New Social Network Mapping tools
Comment: An addition to the post yesterday on SNA...this time Roland lists a variety of tools for visualizing social networks. I'm not quite sure how the concept of SNA fits into elearning (the role of SNA in organizations as a whole is very evident)...but I can imagine a simple add on to online learning courses that creates diagrams of the interaction that has occured between various learners (and as a result reveals correlation between interaction and learner performance). I believe I saw something like this several months ago (can't remember where)...
It'll really get interesting once we can transfer this concept to include not just visualization of learner interaction in a course, but the extended range of informal learning. It'll make it much easier to detail who we have to talk to in order to get to the heart of a particular subject matter...it'll save much of the fumbling around I currently do...:)