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JAY CROSS MARCH 31, 2012  50 Learning Theorists in 50 Days Donald Clark is blogging about 50 learning theorists in 50 days. It’s a rollicking good read. Of the thirteen he’s covered thus far, Donald has pointed out that: For Rousseau, “It’s hard to see a man who handed all five of his children up to an orphanage at birth, as an expert on the development and education of children. In about a month, it will be my turn. Just Jay | LEARNING WITH E'S MARCH 31, 2012 Libraries without walls I recently wrote about how libraries are adapting to the digital age. The traditional library is viewed by many as a place for stacks of books to gather dust, and where stern librarians in tweed jackets tell you to keep quiet. Libraries are shaking off this image, and embracing new technologies and approaches to support learning in the 21st Century. In Library 2.0 I outlined some of the changes that are taking place in libraries as they align their services toward technological developments such as the digitisation of content, social media and the widespread use of mobile devices. | LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB MARCH 31, 2012  Employees are often laughing Tweet. Here’s a modified version of theses 11 to 13 of the Cluetrain Manifesto (1999), for all those corporate personnel support functions (HR, L&D, OD, KM): People in a networked society have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from the human resources department. There are no secrets. And whether the news is good or bad, they tell everyone. What’s | CONNECT THINKING MARCH 31, 2012  Workshop, E-Learning or Video? A question of strategy Question from a client: We’re rolling out workshops about a new people development process. We want to use e-learning to reach the people we miss. How should we go about it? Should we use e-learning via the LMS or video on the intranet? This is a good question. Of course the question should be linked directly to purpose, and all modalities should be planned concurrently. Workshop. Video. | | | | | | | |
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TOPYX SOCIAL LEARNING | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012  What Social Learning Success Stories Have in Common
Not all enterprises are the same. Neither is how to successfully deliver social learning resources to enhance output, retention and collaboration. In January 2012, an article from David F. Carr posted at The Brainyard shares some of the secrets of successfully bring bringing social networking to enterprise environments. One point that David F. Carr makes in the piece is “One secret: Don’t fall into the trap of believing that people will easily adopt an enterprise social network because of the parallel with consumer social media.” You can read the full article at : [link]. MORE >> -
ONEHUNDREDFORTYWORDS | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012 The Myth of the Sophisticated User
This post on Smashing Magazine gets right at two things I’ve occasionally heard people assert or assume in instructional design and interface design circles: 1) that poor visual/interaction design can be excused for “sophisticated users” (sometimes couched in “digital native” terminology in our field), and. 2) that poor visual/interaction design can be compensated for with a few onscreen instructions (or a How to Use This Course screen). Having a proficient audience is no excuse to slack off. More Share/Save Options. MORE >> -
EASYGENERATOR | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012  Involve your experts: new subscription model easygenerator
Easygenerator offers lots of facilities to involve subject matter experts in the authoring process ( see previous post), but there is always the problem of buying licenses or subscriptions for them. One of the characteristics of subject matter experts is that they will often contribute to specific projects for a short period of time. Easygenerator now has a new 'concurrent' model for this specific group of users that solves this issue. Users in easygenerator will be assigned with a role. We have two roles specific for subject matter experts. will explain this with an example. MORE >> -
ECONTENT | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012  Google 3D Graphing
Via my son. Erik, who is finishing up his BSEE this Spring, I learn that there are a few things I do not know about Google. Try this! insert into Google): sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5. Here is another example, with the image! click to maximize). cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+10. --. knew there was a reason I paid thousands and thousands of dollars to allow Erik to get his engineering degree. to keep me informed about Google's latest tricks! College Search Web/Tech MORE >> -
LEARNFOREVER | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012 Problems with platforms
A few days ago I was chatting to a client who had problems with platforms. Her new learning platform was taking time to bed in (to put it politely) and there were all sorts of compatibility issues with her enterprise-wide platform. To make matters worse, the (so-called) learning platform had virtually no learning evaluation capability. don’t blame her. Why spend tens of thousands of pounds on yet another “bespoke solution” that is really just a generic platform with a bit of branding and limited interoperability? Read Digital Technology Applications. Has anyone else had similar problems MORE >>
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