Unfortunately my memory never serves me well, so when I reach my destination, it's all about planning for each day and relying on little, contextualised information sources such as the Lonely Planet website , Trip Advisor , a local map, street signs and my own senses. accept that we approach tourism and new hire training with different mindsets, but the fact is that both activities are eventually about learning. When I think of traditional new hire training, I see a similar phenomenon of information overload. articulate induction training social learning elearning MORE >>

He articulates his position as such: “…a one-or-the-other choice between the two is a false choice between knowledge-dissemination technologies and community-building tools. Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). The OLN model connects private and secure applications on the organisation’s network (such as the student information system, content repository, assessments and transcripts) to open and flexible tools and applications in the cloud (such as blogs, social networks and non-proprietary content) via a services-oriented architecture. MORE >>

Analyse the pre-information of your chosen mooc to ensure it will give you what you need. Sometimes they’re informative, so take notice. Participate actively in the discussion forum. More specifically, use your blog to articulate your learnings from the mooc. Concentrate your discussion activity on only one or two threads each week. Think of moocing as informal learning. Now that I have participated in a mooc, I am naturally qualified to dispense expert advice about them. You see, in postgrad you are left very much to your own devices. MORE >>

My goal is to create "mini" scenarios that can be answered regarding various pieces of information instead of one overall scenario for the course to be centered around. Last year I shared my use of the Carousel Engage activity to explain various WHMIS ( my activity) symbols. You can also find detailed explaination on how do to this from Dave Moxon's Articulate eLearning Blog - "How to embed engage 09 within quizmaker 09". Articulate (part 1). quizmaker Engage Interaction Dave Moxon ArticulateMy first struggle for this year's revamp is WHMIS. MORE >>

It’s important to think about the type of learning activity a particular tool ‘affords’. Mindjumpers is all about articulating for companies what each social media tool affords for them in terms of marketing; for me, its learning. could sum up the personal learning side of the mindmap by saying: You can use different social media tools to seek out knowledge/content, aggregate it so that you can store it/find it later in an organised fashion, reflect on this knowledge perhaps using visualisation tools and articulate it in writing. Happy new year. MORE >>