social learning

- Maureen Downey  for the AJC Get Schooled blog From the board of Regents on proposed consolidations of eight campuses, which are bound to spark political battles, turf wars and naming feuds: University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby is recommending to the Board of Regents that eight of the System’s 35 colleges and universities be [...]

By Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown, Published: November 26, 2011 WashingtonPost.com A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers — in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense — is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight. K12 Inc. [...]

Education officials in Nebraska have launched a pilot program for their first statewide virtual school. Today is the first day that school districts can apply to have students participate in the virtual school, called Nebraska Virtual Scholars. Fifty high school students will be accepted to participate in the pilot. Up until now, students in Nebraska [...]

Gilfus Education Group Announces Webinar on Developing a Productive Workforce from 2011 to 2020 “Workforce Development: Transitioning from 2011 to 2020” Washington, DC   (Thursday, August 11th, 2011) – Gilfus Education Group announced today that it will offer a webinar titled Workforce Development: Transitioning from 2011 to 2020.  Attendees will be provided with an overview [...]

By Jim Tice - Staff writer http://www.armytimes.com The eArmyU civilian education option that has provided distance learning support services to 64,000 soldiers over the past decade will be shuttered next year. The 1,429 soldiers enrolled in the program today may continue to register for eArmyU courses until March 31, 2012 even if a course runs past the shutdown [...]

Authors: Frank Ganis, Stephen Gilfus Foreword The Gilfus Education Group predicts that over the next few years, educators will make great progress in combining existing technology capabilities with the practices and theories of learning communities to develop a vigorous community learning platform which enables a richer set of educational experiences and facilitates the positive effects [...]

As social learning experts have proven again and again, learning can be more productive if there is clarity about which role models to emulate. This is analogous to being informed about which news sources can be trusted for their reliability and credibility. Moreover, tools are also needed to administer and deliver rewards and incentives whether they are compliments, stars, stickers, points or grades.

August 14th, 2009
While on the exhibit floor at NECC 2009 (The National Education Computing Conference) in late June in Washington, DC, I overheard an intriguing conversation about “social learning.” A very distinguished looking university professor was talking with a small group of graduate students. The professor pointed out to her younger colleagues that scores of exhibitors were promoting solutions for “social learning,” but that the vendors were misappropriating a term that had been established in the education field for a very long time.

She complained that today’s technology companies were simply cobbling together social networking tools such as blogs, wikis and bookmarking tools, pawning them off as “social learning” innovation. As an
e-learning innovator with over a decade of experience in the education sector, this conversation reminded me that several core educational principles were not being thoughtfully considered.

August 3rd, 2009
Stephen Gilfus, a former founder of Blackboard inc, and a well known figure in the eLearning industry, today, that the Gilfus Education Group is sponsoring the “Social Technology and Education Conference”,
August 14th @ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

March 1st, 2009
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