Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Asynchronous comms, using email, forums, social networks, blogs and wikis, allow us to regain control of our time. Synchronising diaries can be a nightmare, and meeting at the same time forces us to communicate at a pace determined by others.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

So what does it mean to be able to interact, as learners, using email, forums, wikis, blogs, social networks and the like? Was it sufficiently speedy and flexible to be desirable? It was a last resort. Quite a lot I reckon. There are considerable advantages to asynchronous learning: It allows time for reflection.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Social media tools, including forums, wikis, blogs, social networks To facilitate group collaboration within a formal blended solution. As a developmental activity initiated by the learner. As an output of learning activities carried out by learners working individually or in groups.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While I would still look to provide the maximum flexibility for the learner by providing resources online and allowing collaboration to take place asynchronously (through email, forums, social networks, blogs, etc), I now understand that live events are going to add something really significant to the blend.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

June's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks a personal question: How much time do you spend and how do you find the time for reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.? Let's start with blogging. But, unlike many people, I don't commit much time to social networking.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This month’s Big Question in the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is ‘How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation?’ Tags: social networking BigQuestion. How indeed? Those entering the workforce in 2010 have overcome these barriers and have higher expectations.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2009

You don't get this information from a presentation, a report, even a blog, yet somehow it brings you much closer to the real person - you feel like friends, even if you've never met. Once you have a relationship with your Twitter network, you can start to be a little more demanding. Tags: social networking Twitter.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

The rest are no better or worse at using technology than the rest of the population." " This certainly accords with my experience. Clearly there is a considerable body of opinion that is questioning the assumptions about net gen.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 13, 2007

There were some interesting stats in the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's People Management magazine last week, in an article entitled Face to face with social networking. Apparently, in the UK: 20% of firms use social networking sites to research applications.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

To make good use of the opportunities afforded by online learning, users also need some more specific skills, including the ability to search, to communicate appropriately using forums, blogs, wikis and social networks, and to study effectively on their own.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2011

In the ASTD Learning Circuits blog this month, they comment on the fact that, in many organisations, learners are reaching outside of the organisation to enhance their learning experience, through social networking and other media.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

The discussion centred on social networking: "The explosion of social networking sites in recent years has prompted some serious reflection on the state of modern friendship. Of the 16 hours that regular internet users spend online a week, 11 hours are spent social networking (hardly seems credible - maybe I misheard!).

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And anyone who participates in a social network – and that’s most of us – also performs a curation role whenever they tweet or post a recommendation to their friends or followers. It's generally acknowledged that only one in a hundred writes a blog or starts up a new thread on a forum. And the numbers don’t stack up.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 2013

Reading a book, watching a video, listening to a podcast, surfing the web or interacting with an e-learning programme are all asynchronous; so is communicating by post, by text messages, by email or through forums, blogs, wikis and social networks. Every organisation is different and needs to find its own balance.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

Media sharing at 48%, wikis at 47%, blogs at 45%, social networks at 41%, content ratings at 13%. Tags: social networking research. Practically all the responses are interesting because they are, at least for me, unexpectedly high, even Twitter down at the bottom with 12%.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Asynchronous collaborative activities, using email, forums, social networks, blogs, wikis, etc. These can be categorised as: The use of online content, in its many forms, typically asynchronously (self-paced). Synchronous (live) online events, using web conferencing, instant messaging and so on.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

If e-learning is a fad then here's what we are going to be doing without when the fashion changes: web conferencing e-assessment collaborative distance learning social networking wikis blogging and micro-blogging podcasting games and simulations forums instant messaging and the whole World Wide Web!

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

A portfolio of learning assets was created, which included ‘above the line’ learning interventions (instructor-led classroom and online classroom) as well as ‘below the line’ (e-learning, email and phone support, with corporate social networking groups).

