Comments on: Facebook for teaching and learning http://www.stylewalker.net/2008/11/10/facebook-for-teaching-and-learning/ Music, Lifestyle, Science Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:27:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gregor Gimmy http://www.stylewalker.net/2008/11/10/facebook-for-teaching-and-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-949066 Gregor Gimmy Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:04:32 +0000 http://www.stylewalker.net/?p=814#comment-949066 This is a very interesting topic. In my view Facebook is a place for friendships, that happened to have started at a University. (Remember that Facebook was closed to University students only for quite some time). Facebook is not a place to learn or teach, even though a few of hundreds of thousands of apps are about learning. Yet, learning is social - hence the need for a web where education happens in a more - "social network" way. I think traditional eLearning systems will change significantly in this regard. These next generation "Social Learning Networks" will have to be integrated with Facebook. Just like any school has places to teach and places to be with friends. We at Sclipo aim to build such Social Learning Network. We have built a series of learning apps (course manager, web classroom, etc.) into a social network structure. And we have integrated with Facebook through Connect. I invite you to check out Sclipo and would love your feedback. Here a quick overview of Sclipo: http://sclipo.com/documents/view/4310 This is a very interesting topic. In my view Facebook is a place for friendships, that happened to have started at a University. (Remember that Facebook was closed to University students only for quite some time). Facebook is not a place to learn or teach, even though a few of hundreds of thousands of apps are about learning.

Yet, learning is social – hence the need for a web where education happens in a more – “social network” way. I think traditional eLearning systems will change significantly in this regard. These next generation “Social Learning Networks” will have to be integrated with Facebook. Just like any school has places to teach and places to be with friends.

We at Sclipo aim to build such Social Learning Network. We have built a series of learning apps (course manager, web classroom, etc.) into a social network structure. And we have integrated with Facebook through Connect.

I invite you to check out Sclipo and would love your feedback. Here a quick overview of Sclipo:
http://sclipo.com/documents/view/4310

]]> By: Facebook for teaching and learning http://www.stylewalker.net/2008/11/10/facebook-for-teaching-and-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-754297 Facebook for teaching and learning Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:27:41 +0000 http://www.stylewalker.net/?p=814#comment-754297 [...] produce more steady output. Partly we cover basics, partly more edgy ideas. This one is a classic, Thomas about how Facebook can be of value for university education: Social Communities have grown rapidly [...] [...] produce more steady output. Partly we cover basics, partly more edgy ideas. This one is a classic, Thomas about how Facebook can be of value for university education: Social Communities have grown rapidly [...]

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