Contribution patterns - most active contributors and methods of contribution, busiest days and times for contributing, frequency and amount of contributions by job, level, business unit, etc.  I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system.  There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals

Organizations are either actively considering or have recently started deploying enterprise social media to enable social learning.  Such Such companies have come to realize that key to their success are productive and vibrant learning communities. How healthy are your learning communities……really?  Old ways of measuring

The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are redefining scholarship as we grapple with issues of top-down control and grassroots scholarship. T oday’s learners want to be active participants in the learning process – not mere listeners ; they have a need to control their environments, and they are used to easy access to the staggering amount of content and knowledge available at their fingertips. Experience with and affinity for games as learning tools is an increasingly universal characteristic among those entering higher education and the workforce .

I wanted to share what one large organization has learnt about the need to employ “change management” activities and good GUI principles in order to increase adoption rates of a social network service. I read this on an internal blog from one of my client organizations.  I have removed the names of organizations and people in order to avoid any policy violations. 

Activities and interactions that occur in blogs, wikis and social networks naturally provide the cues that are missing from current expert locator systems. Why is it so difficult to quickly find someone in my organization to answer a pressing question, provide advice about a procedure, explain how to use some software, or tell me where to find an expert, course, or document? I

properly organised activity should get the students thinking about the task, not the tool! So, Induction & Icebreaker activities. Of course this is by no means an exhaustive list, and I'm happy to hear your activities, so please post below. Try to keep all your activities using tools already available to the students in the VLE or One aspect of learning online is that the students will feel distant and isolated from not only you (the Institution and staff facilitator) but also from each other. So, what can you do to make them feel included and valued?

Many educational benefits are attributed to the activity known as social bookmarking. Whilst re-iterating these benefits this article will discuss and offer a solution to the task of managing social bookmarking learning activities. Portability and Flexibility: Because social bookmarking websites can be accessed anytime from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection the opportunity to tag bookmarks, retrieve information from saved bookmarks and keep up to date with the tagging Three reasons why teachers and students should join a social bookmarking site 1. Accelerated

My approach towards scenarios When designing any kind of elearning, I like to use Cathy Moore's action mapping approach to first define the scenario-based activities. Tags: interactivity demos creativity scenario based learning activities learning elearnin So last week I tweeted an example of immersive learning scenario built entirely in Powerpoint and published using Articulate Presenter . Given that I saw the tweet travel a fair bit, I thought it might be a good idea to share some of the related ideas on this blog.

We were partly dissatisfied with previous activities we'd used, and on the other hand we also wanted to try our hand at something new. Since I was feeling inventive, I came up with a new Retrospective activity - "Eye on the future" . We tried the activity with great success in the retro that Jaggu was running; as did Rohith Rajagopal/ Siva Jagadeesan in the other retro that was running at the same time and apparently Pat Sarnacke tried this out in an end of release retro as well. Today, Jaggu and I spent some time debating the best retro format for a team that was taking some learning from a training program and was about to apply it onto a simulation.