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Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

Dashe & Thomson

Just as the corporate world thought they had caught up to adult learning norms with the adoption of eLearning, and some with blended learning, along comes social learning. Many accuse him of creating hasty generalizations, while others believe he provides wonderful insights about our world and ourselves.

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Four Industry Announcements

Kapp Notes

Ayogo is an award-winning serious games company that uses game design to educate and motivate healthy behavior. The same thing could be said about navigating through the world of e-Learning. All of the e-Learning specifications are captured- from SCORM and AICC to IMS, PENS and LETSI RTWS. It’s free- What’s the catch?

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Recent Second Life Happenings: Going Corporate

Kapp Notes

Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs , the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life. This annual award is intended to align with Linden Lab’s company mission, which is to connect all people to an online world that advances the human condition. Second Life is going corporate.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): What if "This is your brain on drugs".was a good thing?

Mark Oehlert

Im on board with that but then comes this article in The Escapist, " This is your brain on smart drugs." " So now Im thinking, wow, that really puts a Flowers for Algernon or Terminal Man spin on the whole "made not born" issue doesnt it? " OK.so was a good thing? Is it from The Edge or his book?)

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Choosing Media - Push vs. Pull - Part 1 of Many

Tony Karrer

In other words, what combination of documents, web pages, emails, IM, SMS, video, audio, podcasts, vodcasts, Faxes, RSS feeds, telephone calls, direct mail, blogs, wikis, recorded presentations, etc., In some cases, you quickly find that you have such limited choices that you are virtually forced into particular media. should I use?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content

Mark Oehlert

previous rants on this topic ) Until I get some explanations though, Im pretty well amazed at the academics involved in this scheme. Im feeling stupid here because I just dont freaking get it! Usually the "peers" who review articles, arent paid or theyre paid very little. I swear, I m just sitting here shaking my head.I

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Will Thalheimer and the Answer to Who Learns What from Where

Mark Oehlert

Maybe we all need to read SWAY: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior and try to understand how we got here. Will Thalheimer just brilliantly asked a great question - who do you learn from? He asked this of retail clerks but you have to wonder how different the results would be for the typical office worker population.