Great questions, great crowd, no big tech issues. Overview of this important immersive environment, discuss its advantages and disadvantages for corporate training, and show examples. Tags: multigenerational learning generational differences Brandon Hall Instructional Design generational issue Here are the slides from an online session I did yesterday on Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace .  This was the first time I presented on this topic and the first time I led a session using Saba’s Centra platform.

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

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

Whilst re-iterating these benefits this article will discuss and offer a solution to the task of managing social bookmarking learning activities. What this means is that your access to knowledge is increased dramatically, your knowledge and understanding will develop more quickly and your awareness of current issues will keep you up to date and at the forefront in your field. del.icio.us) tags” They add “This non-hierarchical Many educational benefits are attributed to the activity known as social bookmarking. Three reasons why teachers and students should join a social bookmarking

This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments for a bit of recap. Second - while I would expect Stephen to argue about the issue of control (see below for why corporations likely will want access, ownership, control), I'm surprised to see him argue that the same tools provide by the corporation or access completely independent of the corporation changes it from a PLE to not being a PLE. Tom Haskins has a series of interesting posts - on the topic: Enterprises that love PLE's Traits for creating PLE's at work The P in PLE First, I have to jump on the comments in these posts by Stephen Downes and Michelle Martin .

This relates closely to the discussion going on around blogs, discussion forums, communities, etc.: 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. Discussion Groups or Mis-Understanding Blog Reading and ... I just saw that TechCrunch added a forum to their blog. Many of the people posting into

Lonely Hearts column : Some fictitious lonely hearts adverts are discussed in a discussion board. Discussion Forum support video ] This is really just so they have something to read until we can sort their access issues! prefer looking at the number of students (or lack of) who had issues and needed I wrote the post " Online Induction: What can possibly go wrong? " as I was getting myself and the materials ready for a week of induction activities for new students to the online degree programme at Bournemouth University.