E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the context of corporate learning & development, consider the employee who complains of being overwhelmed by the number of search results returned by the online course library, yet happily uses Google which returns billions of results. They use Google because it connects them to the information they need.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

How does your eyewear differ from Google Glass? (3:05). Google’s Ingress is an augmented reality MMOG that exemplifies the gamification capability of the medium. The fact that Ingress was developed by Google’s internal startup, Niantic Labs, is enlightening (excuse the pun). Is augmented reality worth the hype? (3:54).

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2012

Now that your book is available, you will need to inform your customers that it exists. If you’re relying on their extraordinary Google and Amazon search skills to be “discovered”, you’re dreaming. • If you write a blog, inform your subscribers. • Add a profile to Google Books.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 31, 2013

Analyse the pre-information of your chosen mooc to ensure it will give you what you need. Sometimes they’re informative, so take notice. I made the mistake of bouncing between Twitter, Google+ and Facebook in case I missed out on anything, but all that did was waste my time. Think of moocing as informal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

Constructivism, connectivism and informal learning. I gave Google Translate a beating! But honestly, when was the last time you consciously used the concepts and principles I have just mentioned to inform your work? He or she is in a prime position to provide you with a programmed sequence of knowledge. Use it or lose it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Mitchell Whitelaw advocated the “show everything&# model of information discovery, instead of the presumptuous search model. Marco Ostini described how Lunar Numbat is using open source technology to win the Google Lunar X-Prize. This was my favourite talk, and I will blog about it in more depth.).

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. Specifically, we need to connect to sources of information, and to form connections between them. Theoretical foundations.

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