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Creating a lifelong learning network is essential for adults who pursue continuing education as means to advance their professional career or improve their personal life. Regardless of the reason for continuing one's education, an adult's knowledge needs to continually grow. The changing nature of today's society demands the necessity for gaining new skills, new understandings, and new intellectual orientations throughout a person's life.

What is LearnHub? This is a social learning network where people teach & learn online. Teach * Sell online courses & tutoring * Enhance face-to-face classes * Host discussions & debates Learn * Join communities on many topics * Find lessons, tests, courses, and tutors * Ask questions & get answers

commented and annotated by several people, including me -- Jared Stein's comments particularly helpful

Understanding how mobile, global and virtual social networks influence our interpretation of socio-cultural theories of learning might allow us to better understand the interplay of settings and contexts within which learning occurs and in doing so better understand how learning may be facilitated.

The influence of social network structure in low and long term organizational learning. Results suggest that when agents are dealing with a complex problem, the more efficient the network at disseminating information, the better the short-run but the lower the long-run performance of the system.

Fitzgerald, Robert and Barrass, Stephen and Campbell, John and Hinton, Sam and Ryan, Yoni and Whitelaw, Mitchell and Bruns, Axel and Miles, Adrian and Steele, James and McGinness, Nathan (2009) Digital learning communities (DLC) : investigating the application of social software to support networked learning (CG6-36). Project Report (CG6-36). Project Report

Network monitoring is the phrase used to describe a system that continuously monitors a network and notifies a network administrator though messaging systems (usually e-mail) when a device fails or an outage occurs. Network monitoring is usually performed through the use of software applications and tools.

great blog post about networked learning and a nice analogy with Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody"

Notes from Cheryl Lemke's COSN09 session "Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Learning: What the Research Says."

The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world. The consortium provides a distributed network of learning objects that meet quality standards. GLOBE aims to connect the world and unlock the 'deep web' of quality online educational resources through brokering relationships with content providers.

E-Learning and Social Networking Handbook: Resources for Higher Education Wiki

On Saturday PZ Sydney Network hosted Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church for a conversation about their new book, "The Power of Making Thinking Visible". What follows is a summary of some of the key messages from this conversation. You can watch the whole conversation above. For more learning opportunities like this visit the PZ Sydney Network or follow @pzsydnetwork on Twitter.

I'm a so-so fan of Skype. I've used it on an infrequent basis and have had more than a few dropped calls. Audio and video alike. However, it's a cheap way to make long distance calls and seems to work better over wi-fi and the video quality is improving on a regular basis. So therefore it's probably a great tool for the classroom. But how can you use Skype to do more than just make calls? Well, there's a pantload of interesting ways! Check out these fun ideas: Collaborate! Meet with other classrooms: One of the most common projects educators utilize Skype for is setting up exchanges with classrooms around the world, usually for cultural exchange purposes or working together on a common assignment. The program's official site provides some great opportunities to meet up with like-minded teachers and students sharing the same goals. Practice a foreign language: Connect with individual learners or classrooms hailing from a different native tongue can use a Skype collaboration to sharpen grammar and pronunciation skills through conversation. Peace One Day: Far beyond classroom collaborations, the Peace One Day initiative teamed up with Skype itself and educators across the globe to teach kids about the importance of ending violence, war, and other social ills. Around the World with 80 Schools: This challenge asks participating schools to hook up with 80 worldwide and report back what all they've learned about other cultures and languages. Talk about the weather: One popular Skype project sees participants from different regions make note of the weather patterns for a specified period of time, with students comparing and contrasting the results. Collaborative poetry: In this assignment, connected classrooms pen poetic pieces together and share them via video conferencing. Practice interviews: The education system frequently receives criticism for its failure to prepare students for the real world, but using Skype to help them run through mock-up

A 7th grade student gives a tour of her personal learning environment. This project was conducted as part of dissertation research implementing the use of networked learning and construction of personal learning environments in a 7th grade life science class.

Basic Steps to Become a Digital Marketer Attending Networking Events. Take advice from digital marketing professionals. Get an idea of the situation that the digital marketing field is heading in. They are mostly full of interesting events, workshops, and lessons. All ready to push you to enhance your skills and expand your understanding of why and what you do. Learning from Digital Marketing Brands and Entrepreneurs. The digital marketing experts have the experience, skills, and knowledge needed to create digital content. This is accessible for beginners since most of these experts are digital marketers themselves, they know exactly how to make their content easy to find on search engines and across social media platforms. Connect with Similar Thinking Individuals. As a digital marketer, developing communities online, is a large part of your career. Either online or offline, active digital marketing communities will help you know the importance of what you do and how it goes within the imagination of your business and your life. Gain real Skills Join a Digital Marketing Internship. An internship is often challenging. But around the right team of professional marketers, you will learn from both the mistakes and successes they've gone through over the years. An internship not only helps to enlarge your digital marketing resume and experience. But it will help you decide what you appreciate in a working environment. Have a Professional Degree. Having a professional degree is only achieved after completing a certificate program. These courses often cover important fields of digital marketing, including: SEO PPC marketing Email marketing Social media management Stay Updated on the State of Digital Marketing. The field of digital marketing is ever-changing, and digital marketers need to keep up. They need to know from popular online acronyms to how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting the way people use technology. Always need to stay up to date with valuab

What is edubuzz.org? Edubuzz.org opens a window on teaching and learning in East Lothian schools. It's the home of a district-wide networked learning community.

This page is a supplement to Mark Pegrum's seminar entitled Personal learning networks for students and teachers, delivered at the Big Day In, Navitas, Sydney, 29 July 2011.

Jon Mott recently published an article in EDUCAUSE Quarterly on Envisioning the Post-LMS Era. Jim Groom captures the reactions of individuals who have been exploring the link between learning management systems and personal learning environments. There is a sense - and I'll admit I felt it as well in reading the article - that many long-time contributors to the discussion were not referenced in the article. In theory, the review process should draw attention to important omissions of literature. However, most reviewers would likely not see the spaces (blogs) where much of the conversation happens before it jumps into mainstream as good sources. I've posted below that I wrote while at University of Manitoba addressing the LMS/PLE issue. I'm not sure how long an archive of their copy will exist, so posting it here might give it a bit more of an existence.

eLearningInfographics: The Best Education Infographics As founder of the eLearning Industry's network I am super excited with our new user-generated infographics site. A few months ago, several members of the eLearning Industry network contacted me requesting a website that would be dedicated to the best education infographics. Having this in mind, we formed a team of creative, hard-working, and passionate online educators. As a consequence, we just released the eLearningInfographics.com Submit Your Favorite Education Infographics