Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 13, 2008
Working from home « Design for Learning. Natalie Kilkenny writes about how much more productive she is as a telecommuter than working in a cube farm and answers the question “How do they know that you’re working when they can’t see you?&#. tags: telecommuting , career , productivity. x28’s new Blog » Blog Archive » My take on Connectivism.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 14, 2008
Here is a great video from Northern Illinois University showing how mechanical engineering can be made fun by incorporating game elements, problem-based learning and real race cars into the course. I especially like the beginning contrasting a textbook with the video game.food for thought.
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Learning with e's
AUGUST 14, 2008
I have just been alerted to a new podcast available here that covers my presentation on self-organised learning and Web 2.0 that I gave in June at the St Virgil Centre for the Edumedia Conference in Salzburg, Austria. Edited by Andreas Auwarter (part of the Pontydysgu team), it offers links to my blog and also the powerpoint presentation I gave. I talk about mentoring, personalised learning, nomadic learning, and how blogs and wikis can be used in teacher education, and I explore the idea behind
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Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 12, 2008
The Bamboo Project Blog: Privacy, Social Media and Learning. Businesses and organizations may worry about social media and Web 2.0 tools in terms of privacy and confidentiality, but their fears are largely unfounded. If people are going to share your secrets, they have plenty of other ways to do so besides social media–and those other ways are likely more effective. tags: web2.0 , orgculture , privacy.
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eLearning Blender
AUGUST 13, 2008
To Moodle or not to Moodle, that is the question. I have come to a crossroads with a project that I have written about before. I am currently in the process of developing a series of eLearning courses that are part of a blended management training program. At this point, I have 3 of the 6 courses complete. Here is where it get's interesting, an associate installed Moodle to start playing around.
Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 9, 2008
The NCTE Definition of 21st-Century Literacies. NCTE’s literacies for the 21st century, including technology, problem-solving, information literacy, multimedia, and ethics. tags: 21stcenturyskills , informationliteracy , ethics , problemsolving , education , multimedia.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 12, 2008
Here is a machinimia done as a class assignment. It is on the topic of guided tours (a very popular topic in the Learning in 3D class for the machinimia project.) Also, if you are interested in lesson plans for Second Life check out the class site wiki.
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Clive on Learning
AUGUST 14, 2008
I would have preferred 'recession report', but technically we need two consecutive quarters of negative growth to achieve that status and we'll have to wait a little longer for that. Anyway, the purpose of this posting is to share a little news about how the economic downturn is affecting the corporate e-learning industry in the UK, hopefully not to scare you, but to encourage a healthy exchange of intelligence.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
AUGUST 13, 2008
This week we introduced an important new set of research and recognition, the HILO 80® – the top 80 organizations we benchmarked in high-impact corporate learning through our High Impact Learning Organization® research program. Methodology: On an annual basis, we investigate the highest impact best-practices in corporate learning, looking at more than 50 different elements.
Learning with e's
AUGUST 13, 2008
The preparations for ALT-C are nearly complete and we will all gather once again for our annual edu-knees-up in Leeds in a few weeks time. But running parallel with ALT-C this year is the Fringe ALT (or F-ALT). F-ALT will be serious fun, that is, fun with a serious undercurrent. We have been allocated space just off the main venue at the University of Leeds to conduct a number of events including WTF sessions on Microblogging , Second Life , Learning Objects, shoes, beer and all the other pressi
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 11, 2008
Why are simulations and virtual worlds so effective for learning? Here are some possible answers. These environments allow: Practice of real world skills with rich feedback in a safe environment that does not impact real processes or customers. Mastery of a technique, behavior or method through guided rehearsals again and again as many times as is needed.
