I am excited to announce that I’ll be working with Tulser Business Improvers , beginning at the 1st of march! Stoas Learning. For 8,5 years I’ve worked at Stoas Learning. This was actually my first real job after graduating from teacher college. During my time at Stoas I’ve finished my masters in Human Resource Development at the University of Twente. Stoas facilitated me a lot in my final thesis project on Net-Generation learners. I’ve started my career at Stoas as a Questionmark Perception trainer/ consultant.  worked with Moodle (LMS), Exact Learning (LCMS). MORE >>

Yesterday I’ve met with Marc Coenders at the beautifull Media Centre in Hilversum. Marc is also a member of the CPSquare community and his doctoral thesis “Learning Architecture: an exploratory study of space and learning in work settings and close-to-practice learning&# is the focus in this week’s “Research and Dissertation Series&# of the CPsquare community. CP2 Research and Dissertation Series. The research series is a regularly recurring activity in the community in which a specific research of one of the members is being topic of discourse for a single week. MORE >>

Recently, a wonderfull paper on the value of communities of practice and networks was published. Etienne Wenger, Beverly Trayner and Maarten de Laat provide a conceptual framework that “should make it possible to assess value creation&# in communities that are used for social learning activities. In my experience, there is an emerging call from management and leadership to show results from community and social learning efforts. In my opinion this paper is a valuable and welcome addition to the literature. Instead of levels, the authors have used 5 “cycles&# in their framework: 1. MORE >>

This week, John Smith visited The Netherlands. John was on his way to a conference in Saudi-Arabia and wanted to adjust to the time zone (his words :)). Which is a great thing, so we had some time to spend with him. Sunday we had a great dinner at Marc Coender’s place and monday John, Joitske Hulsebosch and I organized a working session in Wageningen. We wanted to think about possible business models for communities of practice as well as for social learning consultancy. We used the wonderfull business model framework by Alex Osterwalder. link]. MORE >>

Lilia Efimova has done her Phd on the blogging practices of knowledge workers. As part of that, she has developed a framework for knowledge work. See the picture below. Yesterday (thursday 12 feb) I spoke a little at a CSTD workshop in Ontario (Canada) on the topic of personal knowledge management. Robin Yap invited me and Jeffrey Keefer for a short intermezzo via webcam (we used Adobe Connect). The question Robin asked me was: how do you make use of web technologies to get from idea to a blogpost? have found Lilia’s model very useful. Using Web Tools For Personal Knowledge Management. MORE >>