discussion groups is heating up again between TrDev and Blogs vs. If you are interested in this discussion, it's probably worth looking back at some prior posts on this topic such as: Community Blogs - Maybe I'm Finally Getting It Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community? eLearning Discussions - An Attempt at Better Discussions in the Blogosphere Move from Discussion Groups to World of Blogs? Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog I found it inside my blog reader! Blogs vs. The debate about blogs vs.

This is much like all the discussion around personal productivity tools, but in this case it is more focused on research oriented work that requires learning as a component of the activity. There's a great deal of discussion about whether or not a PLE should be a single tool or a collection of tools loosely joined. But I think we need to add to this discussion more around the specific I've run across a few different posts talking about Personal Work and Learning Environments which I have tentatively started to call PWLE - pronounced p-whale. Tom Haskins in PLEs are power

Firstly, use the induction period to get them used to not only working and talking in the online environment, but also engaging online (collaboration, tests, discussions, etc). Delivery: Blog (best), Wiki, or Discussion Board. Delivery: Wiki, Blog, or Discussion Board (best). One aspect of learning online is that the students will feel distant and isolated from not only you (the Institution and staff facilitator) but also from each other. So, what can you do to make them feel included and valued?

I've been involved with several different groups of people who are having different kinds of discussions that happen among bloggers. The most common models of blog discussions seem to have turned into a few patterns: Organic Blog Discussions - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Discussion Group Hub - questions/topics are raised via the discussion group and can Blog Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example.

There's some great discussion happening around the issues of control and resulting ownership of work product as we create personal work learning environments. Enterprises that love PLE's Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning corrupt? Stephen Downes Work PLEs internet futures and social relations Jay Cross - Nonsense from Stephen Blogging Inside or Outside the Corporate Firewall Stephen Downes Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion Jay Cross - Semantics & the first place Personal Work and Learning Environments PLEs are power tools

Discussion Management Tips for Online Educators By Jo Macek September 25, 2009 I started teaching online classes more than 10 years ago. After attending education conferences, reading books about online teaching, and receiving a wealth of student feedback, I developed several techniques to manage discussions in my online classes. Using current events sends a signal that the information discussed in class is relevant to todays My training with Davenport University in 1998 consisted of five weeks of online and on-campus "how-to" workshops about using the technology.

I recently had a great conversation with Becky Barch, a performance consultant at the Bank, about her smart application of discussion forum software from ElementK. The forum is targeted to a small group – loan/lending assistants. This individual ended up fielding all of the calls. Becky turned around and used a discussion forum to make the situation better. Looking at Capital City Bank from the outside, I wouldn’t have expected to find a great example of social learning inside. They are a solid, conservative bank. They have more than 1,100 associates spread out

A really great comment came in during the holidays relative to the post: eLearning Technology: Move from Discussion Groups to World of Blogs? Craig said something that has troubled me for a while: Blogs are not that great as a platform for discussion. partly agree with him in that I've felt for a long time that the Blogosphere is a loose conversation and lacks the single location effect that you find in discussion groups. Happy New Year (with usual caveats for Chinese New Year)! Let me ramble a bit here and then there's something really good at the end (at least I think so).

It only makes sense that we begin this blog with a definition that can help drive a very important follow-up discussion. This can also help us make sure that we’re all talking about the same thing when we discuss this topic. What is Performance Support? We need to work together to clearly define the scope of this practice we call performance support.

You may be interested in a podcast produced a few months ago by IT Training magazine in which Paul Stevens of Assima UK and myself discuss a variety of issues relating to the design of e-learning content. You can download it from the IT Training podcast page - it's episode 9