Obami Founded in 2009, Obami is a social network and learning management system for South African schools, teachers and students.
Early in his career, Hollender founded the Skills Exchange, in Toronto, followed by the Network for Learning, in New York City, which was later sold to Warner Publishing, a division of Warner Communications.
Sites like EdGate.com and Family Education Network aggregate learning content and offer free services geared toward parents in general, while sites like Homeschool.com, Homeschool World and Eclectic Homeschool Online target domestic education -- the latter two with a Christian slant.
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Furthermore, there should be massive network effects in digital learning, where the more people use a platform, the better and more useful that platform will become.
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The students are creating a network, motivating people to join their learning community, they are able to track inside this network who learns what faster than others, who is more knowledgeable in a certain field.
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"Over the past fourteen months, we have consulted widely and the manifesto is based on what we have learned from the 252 schools in our Learning and Performance Network and the many inspirational teachers introducing Shakespeare to young people, " Jacqui O'Hanlon from the RSC said.
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It reorients the learning experience to a network of connections, which is a fundamentally different approach to the pursuit of knowledge.
Catlett said Qwest Communications, the project's network service provider, was already learning more about high-speed transmission from its work on the project.
Lord Cullen said privatisation of the rail industry had fragmented the network so it "hampered the learning of lessons from accidents where different railway operators are involved".
Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends.
However, you could benefit from a little more time and energy spent on investing in your future by learning new skills and expanding your network.
Cohen believes that with the advent of social networks like Facebook, there is an opportunity to create an academic social network that uses the latest technology to enhance learning.
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Strong managers construct individualized reward portfolios (a point about with which Lawler and Worley agree, by the way) using elements like learning opportunities, project assignments and organizational network introductions to ensure that each employee has a comprehensive deal customized for his or her personal needs and circumstances.
The network is set up so that the participating companies are learning not only from their own eco-system.
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These are produced by consultants from federal universities belonging to the Literacy Teacher Training network and serve as the basis for official accreditation of learning outcomes.
This would entail effectively using the networks the school builds into the program experience, learning from their current cohort, leveraging the alumni network and tapping into the knowledge of faculty.
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By locating in these startup capitals, a new entrepreneur becomes part of a vast network, which is helpful for raising funds and also for the learning curve.
The network aims at transforming organizations in the private and public sector into learning networks of individuals creating value where the role of leaders includes the stewardship of the living rather than the management of the machine.
The national network consists of currently 47 documentation and information services in the area of adult learning and literacy in India.
Closely related to this will be an opening up of learning and probably a really significant change in terms of how high value information I shared across network more effectively.
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The first of what will be 60 or 70 Chinese from mainland companies have just set up in the St John's Innovation Centre: some to network, some looking for suppliers, some for joint ventures, some no doubt for customers, and all learning.
This new learning approach predicates on the idea that people are now starting to learn a whole lot more from their network of relationships and sources on their own while on the job, than they do from formal training and education.
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