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E-Learning Acupuncture
AUGUST 12, 2008
I spent about 15 minutes this morning with Tim Allen, Head of Technology for Crompco Corporation. I wasn’t in his office, I wasn’t on the phone with him, our time together wasn't even a series of email exchanges – it was in a 3-dimensional virtual world: Second Life! With about 150 staff members and 65 trucks in its fleet, Crompco services gas stations from Maine to Florida on the I-95 corridor.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
AUGUST 13, 2008
This week we introduced an important new set of research and recognition, the HILO 80® – the top 80 organizations we benchmarked in high-impact corporate learning through our High Impact Learning Organization® research program. Methodology: On an annual basis, we investigate the highest impact best-practices in corporate learning, looking at more than 50 different elements.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 15, 2008
Like most old farts, I was reluctant to get into Twitter. Receiving Tweets struck me as a great way to invite more trivia and continuous interrupts into my crowded life. I don’t care what Tim O’Reilly had for breakfast or Dave Snowden thinks of his hotel room. I didn’t want to know. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, invest two and a half minutes of your time here: If that’s not enough, here’s Twitter founder Jack Dorsey explaining how people and orga
Janet Clarey
AUGUST 13, 2008
Are you getting tired of self-service? I actually will not be surprised when I’m given a job aid and scalpel when I show up at the doctors office. Imagine all these people in little rooms with their scalpels being overseen by one person like the self-service checkouts at the Home Depot. In corporate training we’re talking a lot about wikis, blogs, RSS, podcasts, vodcasts, bookmarking, etc.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
Rapid eLearning
AUGUST 11, 2008
eLearning Weekly
AUGUST 15, 2008
I certainly hope not! I like to think that readers of eLearning Weekly are far superior to the average webinar practitioner. You’re the brightest of the eLearning field. We hold webinars where people are engaged while learning. Right? Right. Well, just in case you need a refresher, I’ve got a good resource for you: In a recent article in CLO Magazine , Allison Rossett , Antonia Chan and Colleen Cunningham take an honest look at webinars and reveal what works and what doesn’t.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 14, 2008
This is a great time to be alive, especially if you don’t have deadlines. I spent the last 90 minutes getting sucked into one interesting thing after another. I had to grab something from Facebook, which is not on my list of frequent destinations, and came upon a new blog from the team at Brandon Hall which turned me on to a nifty little image generator … …which I posted to my Research Page , where I store tools and links I expect to return to.
Janet Clarey
AUGUST 12, 2008
My colleague, Gary Woodill , had the opportunity to write for Stephen Downes ‘ OLDaily in the month of July. For those of you not familiar, OLDaily - short for Online Learning Daily - is a daily newsletter, with commentary, about significant news in the online learning field. Stephen Downes produces the newsletter as a part of his work at National Research Council Canada (read more about the newsletter here ).
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 13, 2008
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch has become one of my favorite shows. Why? Its all about helping people follow their dreams by asking the ones that have done it. So what does this have to do with e-Learning? Well, I know many of you are responsible for management & leadership training. Thursday is leadership day. What is your Leadership IQ? You should watch to get better ideas about how to improve your training solutions.
Big Dog, Little Dog
AUGUST 11, 2008
The Thinking Behind Critical Thinking Courses - Washington Post. Critical thinking is not a skill like riding a bike or diagramming a sentence that, once learned, can be applied in many situations. Instead, as your most-hated high school teacher often told you, you have to buckle down and learn the content of a subject--facts, concepts and trends--before the maxims of critical thinking taught in these feverishly-marketed courses will do you much good.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 14, 2008
Find more photos like this on Learnscape Architecture. When I peruse the titles on a bookshelf, I sense an awakening of topics that were on the edge of the abyss of forgetfulness. I’ve been toying with the idea that momentary reinforcement may refresh a neural pathway sufficiently to keep it alive. Hence, a slide-show widget may be an aide-memoire.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 12, 2008
Cued no doubt by the mysterious invisible hand of cyberspace, I received an email this evening from Brittanica pointing to an online debate among Nick Carr, Kevin Kelly, Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, and other worthies that ties back to both the post with Camus and my earlier rant about Carr’s stoopid arguments. Catch this action: Research + Web = More Consensus, Less Diversity (At Least, So Far) | Britannica Blog.
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Jay Cross
AUGUST 11, 2008
Join me and some pals this Wednesday for a dialog on Unmeetings. What is an unmeeting? A BarCamp? A World Cafe? Open Space? Why bother? What’s in it for a business organization? How do unmeetings improve learning? What has worked best for you? Any horror stories? Wednesday, August 13, 2008. 10:30 PDT, 1:30 EDT. Conference Dial-in Number:Â (712) 432-1601.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 10, 2008
My friend Philip linked me to a delicious opinion piece by David Brooks in the New York Times that begins with the lament: All my life I’ve been a successful pseudo-intellectual, sprinkling quotations from Kafka, Epictetus and Derrida into my conversations, impressing dates and making my friends feel mentally inferior. But over the last few years, it’s stopped working.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 9, 2008
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