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People are now using the internet to communicate and interact in a completely different way. People want to be heard and understood and this has implications for social learning. This presents both opportunities and challenges for learning, education and training professionals. Is the new role for learning and development as brokers for learning, connecting people to each other and to other sources of learning and not just providing formal learning opportunities?

"A learning tool is a tool to create or deliver learning content/solutions for others, or a tool for your own personal or professional learning. Here is the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 as voted for by 582 learning professionals worldwide."

"Learning networks come in a variety of different kinds. First, there is the personal variety, the personal learning network or PLN, which the individual person sets up and maintains, and provides him or her with  a view of or a lens on the outside world. Examples are the well-known social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, or more specialised social media, tied to your specific needs. The second kind of learning network takes the opposite perspective, not from the inside out but from the outside in. They are organisational learning networks and they try to cater for a more or less well delineated group of users.

Jane Hart, Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies and the Social Learning Centre

"This is the 6th annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list I am compiling from the contributions of learning professionals worldwide.  Now over 400 votes in!"

Over 2,000 tools for learning and working in education and the workplace

Curation tools and web services designed to create learning paths, curriculums, thematic collections and PKM portfolios

Here are a number of examples of how people and organisations are using social media for social learning - both INTERNALLY and EXTERNALLY - in order to improve job, team and business performance and productivity.

A resource for anyone that wants to learn more about curation and learning.

Network learning, or personal knowledge management (PKM), is an individual, disciplined process by which we make sense of information, observations and ideas. In the past, self-directed learning may have involved keeping a journal, writing letters or having conversations. These are still valid, but with digital media we can add context by categorizing, commenting on, or even remixing information. We can also store information for easy retrieval as we need it.

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6th Annual survey of top 100 tools for social learning.

"Now it's easier than ever to unleash the full potential of iPad in your classroom by creating your own courses for iPad. You get to share your ideas in a powerful new way, and your students get a rich, immersive learning experience using the iTunes U app for iPad. iTunes U is available no matter where you teach - at any college, university, or K-12 school."

The "Experiments" section of the Google Cultural Institute website includes a catalogue of how they have been attempting to apply "machine learning" to the question of organizing artworks.

Curating the information available within an organization is a growing need, and one that learning and performance professionals need to be able to address. We need to be the people that organizations trust to help replace the endless noise with clarity.

Next session: 20-31 August 2012 Over a two-week period we will be looking at how to use a number of different social media tools for your own professional development purposes. There will be 6 web-based assignments, which includes three live activities - as shown in the detail below. (Please note, none of the activities in this online workshop are compulsory; you choose to work on whichever you feel fits your needs.) This online workshop is suitable for those working both in workplace learning as well as in education.

Personal Knowledge Management

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Welcome to Cloudworks, a place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences.

We are bringing together some of the smartest and most passionate social media experts to train you on core social media topics that you can learn, implement, and monetize right out of the gate!