Kapp Notes

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Is eLearning Dead? Is Instructional Design Dying with It?

Kapp Notes

Think of the huge self-paced learning purchase of Lynda.com by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion and the subsequent purchase of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 Just three years ago, LinkedIn posted fewer than 5,000 instructional designer job openings. billion (but obviously for more than just the self-paced eLearning of Lynda.com).

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A Conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin Kruse

Kapp Notes

One year early, you should write a book, launch a company and get a massive number of connections on LinkedIn (sorry Snapchat doesn’t help). And let’s not forget LinkedIn. Even if people say they want a resume, you are your LinkedIn profile. Everybody—all recruiters—will sniff you out on LinkedIn. I’m not joking.

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Random Web 2.0 Statistics

Kapp Notes

same source as above) Relative to the entire population of internet users, those who have been to graduate school are over represented on LinkedIn. Alexa, the Web Information Company) At LinkedIn, the average age is 41 with an average household income of $109,703 with over 50% having an income of $100k plus.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Collaborative sharing and commenting on information. Good for getting information from a multitude of experts on a topic in a conversational format. Sharing information, interests and areas of focus. Connecting disparate pieces of information together across silos of organizations. A group can all edit the same document.

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Conversation with Kevin Kruse–Best Selling Author

Kapp Notes

Think of it as informal reverse mentorship. I have over 50,000 email subscribes, another 50,000 LinkedIn connections, but what is most valuable are the thousand or so SuperFans. Ask as many people as possible, “So, how’d you get started in __.” 2) You’ve written a new book titled “ Text Me!

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Presentation to Research Working Group on Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer

Kapp Notes

These postings and links support the presentation and provide additional information on the topic of "Tools for Transferring Know How." Here are some links to blog postings I've done related to the topic and other related links.

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Creating a Vibrant Learning Community

Kapp Notes

But Facebook , LinkedIn , Ning and IntroNetworks are all great tools for having academically focused learning communities in an online setting. Reach across silos of information. See Pedia Palooza for information covered in this portion of the presentation. But first we have to get over misconceptions about Social Media.

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