ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

That pondering took me back to all the blog posts by various bloggers that have most influenced my thought process and my posts in 2009. Understanding Homophily on the Web (Bamboo Project: this blog was also my discovery of 2009) What did I learn: The Internet encourages the coming together of like minds. What is Informal Learning?

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Instructional Design Pattern Wikipedia Collaboration 137

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Before I plunge into the heart of my analysis and discussion, I want to share a couple of snippets on Networked Learning from Wikipedia. ( [link] Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another''s learning.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

I just finished reading Harold Jarche’s post: Seek, Sense, Share In the post, he talks about how seeking information, then applying our personal sense-making filters to it, and finally sharing it helps us to see the interconnections, patterns and the larger whole. Blogging has helped me to: 1. Responses to queries 3.

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

I know it''s a strange title for a post in this blog. And with this post, I am coming back to blogging after a longish hiatus. I had planned a month''s "blogging leave" which has stretched to almost four for various reasons--some of these being the absolutely new and challenging world of work I am currently in.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 9, 2010

This is an excerpt from Motivation is not what you think from the Internet Time Blog. In Informal Learning , Jay writes about knowledge workers as: I like to work on things I help create. Tags: Reading collaborative learning Reflection motivation informal learning. There will be a part II of this post once I am done with it.

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ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Today, everyone can easily gain expertise with access to information and the tools available to share and disseminate. The whole in this case is way greater than the sum of the parts and knowing how to acquire the necessary information is as if not more important than the specific information itself.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Learning Gets Social by Tony Bingham: Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems explains the huge opportunity the profession has in informal learning: “One of the things that has happened is that we have focused so much on the 10 percent [formal learning] that we abdicated the 70 percent [informal learning].

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

I was introduced to the work, ideas and blogs of most of the speakers via Twitter. Social, informal learning. I wouldn't be attending this conference if it weren't for social media. What I have learned in the last 3 years have been completely via social media.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 25, 2014

None of this is new information or insight. Refer to Harold Jarche’ blog for a deeper understanding of PKM. The organizational walls are porous such that the outside can flow in without too much of a challenge while sensitive information is protected. The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I have planned to document a few points in my blog for future reference and to capture my reaction to the book as I read it. For an expert, the information coming their way is grouped in larger and larger interconnected bits. Whereas, a novice gets mired in the details because, for them, each piece of information is a separate bit.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Faced with the tsunami of information, we are all floundering to find our way to content that actually matters. Rangaswami , in his blog The Confused of Calcutta , describes it thus: When a human curates, she does three things. She selects something (or things) from a larger group. She organises those selections cohesively.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months. Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time).

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Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

ID Reflections

MAY 25, 2015

I blogged about Getting Started with Working Out Loud. Beyond information sharing - "Working out loud" is not about sharing information. It is about providing the context to the information, the exceptions to the processes, the failed attempts and successes.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Readers of my blog know that I have written about this before since it''s one of my pet topics. Even when businesses invest in an ESN platform, most become ghost towns after the initial 2-month hype. I have attempted to share some of my thoughts and responses to the questions mentioned above. Why should employees collaborate?

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I have been following the discussion on Cammy Bean's blog around the post Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09. And identifying the critical information, highlighting it, and improving upon the media that explains or clarifies the content. A few of the comments that made me go, "Yes! I know what you are saying."

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2010

While this has been a momentous career shift for me, I may not have written a blog post on it except for the learning. Collaborative companies run on networks, those informal working relationships among people that cut across formal lines of reporting. I complete exactly 3 months at ThoughtWorks today.

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Agile Expertise Cognitive Collaboration 179

ID Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2014

Wikipedia With the rise of social and informal learning, and ubiquitous mobile devices (tablets, phablets, smartphones and everything in between), micro-learning as a concept and practice has taken off. Micro-learning thus lends itself to formal, informal and incidental learning. In short, micro-learning is the need. I don’t think so.

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Micro-Learning Informal Roles Wikipedia 222

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

I am putting up my answer here in my blog as well: Read on. Summative evaluation "provides information on the product's efficacy ( it's ability to do what it was designed to do)." After e-Learning delivery and deployment, how would you drive adoption? The link led me to a slideshow on user adoption of SharePoint.

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ID Reflections

JULY 17, 2009

How would you convince a "penny-pinching but valuable prospect" (a phrase from Cathy Moore’s blog: [link] ) the need for a training program you are recommending? As you talk to the client, you realize the training is much needed and has a huge potential—both for you and the client i.e., business wise as well as true value addition.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2011

byRohit Bhargava Returnof the Editor: Why Human Filters are the Future of the Web by Karyn Campbell Arecurators the missing thing in enterprise 2.0 approaches?

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Enterprise 2.0 Diversity Training Enterprise Community 184

ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

@ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis, which I have referred to: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera.

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Diversity Training Design Micro-Learning Theory 100

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2014

Going through my blog-roll, I read two related posts – Four Basic Skills for 2020 by Harold Jarche and Technology Changes Everything by Jane Hart. I will put up a post on the trip over the coming weekend. For now, I am focusing back on my other passion outside of traveling—workplace learning, enabling performance and social learning.

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Skills Cognitive Performance Support Culture 145

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

The premise of this post is that when an organization makes a conscious effort to bring in social collaboration and support their formal learning endeavors with more informal and collaborative sharing, it usually begins with the introduction of an enterprise collaboration platform. Mapping the training to typical use cases is also important.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Curation today takes on a new meaning in the context oftechnological affordance, information abundance, diminishing attention, hungerfor contextual and timely information, and constantly shifting, globally linkedlandscape. Curators are focused on information flows withoutthinking they’re leading or managing any community.

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ID Reflections

JULY 3, 2014

I loved this line in her blog: “ I want learning in our organisation to be personally owned but organizationally supported.” In the process of digging deeper, it is entirely possible to uncover information that the organization was unaware of and which could be a major cause of the issue being faced today.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 30, 2010

The dangerous bit is when we cherry pick and create mash-ups without the assimilation process, and pass on that patchwork of information with citation. It has become so very easy to pick a line from here, a sentence from there, a tweet from people I follow, throw in a link from a blog, and my case is made.

Social Networks 105

Social Networks Mash-up Mashups Culture 105

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Most organizations today recognize the needs of a distributed workforce and are investing in enterprise collaboration platforms to support their formal learning endeavors with more informal and collaborative sharing. However, this requires community managers who can facilitate activities on the platform.

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ID Reflections

JULY 9, 2015

I have tried to combine a couple of blog posts into these presentations: L&D Re-imagines - 21st Century Workplace Learning and Community Management - Towards a Learning Organization. Thus, in contrast to the fast-paced, real time, informal sharing on Twitter, SlideShare requires a more thorough output.

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Social Networks Slideshare Tools Cognitive 100

ID Reflections

JUNE 26, 2014

I love this definition of MOOCs by Ignatia Inge deWaard in her e-book, MOOC Yourself: “A MOOC is a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning /teaching/training on a specific topic in an informal, online, and collaborative way.” The base content is just a starting point for any MOOC.

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Diversity Training OCW Online Course 271

ID Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2015

They can be “semi-synchronous”: MOOCs can have a blend of modalities from videos and podcasts to reference links to blogs and articles, excerpts from books, whitepapers and so on. A set of videos accompanied by some reference links to blogs and articles, recommended books, podcasts, etc., can be put together to design a “program”.

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