Nick Leffler

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Turn The Curiosity Back On

Nick Leffler

Somewhere between 4th and 8th grade formal education turned the switch of curiosity off to create the expectation that information is delivered to you. Just like the time to develop your professional network is not when you’re looking for work. It got me thinking about how people get complacent in their job.

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Employees Avoiding Corporate Barriers

Nick Leffler

If there’s not good place on an organizations network to drop that video to have the subject matter expert review, it’s going to be stored in Dropbox. If that doesn’t happen then work will move off the organization’s network and to 3rd party services. It may even move to employee owned devices.

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Communities of Inquiry

Nick Leffler

I want to preface this post with the following information: Before a few days ago I had never heard the term Community of Inquiry, which is exactly why I’ve chosen to write and learn about it. Sorry about the detour of information there. Other models we could choose from were: Networked learning (familiar). Anderson, A.

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Closing Out 2014 With Learning Reflection

Nick Leffler

It’s a win-win if you go about it the right way and then there’s no loss of information. The initial move to a broader mobile audience had a lot of research saying that mobile apps and sites should only cover the most likely information to be used while mobile. I can’t think of a better way to spend a conference experience.

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What Sharing Ideas At Work Does For Us

Nick Leffler

They spew information as others record it. It’s impossible to continue to spew information and ever learn anything from anybody. Sharing ideas at work seems like it’s the practice of just spewing information and never consuming, but it’s not. New and better things come out of sharing ideas with others.

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Increasing Social Awareness in Higher Education

Nick Leffler

Some social media accounts were already created so it was a matter of rounding those two up and then creating them for two other networks. There is regular sharing of quality articles in various classes so that information can easily be added to the spreadsheet. Original Content For Others.

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Social Learning Has Never Been About a Single Tool

Nick Leffler

I don’t know about you, but I’m hungry for information, hungry to learn, and hungry to learn from the best of the best. Employees are hungry for information and they are hungry for a place to socially learn, collaborate, and share which all go hand in hand. How do you get people talking on an enterprise social network?