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The top two reasons why brainstorming sessions fail

OpenSesame

All of a sudden, the team produces a torrent of creative ideas. Create a judgment free zone. That’s what many people think they can do with their team when it comes to being creative. Just read the brainstorming directions – voila! That’s just ridiculous! Defer judgment. Strive for quantity. Seek wild and unusual ideas.

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The Sixth Rule of LAN Party is Wear Deodorant

OpenSesame

At least 100 GB free on your hard drive. All torrent clients must be turned off at all times. Never leave your computer unlocked. An unlocked computer means that you’ll return to your machine to find all of your profiles updated to read “I heart kittens!”. No VPN or Hamachi.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. Posted by: boete hypotheek | March 16, 2009 at 01:50 AM I predict an outcome similar to Napster for sites like Textbook Torrent.

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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

On the conference's social network site the conference backchannel tool Twitter is announced as "what it means to embrace a truly free and open stream of communication in the digital age." And eye wateringly free and open it became during David Galper's keynote. That's what our students would expect from us, isn't it?

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Turn Training into a Profit Center – Here’s How

eLearning 24-7

I mean no one is going to stay clear if your failure rate is 35%, but unless you are like the CFA, where a passing rate is around 2%, and thus a failure rate of 98%, your program isn’t going to get people to invest, especially when YouTube or Coursera is around with free online content, that folks think will suffice. .

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Let's go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. So I was reading this post on Slashdot about a Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the growing piracy of textbooks.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning - Untitled Article

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Textbook torrents a-crashin’ - Abject Learning , September 11, 2009. Free-agentry , September 3, 2009. New Bloggers: Boost Your Chances of Success - You Learn Something New Every Day , September 25, 2009. Fatheads and centerfolds - The Thinking Meat Project , September 17, 2009. Do Social Networks Shape Our Lives ? Hot Topics.