E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. Over time, content providers will supplement their core offerings with live webinars, interactive exercises, discussion forums, wikis, social networks etc. Faculty who don’t generate a flow of new knowledge for their students will have their tenure terminated.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 18, 2009

Instead, I tweet about the enlightening article I found on the web, or the informative video clip that I watched on YouTube, and I follow others in my industry who do the same. Tags: Twitter social media social networking blogging cartoon humour participatory culture twibes. • VideoGamesAsLearningTools.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2009

Following on from my previous article , below I share some of the key messages that I drew from Day 2 at the LearnX Asia Pacific conference held recently in Sydney… Personal Professional Development: I expected the keynote by Stephen Downes to be the standout session of the event, and I was not disappointed. See you at LearnX 2010!

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 31, 2009

You’ll notice that I’ve haven’t added the icons to my individual articles – except this one! While I realise there’s a difference between sharing a whole blog and sharing a specific article on that blog, I’m wary of overkill. The cool icons decorating this article were created by DryIcons.com.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In the comments section of my previous post, Mike Caulfield kindly pointed me to the article Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network by Jonathan Mott. I was immediately interested because, like me, Mott is striving to bridge the gap between the organisation’s LMS and the learner’s PLE.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In my articles Online courses must die! I’m in two minds as to whether a full-blown social network is useful for internal learning purposes. Heeding the advice of Bill Brandon , I will now flesh out that idea with an illustration of how it might be implemented in a real organisation.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In my previous article , I proposed a Taxonomy of Learning Theories to organise a few of the myriad of theories into some semblance of order, and to assist instructional designers in using theory to inform their work. • Create a social bookmarking account. • Encourage social networking.

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