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Ward Cunningham: Ten Years (and more)

Jay Cross

Eugene Kim announced that Ward Cunningham was our opening keynote speaker for the West Coast WIki Conference. Only after the talk did he mention that Ward invented the wiki (1995) and is a prime mover in both the Agile Software Movement and Software Patterns. Using CamelCase links, a wiki can show conceptual interconnections.

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Wikipedia’s 10th

Jay Cross

Ward invented the wiki. Ward’s original wiki was geeky beyond belief. I mentioned that ten years ago, my glossary defined wiki as “a way to stop a conversation.&# So I asked Ward how he felt about today’s spiffed-up, user-friendly wikis. He was happy to contribute the wiki to the public good.

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Peeragogy

Jay Cross

This free, open, crowd-sourced wiki-book shows us the best ways to get there. In this essay from DMLCentral, Howard develops in detail one of the core concepts encapsulated in The Infotention Network’s learning approach. The Peeragogy Handbook. How to Use this Handbook. Working together is how things get done. My main contribution.).

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Hot topics in Working Smarter for the past 12 months

Jay Cross

Twitter as a professional development tool - Social Media for Working & Learning , November 30, 2010. Wikis and Learning – 60 Resources - Tony Karrer , July 13, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Augmented Reality – Explained by Common Craft - Lee LeFever , March 23, 2010.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. The exec secured a mandate from the executive committee to experiment with social networking in three areas of the company, international sales, manufacturing resource forecasting, and learning & development.

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Changing Cultures in Higher Education

Jay Cross

The message is cool: More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Folke (2010) emphasized the need for resilience, so people will anticipate change then influence developments to achieve societal and personal goals. At the heart of sustainable change is developing and helping people to build up an “inner resilience” that guards them from experiencing every change that comes their way as disruptive.