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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
It often requires some form of collaboration and may involve experiential learning, exchange of information and ideas, passing and receiving items to and from others, demonstrations, and presentations. There are only three questions I want to ask when I’m thinking about a virtual classroom system: Is it easy to use? How does it perform?
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
ability to combine classic educational shows, with collaborative-based learning experiences, with webcam/tele-presence-like features, with specific content that is indexed, searchable, useable and modifiable. Although I don’t personally watch them, is there a coincidence in seeing reality based television at the top of the viewing charts?
 
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
If you are trying to be a global player, and people are accessing from everywhere, why ignore the collaboration, content generating, communication sharing approach? As social learning continues to grow, LMS/LCMS vendors are taking various approaches.  LMS/LCMS vendors are following one of three approaches when it comes to social learning.
 

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As I mentioned in Real-Time Collaborative Editing , I had a fantastic experience participating in group editing of a Mind Map of collaborative tools during a session at Learn Trends. You can see the result below. But it was interesting to see the results exported which I've embedded below.
I enjoyed presenting my workshop entitled 'Collaborative and Co-operative Learning: The How and the Why' at Olympia 2 in London on Tuesday. Collaborative and Co-operative Learning: The How and the Why View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. Tags: LSG creativity collaborative learning Co-operative learning
We might want to think that technology is changing the way we collaborate and yes that's true! Managers are starting to think differently, staff definitely has a mind of their own and are more empowered each day and the focus on collaboration is much more than we saw even 3-4 years back. There's a shift happening and its all around us.
In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? Let me admit that I'm likely in over my head when talking about methods and tools for collaboration. Teamwork Tips and Skills Are We Really Collaborating?
I’ve been slicing and dicing our Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase and doing some online research in response to a question about collaborative rapid authoring tools that developers in multiple locations can use. Collaborative Rapid Authoring Tools: AuthoLearn (TrainVision Ltd.). Immediately heard back from two people. Ltd.). Ltd.).
However Amplify seems to be a much more effective tool for collaborative learning than any other freely available learning tools today. There are top 6 Features in Amplify that makes it an effective tool for collaborative learning. The features above do make Amplify an effective tool for collaborative learning.
Feeling like the exercise itself is the learning event -- not so much the listing of individual tools (although that's a bonus) -- but seeing how everyone's collaborating. Robin's Summary: Learning collaboration is all about trying new things, making mistakes, experimenting. The end of the content God. Very cool. What a whirlwind
We call a lot of these new internet tools “collaborative technologies,&# but are we really using them to collaborate? That Collaborate - “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor&# (Merriam-Webster). These are examples of collaboration of an entirely different sort. 
Step Two, or a concurrent step, would be to look at how to enhance collaboration. First of all, collaborative work tools must be simple to be effective. collaboration platform that is over-engineered would be counterproductive. Connect the LMS to a collaborative work platform. Does your LMS do this?
How can we apply these 5 laws of human nature, detailed in a recent New Scientist article , to help establish and maintain a thriving collaborative community online? In collaborative communities, this may translate to 80% of the dicussion being generated by 20% of the learners. Once established, perhaps then challenges can emerge.