E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2012

If you’re relying on their extraordinary Google and Amazon search skills to be “discovered”, you’re dreaming. • Add a profile to Google Books. In Tips & tricks for self publishers – Part 3 I explained how to self publish a paperback. You need to do much more than that to get noticed!

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Strangely, Smashwords doesn’t ship to the Google eBookstore. Nevermind, you can upload an ePub file to Google’s catalogue via their partner program.*. Well, that’s the theory.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 18, 2016

A golden age in which learning & performance would be transformed. More recently, Google Glass has been making in-roads, though I consider it more of a data display device than an AR headset. Hyundai’s app prompted me to consider the relationship between e-learning and marketing in the corporate domain.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 27, 2011

To answer that question I hit Google and a couple of academic databases, but mostly in vain. You see, Google wasn’t much help because “best practice&# is frequently confused with “common practice&# – but it’s not the same thing. If they’re the bad and ugly aspects of MCQ design, what’s the good?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 31, 2013

By that I don’t mean so much the knowledge acquired from the instructors, but (on the contrary) the skills developed in learning how to learn for myself. That’s fine; it’s called learning. More specifically, use your blog to articulate your learnings from the mooc. Think of moocing as informal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 25, 2011

From a learning practitioner’s point of view, it raises issues of pedagogy, instructional design, and perhaps even epistemology. Googling ability does not a scholar make. I have really enjoyed following the recent argy bargy between Larry Sanger and Steve Wheeler. As a novice, you don’t know what you don’t know.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2013

Eventually I settled on The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures mooc, because it targeted practising e-learning professionals who “want to deepen their understanding of what it means to teach and learn in the digital age”, not to mention the fact I was fascinated by its coverage of popular culture.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 25, 2011

From a learning practitioner’s point of view, it raises issues of pedagogy, instructional design, and perhaps even epistemology. Googling ability does not a scholar make. I have really enjoyed following the recent argy bargy between Larry Sanger and Steve Wheeler. As a novice, you don’t know what you don’t know.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Marco Ostini described how Lunar Numbat is using open source technology to win the Google Lunar X-Prize. Melinda Gates crystallised 3 lessons that non-profit organisations can learn from Coca Cola. Temple Grandin explained why the world needs all kinds of minds to work together , especially autistic ones.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 21, 2016

Whether you have been playing with Google Cardboard or developing high-end immersive experiences, we wanted to hear about it. What are our peers currently doing with this emerging technology? The online networking festival was open to anyone working with or experimenting with virtual reality.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 18, 2016

I’m always surprised when someone makes a sweeping declaration such as “No one’s using virtual reality in the workplace” I heard this very statement recently at an e-learning conference. Yep, an e-learning conference. All it takes is a bit of imagination. Virtual reality can substitute the real environment.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 30, 2009

BJ offered Google as an example, which started as a search engine developed by a couple of college students. Implications for e-learning. In terms of e-learning, the principle of “Everything big started small&# can apply to introducing a new technology (eg blogs, wikis) or pedagogy (eg m?learning,

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 1, 2011

So I googled “ANZ Twitter&# and stumbled upon Did ANZ open a new branch and forget to staff it? I could draw a parallel to e-learning and bang on about maintaining consistency over multiple modes of delivery, but I figure that’s a no brainer so I won’t waste your time. Monkey see, monkey do. – not a good omen!

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Learning from my mistakes, I re-worded the 3-step instructions to make them clearer, and this time I asked a colleague to test it in front of me. Another lesson learned. The first step appeared simple enough: millions of people go to the App Store or Google Play to install millions of apps. But again we ran into trouble.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 29, 2011

Since the app is built on the Layar platform, it connects to Google Maps. Of course you have to start somewhere and the PhM website does promise a new version, but it refers to contemporary photography and gamification. I’d rather they expand their range into The Rocks and Circular Quay. The app barely augments reality.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. 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.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 16, 2012

So I turned to my trusty adviser, Google, and found that I was not the only one with this problem. Without much forethought, I peeled back the sticker covering the code, only to notice I had damaged two of the characters beyond recognition. Naturally I tried to redeem the value in the iTunes Store with a few guesses, but to no avail.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2009

For example, Company X might dip its toes into the cloud by discontinuing local installations of their standard desktop software onto individual PCs, in favour of connecting to Google Docs. What does this mean for e-learning? But online course creation is only one aspect of e-learning. Private clouds. Podcast hosts. Wiki spaces.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 16, 2012

So I turned to my trusty adviser, Google, and found that I was not the only one with this problem. Without much forethought, I peeled back the sticker covering the code, only to notice I had damaged two of the characters beyond recognition. Naturally I tried to redeem the value in the iTunes Store with a few guesses, but to no avail.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 24, 2009

The Learning Circuits Big Question for this month is: If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? The responsibility for e-learning development will decentralise across the organisation.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ingress is a mobile game developed by Niantic (an offshoot of Google). I hadn’t planned to play Pokémon Go myself, but given its sheer popularity I felt it would be remiss of me as an e-learning professional to forgo an informed opinion. Then along came Ingress. Then one day it exploded. Suddenly everyone was playing it!

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 1, 2009

A little while ago, I attended an executive briefing about cloud computing , hosted by SMS Management & Technology and presented by Paul Slakey , Director of Americas & Asia Pacific at Google , and Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com. What is cloud computing? These are all in the cloud.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 19, 2010

in NSW event last year, ten or so minutes of googling on my part couldn’t find any other Government 2.0 E-Learning for seniors. As both a rate payer and an e-learning & social media professional, I have my own ideas about how the council can act locally to lead the nation (and dare I say the world?) Smart city.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 18, 2011

Much has been said of the “circles&# feature in Google+ , and rightly so. It’s Google’s trump card against the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Some commentators have heralded the death of the popular microblog at the hands of Google+ because, unlike its alleged nemesis, its messages are restricted to 140 characters.

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