Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2009

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for January asks what are your challenges, plans and predictions for 2009? Most of the cool stuff (informal learning, social media, games and sims, mobile learning) will have to stay on the back burner, because management will simply not be interested in experimenting.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

According to a Neilsen report, as quoted in A World of Connections , a special report in The Economist on social networking, in October 2009 the countries in which users spent the most hours using social media were Australia, the UK and Italy. For each of this top three, the average user spent over six hours in the month.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I continue my re-cap of the responses I gave to the questions posed at last week’s Battle of the Bloggers at Online Educa 2009 : Question 3 is: Is there a common language in the learning field? Is e-learning about the delivery of self-study lessons or about the use of social media at work? What can we agree on?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

In 2009 I predicted : Most of the cool stuff (informal learning, social media, games and sims, mobile learning) will have to stay on the back burner, because management will simply not be interested in experimenting. In 2009 I predicted : Classroom training will be decimated. This is hardly surprising as things stand.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

I've worked for many years with Moodle and Blackboard, but have had absolutely no contact with Sakai, so what he had to show us was interesting: In the development of version 3, they have borrowed ideas from social media sites and built these ideas into the VLE, rather than "going out into the wild."

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