Members of a learning community must have a desire to network, collaborate, and share information or the community will not thrive and will not drive business value. Some research findings and “experts” suggest that rewarding community members for meeting networking, collaboration, and information sharing targets (or punishing them for failing to meet such targets) is detrimental to quality, motivation, and attitudes. Learning or professional communities are “healthy” and beneficial to the organization when its members are intrinsically motivated to participate and contribute. What

Do the graduates of traditional universities know how to continuously learn and are they capable of collaborative and interactive working behaviours? In a recent CLO article written by Craig Mindrum, it is said that the most prevalent model for adult education is the corporate university – in terms of practical educational effectiveness. The article suggests that the corporate university has moved streets ahead of the traditional university.

Wiki sites, because they involve collaborative work, will suggest not only how much each contributor knows, but also how eager they are to share that knowledge and how well they work with others. Why is it so difficult to quickly find someone in my organization to answer a pressing question, provide advice about a procedure, explain how to use some software, or tell me where to find an expert, course, or document? I

Online collaboration? Sounds sort of stinky, doesn’t it? Well, according to the results of a broad-reaching survey done by Allison Rossett, professor emerita of educational technology at San Diego State University, and James Marshall, consultant and educational technology faculty member at SDSU, current elearning is a combination of old and new — but mostly old. The research is “broad-reaching” because five groups invited members to participate in the survey — groups that include

learning Other activities Collaborative writing Brainstorming Scavenger hunts Serious games Group projects Running a book club Multiple accounts and networks Synching networks Managing multiple accounts and networks READING LISTS Twitter   |  Micro-blogging I had a number of requests to separate out my Guide to 140 Learning into how to use the different tool, so this is my How to use Twitter for Social Learnin g. 

Tuesday, April 6, 2010: Presenting with Tony O'Driscoll on the topic of Learning In 3d: Adding A New Dimension To Enterprise Learning And Collaboration with the Training Network. Speaking with co-author Tony O'Driscoll on the topic of Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration on May 18 from 1:45 to 3:00 PM. May 24-25, 2010: Technology Assisted Learning Conference Here are some blog postings, presentations and up coming events that I am trying to keep track of so I decided to put them all in one place. Past Recently authored a blog entry