USDA to Mix Social Media into Online Training
One of the leading online training programs in the federal
sector has an interesting idea to improve the completion rate and overall
quality of its online courses. The USDA’s AgLearn
program has plans to install social media and “Facebook-style” aspects to
their training program in order to provide a more traditional classroom structure
to the emerging world of online training.
Some of these aspects include blogs, wikis, groups, and comment/user
tracking.
OhMyGov recently spoke with Stanley Gray, the USDA’s
director of e-training, about this new idea and how it is coming along.
It is 2011 and USDA still blocks social media and does not allow use of facebook/twitter on official sites. I guess this post was never followed through! The new aglearn is barely usable.