As followers of this blog and of our reserach well know, social learning is changing the learning industry in ways both explicit and implicit.   It is not surprising then that ELearning Magazine now includes a social learning tool category in its yearly awards.   What might raise some eyebrows, however, is the list of this year's honorees.   Despite yeoman efforts on the part of many of the learning systems and tools providers to develop social learning capabilities, there are no established learning industry representatives in this group. The winner: Atlassian and their wiki-based enterprise social software platfrom, Confluence Also recognized: Facebook and NING All three are general purpose social software providers - and two are free.
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