Moodle Journal
JULY 4, 2005
Started the Moodle staff training this morning and after a few network problems the course went well. All the users now have a login and click-n-go guide for the summer holiday. Ran out of time and could not cover glossaries, but this will be a good test for the guide. Have setup a Moodle training forum.
The Learning Circuits
JULY 29, 2005
David's comments got me thinking. There is an emerging argument with which I disagree that goes something like: "Some of you are saying that computer games teach. If you say computer games teach, aren't computer games teaching violence?" My argument back is saying: Chess teaches you some general strategy. Chess does not teach you how to kill kings. We all must increasingly look at content through the lenses of linear , systems , and interface/cyclical.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 27, 2005
Designing sticky knowledge networks. Much of any organization's experience and expertise remains underused and underexploited simply because it resides not in databases, repositories, or manuals but in the minds of its employees. The Neglected Receiver of Knowledge Sharing. Most knowledge sharing practices neglect the group or individual who will receive and hopes to leverage knowledge.
The Learning Circuits
JULY 29, 2005
I believe training should be one of the most important parts of an organization. Yet training is often (not always) one of the least important (if that is just perception, or reality as well, depends on the organization,). One thing I have tried to understand is why this discrepancy. One observation I previously posted was that training promotions often lead to career ghettos.
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The Learning Circuits
JULY 25, 2005
I decided that a comment to Ben Watson's blog on " How Bill Gate's is overhauling High Schools " would get lost. So I feel compelled to respond with another blog. I think Bill Gates is misguided. He is using an expensive technological bandaid to try and fix a system that is inherently broken. I'm not surprised at the frame he's using. Nor am I shocked at the results he's getting.
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The Learning Circuits
JULY 22, 2005
Over the past few years I have read several articles about the US$30B (that's right, thirty billion) Gates Foundation set up by Bill Gates to fund several key initiatives including improving education and global health. Of course you can do a lot of good with that kind of money and though I have read articles on the foundation it always seem to be more PR oriented than talking about end results.
The Learning Circuits
JULY 17, 2005
I was in one of my more introspective moods recently and I asked myself what I had learned in the past few years. The answer surprised me. Several years ago I decided to become a really great cook, a gourmet chef. Part of the reason was I hated going out to restaurants spending money on what I thought was mediocre food. The other part was to equal my wife's amazing culinary talents in the kitchen - my shared nights for cooking were usually Take Out or Summer Grilled Meat.
The Learning Circuits
JULY 14, 2005
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has a nice article on the diffusion of online learning into mainstream college offerings. In addition to some very interesting data in their review of the current state of online learning, the authors put forward four variables that their research indicates are key in the adoption of technology for online learning by faculty members: levels of interaction in their online courses (more is better) technical support a positive
The Learning Circuits
JULY 13, 2005
For some time now I have been advocating that anyone in the knowledge transfer business - and that's probably everyone reading this - needs to start becoming aware of the incredible work being done in the areas of educational psychology, cognitive sciences,brain research, etc. In short anything that helps us understand the 'why' and 'how' of learning at the most basic level - the brain.
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The Learning Circuits
JULY 6, 2005
I just read Stephen Downes , and found this quote talking about presentations: "let's say we're 'research-based' (and back it up with surveys of 31 people, half of them managers)". It started me thinking if we were allowed to talk about projects we worked on in real language instead of biz buzz (having just spent a portion of the day in an improv class learning to be fearless).
The Learning Circuits
JULY 7, 2005
That's Latin for "To be, rather than to seem." It's the state motto of North Carolina, and that's the only way I know that, for I left my Latin studies behind long ago. If you work for a business, be a business person. T+D (formerly called Training & Development) is the magazine of ASTD (formerly known as the American Society for Training & Development).
