Does technology change the nature of knowledge? March 12, 2009 · Print This Article Purpose of this blog This is the first of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of three books: ‘ THE TOWER AND THE CLOUD ‘, ‘ CATCHING THE KNOWLEDGE WAVE ‘, AND ‘ THE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN THE UNIVERSITY ‘ (Click on the titles to see the reviews). No semantic or causal analysis is required. What is knowledge and is it changing? Where now? MORE >>

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. lack of consistent standards – many different approaches to analysis and design of learning solutions. Charles describes this as a ‘conspiracy of convenience’: performance analysis is not done or done poorly; business managers want ‘training’; training managers deliver it; no-one measures it. He set about finding out what was currently being spent on l&d. MORE >>

Ellen’s post focused on how new Learning Designers get “cranky” at the first mention of the ADDIE process (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation).   In 2001 that frustration was given voice in the seminal article “The Attack on ISD” by Jack Gordon and Ron Zemke in Training Magazine. But at the heart of all these processes are the familiar phases of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation,  albeit cycling through them many times along the way. Don responded with some great comments on how ISD (ADDIE) has evolved and adapted. MORE >>

de Lisle ) What is technology ? Bilton ) Theory of Technology What is educational technology ? Rowntree ) What is Instructional Technology ? Technical Communications (review by Lorraine Sherry) Prescriptive Design Models Algo-Heuristic Theory (Lev Landa) Algo-Heuristic Theory (Greg Kearsley) ADDIE: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation ADDIE Model (Robert Colston) ADDIE Based Five-Step Method Towards Instructional Design (Michael J. Malachowski) Continuous Process Improvement (Don Clark) see ISD see Front End Analysis A.S.S.U.R.E. MORE >>

then made the jump to University of Manitoba, started my phd (now finished), and continued developing courses and programs, including the certificate in emerging technologies for learning. Several prominent researchers and organizations are now exploring next-generation online and hybrid learning models based social networked technologies: Goodyear (2011); SocialLearn (The Open University) 2011; and OpenClass (Pearson, n.d.). Specific research questions to be addressed by the proposed Innovation in Learning and Technology CRC include: 1. 2001, May 17). Research Plan. MORE >>