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LEARNDASH FEBRUARY 17, 2013  5 Reasons Why MOOCs Provide Little Real Value Lately there have been a lot of articles and opinions circulating the internet on why massive-open-online-courses (or MOOCs) are the next greatest thing, but I’m not entirely convinced that is the case (not yet anyhow). Let me just say that I think MOOCs are pretty exciting – but I am wondering if we are getting carried away too soon. Consider the following: 1. have mixed emotions here. | JAY CROSS FEBRUARY 17, 2013  50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (3) 50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10. Part 3 (Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 ). The 20 percent: learning through others. Learning is social. People learn with and through others. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. Effective managers encourage their team members to buddy up on projects, to shadow others and to participate in professional social networks. smiled. What worked at Google. | VIPLAV BAXI MEANDERINGS FEBRUARY 17, 2013  Serious Games Singapore Conference Videos A little delayed, but here are the two videos from the 2012 conference in Singapore. The first one is a panel discussion on how to monetize serious games where I flipped the discussion to “why monetize – what is the value that we are bringing to customers” instead. The next one, is my pitch for standards in Serious Games and Simulations. elearning 2.0 | LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB FEBRUARY 17, 2013  Social learning is how work gets redesigned in the network era Jon Husband referred me to a 2005 paper by Martin Weisbord, Techniques to Match our Values (PDF) that discusses the shifts in approaches to work design over the past century, from scientific management, to socio-technical redesign, to “whole system in a room” The paper is a must-read for anyone involved in organizational design & development. Values move like glaciers. | | | | | | | |
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LATITUDE LEARNING BLOG | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2013 LMS Free Training - New Administrator Welcome Webinar: February 21st, 2PM EDT
Latitude Learning announces our next Free Training Webinar , designed to welcome new LMS administrators to the Latitude Learning LMS. This FREE course provides an overview of the Latitude Learning LMS and its administrative features. Make plans to attend.February 21st - 2:00PM Eastern Time MORE >> -
LEARNING WITH E'S | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2013  Learning is changing
Learning is changing. In some ways learning has no need to change. In other ways, it is vital. The human race still has an innate desire to discover, to survive, to innovate, to explore. As we get older, we consolidate what we have learnt, modifying our knowledge and skills as new information and techniques become known to us. What we learn in formalised settings such as school, college and university is merely the foundation of our knowledge and the rudimentary skill sets that enable us to build our own minds and construct meaning, through individual and social contexts later in life. MORE >> -
JAY CROSS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2013  What it’s like to endure 7 weeks of amnesia
This is a funeral for a life snuffed out before its time. have to have closure. must start anew. My online jounral goes back to ’82. Some annual files contain hundreds of pages of ideas, observations, confessions, and diary stuff. The notebooks contain drawings and to-do lists and diagrams and scribbles and anything that comes to mind. weed them out every five years. For the last year, I’d gotten into pouring stream-of-consciousness words into the 2012 Pages file. Feeling hip, I put the file in Apple’s cloud. wrote and drew page after page. It was missing an index file. MORE >>
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