The Learning Circuits
JULY 4, 2005
To our colleagues from the US, the Blog Squad hopes you had an enjoyable and safe Independence Day weekend. To everyone else, don't you just love it when an event calls for fireworks? Well we're about to launch a number of firsts for Learning Circuits Blog. Some cosmetic like the new masthead for the top of the front page (the fireworks won't be there forever) and some clean up of the screens to finally a nearly complete archive of LCB's history back to April 2002.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 25, 2005
On Being Digital. Being a digital native is more about what you do, rather than your age. CasePlace. CasePlace.org is a free, online service for obtaining cases, references, and commentary published by business educators and business executives. In Praise of Open Thinking (podcast - 42 min). "As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence," says Freeman Dyson, "I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make i
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Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 23, 2005
Human Brain's 'Mastermind' Located. Humans attempt to do many things at the same time, such as driving and chatting on the phone, or working and listening to music, and now research suggests why such multitasking may be possible: the brain appears to have its own control center. Training Top 100 for 2005. Training magazine's annual ranking of organizations that excel at training and development.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 20, 2005
Open Cellphone podcast with Tom Evslin (Podcast). VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin talk with Tom Evslin about getting a big company to do new things. Knowledge Process Management. Knowledge processes cannot be managed following the standard business process management paradigm. Taiko Mania. Taiko began as a cultural expression of the Asian American civil rights movement representing the dual (American and Asian) identities of the practitioners.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 17, 2005
Personal Toolkit: Apertures of articulation. We work and learn in living networks. Together, we comprise great bodies of knowledge and expertise. Getting New Managers Up to Speed. Managers' effectiveness derives directly from their web of relationships," says Rollag. With that in mind, "map out" your new manager's network before she starts the job. Sharing knowledge - do we know enough?
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 16, 2005
Learning Space. Designing a learning space, creating a learning space, and future of the learning space. Learning Objects and Motivation Theories. Learning objects, when incorporated into an online course in an outcome-focused and learner-centered manner, can enhance learner motivation. Time Wasting or Wanting? AOL/Salary.com report about the amount of time workers "waste" at work and the "cost" to the company.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 14, 2005
Mirror Neurons (video) We humans are really good at reading faces and bodies. A recently discovered system in the brain may help explain why we humans can get so worked up watching other people. Using Case Studies to Teach Science (note: excellent article for all learning professionals) I will tell you something about stories; they aren't just entertainment.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 12, 2005
The Wikification of Knowledge. The most talked-about thing going on right now is the wiki. Essentially, wikis are a fast way to do online collaboration, and people seem to enjoy them. GTD: A New Cult for the Info Age. To converts, popular time-management manual Getting Things Done is a way of life and its author, personal productivity coach David Allen, leader of their flock.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 10, 2005
Generating Creativity through Benchmarking. Toyota practices Kaizen: Everything it does is never good enough. Everything is viewed as an experiment, and people are empowered to make the next best improvement. Harry Dent - The Next Great Bubble Boom (Podcast). Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Harry Dent, the author of The Next Great Bubble Boom. He sees another boom coming, and he says that technology and the Baby Boomers are behind it.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 9, 2005
Strategic e-learning implementation. What strategic e-learning coordination might look like. Theory & Practice of Online Learning. A free ebook that includes both html and PDF versions. Technologies of Cooperation. The eight clusters of cooperative technologies to include social tools, self organizing mesh networks, and knowledge collectives. Do we remember a pretty face?
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Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 7, 2005
Challenging The Primacy Of Lectures: The Dissonance Between Theory And Practice In University Teaching (via Stephen's Web ) Current practice in universities foregrounds the traditional lecture, tutorial, examination approach to teaching. It's Who You Know. Social Network Analysis is a set of survey methods and statistics that reveals the hidden connections between people.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 5, 2005
Immersive Learning Environments. Stephen Downes continually challenges those of us involved in online teaching/learning to think carefully about what we do and to conscientiously strive to maximize our use of this medium in a manner that will benefit teachers and learners. What's a micromanager? A micromanager is someone who manages at a level far lower, far more detailed than is necessary or appropriate.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 4, 2005
Instructional Designers: Being Everything to Everyone. You can't be everything to everyone, and yet instructional designers are forced to be just that. Clutching our knowledge assets. Human knowledge is not the aggregation of discrete, objective information, but a result of emergent processes of knowing through human subjective interpretations, or sense-making, dependent on complex historical contexts.
The Learning Circuits
JULY 19, 2005
Occasionally we gloss over the basics. Here's a good resource, Usability News , and a good read on single versus multiple column layouts that we can apply to learning and elearning materials. In summary, the major findings regarding line length, justification, and multi-column displays and online reading have been: Longer line lengths generally facilitate faster reading speeds.
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