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2008

According to the announcement , Saba Social will incorporate "comprehensive social networking tools - blogs, communities of practice, wikis, discussion boards and social connection capabilities will enable people to conduct informal knowledge exchange, build connected communities and extend blended learning.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 17, 2007

Do we only subscribe to those blogs which are likely to support our own view of the world? This got me thinking, are we just preaching to the converted?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 31, 2007

Obviously I have a professional interest in social networking and am particularly keen to find out how well it can work both inside and outsie the firewall and in a learning context. We are taking social networking to an extreme where it will seem like too much of good thing. I am obviously not alone in my aspirations.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Around the table were Don Taylor (looking intimidatingly smart as usual - just look at the photo on his blog!), Now the eLN has a 20-year history of face-to-face networking events, but ironically has never got its act together online. I hope Barry will excuse me if I say that creating the site is the easy part.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things? Become a participant.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

The author makes a good job of explaining why synchronous events complement asynchronous methods (self-study materials, forums, blogs) within a blended solution, rather than competing. This has been my experience too.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2008

laden with musicians trumpeting blogs, wikis and social networks. But, as ever, there’s little chance of much peace and quiet, because there’s always another bandwagon not far behind. In the case of blended learning, following it into town came the bandwagon snappily labelled Learning 2.0, After all, the Learning 2.0

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 5, 2008

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as learning professionals?' Technology obviously plays a part here - by providing employees with the necessary tools, such as social networking software, wikis, blogs, search facilities, RSS, forums, rapid development tools, etc.,

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In retrospect, Nick realises that it was a mistake to assume that people would engage with an internal network in the same way some would outside the firewall – blogging, cross-linking to each other’s resources and so on. Nick is a board member of the Institute for IT Training and a regular conference speaker.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Online, learners collaborate using forums and two, one-hour synchronous sessions; they have their own blogs in Moodle (not used as much as I would have liked); they can, of course, also contribute to the glossary and the wiki. This may sound like a lot, but if a learner was to consume the lot, it would take a couple of hours, perhaps three.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2007

A relative few do the blogging, a minority contribute to the debate and the rest are happy to read what others have to say and keep their opinions to themselves. But I bet the numbers are shifting as more people become confident in publishing their thoughts online in social networking sites and forums.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2007

What's more, when the NetGen finally go to work (assuming they do), they will bring their social networking habits with them. Few of them go to conferences or otherwise participate in professional associations; even fewer blog, contribute to wikis or use forums. yes mass collaboration is changing everything.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Asynchronously there’s been similar progress, with email, forums and newsgroups; the World Wide Web; social networking using blogs, wikis and podcasts; as well as the ability to send simple text messages to each other using our mobile phones.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

By applying realtively informal methods - blogs, wikis, communities of practice, coaching, webquests, etc. After all, the World Wide Web, social networking, open source and other initiatives have emerged that way with huge success. But as Jay points out on line one 'You bought the beta edition of this book.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2006

As the author explains: "If the node is critical (that is it is a hub or is heavily connected), weakening will only happen over a long period of time or through siesmic shifts across the whole network."

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Bring together forums, blogs, wikis and other social networking tools and every learner becomes a teacher, and content is co-created as an output from learning rather than a formal input. Compared to these achievements, the rest of e-learning seems like simple common sense!

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

They probably always have, but there's little to stop them now, with the widespread utilisation of blogs, wikis, social networking tools and the like. Informal learning has taken centre stage, acknowledging the obvious - that most learners do it for themselves. That was cathartic. Let's hope there's as much to say in 2017.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2020

This became the second most popular posting ever on this blog, so I thought I'd give it a further look. Back in 2009 , I posted a simple analysis of learning technologies based on Diana Laurillard’s conversational framework.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

In case you missed it, this is what he is saying: "In the age of instant messaging, wikis, social networking sites and videoconferencing on cell phones, collaboration and consensus are gaining yet more currency. When it comes to blogging (and probably a great many other learning situations), we really is more than me.

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