas, expertise, and knowledge through vibrant social learning and workplace communities
In the Embedded Model, we’re simply reintroducing the social elements that used to be part of a typical instructor-led class—reflection, debrief, sharing of opinions and perspectives, and the discussion of best practices.
In the Wrapped Model, we’re providing a social platform for the interactions that already happen around formal courseware.
And in the Community Model, we’re providing a broader platform to capture social exchanges and social learning across any topic, not just those addressed in formal learning.