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Thursday, July 2, 2009
I've just trawled through the working and reworking of ideas spawned by Chris Anderson's book Free . It got a big response from the likes of Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin and on it went.... But what's important, according to the commentary, is that the notion of Free is enough to change how people think. However, content, it would seem, is where free really works. The discussions played out above centre on music, video, news and books.
 
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Watch Jane's entire slideshare presentation to get all of her key insights. The MASIE Center Provides a New Learning Leaders Fieldbook The MASIE Center recently announced their latest free e-book, the Learning Leaders Fieldbook . In addition to the text content, there is a series of podcasts about how the book's contributors became learning leaders and the "day-to-day realities of their unique roles.
 
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Clayton Christensen is well known for his work on disruption. His discussion of disruption at a systems level - i.e. how a new technology is able to develop on the edges of an industry and eventually reshape an entire field - is simple and intuitive. But last year, he co-authored wrote an aggravating little book called disrupting class (a lovely text of how great education could be if we could just get rid of the human element).
 

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Standing in a virtual book store requesting input on "Learning in 3D" book. Tony O'Driscoll and I have teamed up with Pfeiffer and are writing a book tentatively titled Learning in 3D which will discuss how to create and deliver effective learning through virtual worlds including implementation, design and evaluation. My questions to you are: "What would you like to see in this book?" "What questions do you want answered?" "What types of case studies would be of interest?" "What should be the focus of the book?
OK - so it is more of an e-pamphlet.  I took all of the questions and repsonses from December’s @slqotd and put them into an e-book. One downer of Twitter is that it is difficult to go back and see or archive the tweets.  This will help us to have a reference.  I hope you find it useful! If you have not joined us on the SLQOTD, please follow, we will follow you back and then join the discussion.  See you there!
E-Learning Concepts and Techniques E-Learning Concepts and Techniques is a collaborative e-book project by Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvanias Department of Instructional Technology students and guest authors. It was a project-based assignment for the online class, E-Learning Concepts and Techniques Spring 2006 and is dedicated in memory of Justin Bennett (1989-2006). It is also dedicated to those who love to learn as well as to those who inspire that love in others.
Traditional books are snapshots of that stream. The swifter the stream, the shorter the life of the book. A book is an event. We need a process that outlasts the moment - a movie in place of a photograph. "I AM OUT OF TIME. You bought the beta edition of this book. Things change so fast that all books are dated by the time they are published. The world is moving too fast for closure. Our lives are in beta." So began my 2006 book, Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance.
Not got into Twitter yet?  This book might tempt you.  Here's how it is described: "This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know to quickly become a Twitter power user, including strategies and tactics for using Twitter's 140-character messages as a serious--and effective--way to boost your business.
I've been dipping on and off into Patti Shank's new book The Online Learning Idea Book , which claims to contain '95 proven ways to enhance technology-based and blended learning'. On the basis that I had 95 chances to find something new to jutsify my investment in the book, I have persevered with my dipping in and out and have now taken a quick look at all of the ideas on offer.
Fortunately, the Fort Hill gang writes again. Where their blockbuster book, The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning , laid out a comprehensive process for getting training results, their new book ( Getting Your Money’s Worth from Training and Development ) provides a call-to-action for training’s most important players.
New online book on mobile learning -available for free download by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9 (online) Available: http://ro.uow.edu.
Today is the beginning of a 14 stop blog book tour. Below are the tour dates and "stop" locations. During the Blog Book tour, I will be not be posting on Kapp Notes , instead, I will be posting on the the blogs which are listed below... . Read it and enter into the conversation or, if you just have an opinion or thought on the topic go ahead and add a comment...have fun following the tour.
I've started using Plasq's Comic Life for Mac to develop quick references for some of our applications. They are getting shockingly good reviews from the end-users, even though I am still working on logic and readability. I figured I'd share a sample.