Nick Leffler

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What’s The Most Important Part Of Working From Home?

Nick Leffler

I’ve been doing it since 2013 and even before that I was averse to any office environment. I’d like to think I was a pro in the work from home field (if it was a field). All the distractions, the pointless conversation in the name of “team building,” and the discomfort of every aspect of…

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Social and Learned Helplessness in Learning

Nick Leffler

How do you make them feel less overwhelmed in an information rich environment? Social Motivation. The challenging part to social learning is motivation. How do you motivate people to want to explore? Better yet, how do you motivate them not to default to calling a help-desk that costs you money?

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Don’t Control Knowledge, Let the Base Free

Nick Leffler

There’s been a few times when a knowledge base has popped up in my world lately, from where I put things in a closed internal environment to being available to the public. Hopefully dropping some knowledge on the knowledge-base will open the flood gates.

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Recipe For Disaster

Nick Leffler

Now there’s a perfect environment for task doubling up to occur, nobody knows that somebody else is also working on the same problem! If everyone is in their individual silo then there’s no distraction, just focus, right? What’s better than the same effort being put forth on many fronts all within the same department sometimes?

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The Things We Can Do With Crowdsourcing Are Limitless (But Hard)

Nick Leffler

An online environment that allows the work to take place and the community to interact with the organization, and. In the MSLOC430 blog, there’s a summary of Daren Brabham’s four ingredients to crowdsourcing: An organization that has a task that needs to be performed. Mutual benefit for the organization and the community.

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For Fear Of Failure

Nick Leffler

Trying something new by getting outside, exercising, exploring your environment is the best way to get out of that rut and do something healthy for your life. It’s depressing being inside and so dormant sitting on the couch all day everyday yet it’s one of those things that’s hard to kick.

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Communities of Inquiry

Nick Leffler

Synopsis: Simple presentation based upon referenced research outlines Community of Inquiry model and how it works in a learning environment. Retreived from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7MHPxIU27E. v=s7MHPxIU27E. Cartoon in the middle was bit jumpy for me?). Community of Inquiry: https://coi.athabascau.ca/coi-model/. coi-model/.

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