Here are 6 Social Learning Platforms you can enable 'On-Demand' A few weeks back you may have read my recap of Jane Hart's webinar on choosing the right social learning platform. Jane outlined a variety of parameters that you should use to select your social learning platform - I've tried to summarise them in the picture above. Now before you run off to find yourself a social learning platform, let me play party-pooper a bit.
The fewer boundaries you place on social learning, the better. If all you want to do is create a walled garden where along with your course resources, you can provide students an opportunity to have discussions, collaborate using blogs, wikis and collective databases, you're better off using one of the modern LMS's such as Moodle. OTOH, if you're keen on being in tune with the state of the art in social learning, you're perhaps better off using a full-fledged social collaboration platform. Cyn.in - Full featured Enterprise Social Learning Cyn.in comes from the makers of Sync.in - the hugely popular web based word processor. Wissenmanagen.net - Startseite. Using Drupal as a Portfolio Platform | FunnyMonkey - Click. Connect. Learn. This screencast describes how to use Drupal to create a presentation portfolio within a class blogging platform. The portfolio functionality we describe here can be replicated in just about any Drupal site.
While this screencast focuses on one user, this structure will work equally well for 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 users. At the risk of stating the obvious, you will have different design needs at each of these levels, but the core structure will scale upwards as needed. Note: For the full (and easier to see) video, download the original -- all 72M of it. In setting up the portfolio, we look at these main areas: Adding Content Using this model, people in the site are doing their daily work, and adding content as they go. Creating the Portfolio In this section, we describe how to add pages into the portfolio, and how to organize content that has been added into the site. Next Steps These steps are not covered in the screencast, but are worthy of mention.
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