And while it’s never a good idea to do something just because others are doing so (I hear my mom yelling at me “if your friends jumped off a cliff would you do that too?”), the Wall Street Journal recently posted an interesting article detailing how the “big boys” are utilizing games these days.  Employees receive points or badges for completing jobs or meeting time limits for assignments, for example. Click for Slideshow: Examples of games in workplace management. Gaming Theory Gamification Learning Circuits Blog Wall Street Journalbased Bunchball Inc. MORE >>

received a lot of questions about the learning journal. So in today’s post we’ll look at the basic structure of the learning journal and how you could use something like it to complement your elearning courses. The Value of a Learning Journal. Before we look at how to set up the learning journal, let’s review where it adds value: Connects elearning to real world activities. The learning journal is used as a bridge between the learning that happens in the elearning course and what happens in the real work environment. Using a Learning Journal. Notes. MORE >>

' . Awhile back, I wrote about the value of having a career journal  and discussed some of the ways that I used my own journal. I''m a huge proponent of reflective practice and a journal is a critical tool for that work. lot of people think of journaling as a "nice to do," but as Harvard researcher Teresa Amabile has found, a career journal, especially for anyone who does creative work, is really more of a "must have." If you don''t make the progress you wanted to, your journal can be a place for thinking through and planning next steps. Resilience MORE >>

When I first started playing around with writing about career journals , I asked on Twitter if anyone was using them. heard back from  Harold Jarche , who wondered if a blog "counts" as a journal. But I tend to think that we may miss something if our blogs are our only form of career journaling. Some things that are in my career journal feel too personal to share--the work I do when I'm feeling really stuck comes to mind here. also have to say that in terms of process, my career journals answer a different need. What do you think? MORE >>

Example screenshots:  . Christian emerging technologies experimentation future future of higher education innovation interactivity journalism learning ecosystem learning from the living room learning spaces MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses multi-touch multimedia publishing smart classrooms tools web-based collaboration workplace A/V MOOCs 'From DSC: re: Adobe’s Project Context: This is the type of hardware/software combination that I’ve been hoping for and envisioning! Excellent! Re: Adobe’s Project Context. Great work Adobe! This is innovative! Very helpful! MORE >>