E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2021

That makes heutagogy a subset of andragogy, but whereas the latter will have us lead the learners by pitching problems to them, hosting Socratic discussions with them and perhaps curating content for them, the former is more about providing them with the tools and capabilities that enable them to lead their own learning journeys.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 22, 2014

So the formal training needs to be sustained, and a powerful way of doing that is with an informal learning environment. A key component of the informal learning environment is the content repository – such as an intranet or a wiki – that contains content that the employee can search or explore at their discretion.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 16, 2013

I consider this an important point because as learning in the corporate sector becomes more informal, the employee’s motivation to drive their own development will become increasingly pivotal to their performance, and hence to the performance of the organisation as a whole. Open badges can formally recognise informal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

I also think the business model will become sustainable, as soon as the providers adopt a freemium model. The proponents of informal learning don’t care. The only people who seem to care are the MOOC providers themselves (naturally), the proponents of formal learning, and the ever-present killjoys.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2012

Let me explain by rewinding a little… In my previous post Informal first , I articulated a mindset that prioritises informal learning over formal training. I argued in favour of providing all the necessary learning resources to the target audience in an open, structured format.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

To me it’s a total waste of time reposting the information that already exists somewhere on the intranet in a pdf. It seems that if we just point people in the right direction for the information we can’t be sure they’ve read it. It’s no longer about what we know but more about where to find the information and apply it to tasks.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

and The ILE and the FLE in harmony , I advocate the development of a virtual Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with the Formal Learning Environment (FLE) to support both the learning process and its administration. Informal learning. I believe in the power of informal learning. Informal Learning Environment.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

As a trainer, you will smash the “10” with an informative and engaging workshop filled with handouts, scenarios, role plays, activities etc. Then your trainees return to their desks, put the handouts in a drawer, and try to remember all the important information for as long as humanly possible.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Inform your participants very early that the virtual class will be happening, when and where. Book the time out in their calendar, and let them know that they will be receiving an email to provide them with the access details. Provide them with any documents they will need beforehand. Stage 3: Information exchange.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

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

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Inform everyone of the official hashtag. Provide free Wi-Fi. And if you do offer free Wi-Fi, for crying out loud inform everyone of the access details. Inform the audience of the presenter’s handle. So I see heating up the backchannel as a critical aspect of the conference organiser’s role.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2012

Let me explain by rewinding a little… In my previous post Informal first , I articulated a mindset that prioritises informal learning over formal training. I argued in favour of providing all the necessary learning resources to the target audience in an open, structured format.

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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. So please find below Part 4 of my series which provides tips on how to ramp up your sales… There are literally hundreds of ways to promote a product. • If you write a blog, inform your subscribers. • Create a Facebook page.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I see the future of universities as service providers, plain and simple. I prefer to see MOOCs through the lens of informal learning which values the learning over its bureaucracy. As for big data, there is clearly a lot of potential in using it to inform our practice – if we can access it. Informal first.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 12, 2010

I hope that this taxonomy, along with the corresponding notes below, will assist you in using learning theory to inform your instructional design decisions. From this, he deduced that the amount of information that could be processed at any one time could be increased by “chunking&# it. Overarching themes. Schema theories .

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

One of the biggest changes should be a shift from the traditional focus on static stocks of knowledge (a course mindset) to consideration for information flows. We haven’t really had a choice have we? Courses are time-consuming, expensive and most of them start to become out-dated as soon as they are created.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

But you have to be very careful to provide value. These companies invite their customers (or prospective customers) to ask questions, submit complaints, provide compliments (Heaven forbid!), So maybe Twitter provides your business with an opportunity to engage with a different demographic of customer. Personal applications.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2015

Sure, they may be thoughtfully filtered and informatively annotated, but a hotchpotch is a hotchpotch. It’s worth remembering that education is not the provision of information; it is sense making. Leverage this opportunity by providing a mechanism by which anyone can contribute better content.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Specifically, we need to connect to sources of information, and to form connections between them. In other words, we need to recognise meaningful patterns among distributed sets of information. That’s why connectivism focuses on the sources of information, rather than on the information itself. Applications.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

I also think the business model will become sustainable, as soon as the providers adopt a freemium model. The proponents of informal learning don’t care. The only people who seem to care are the MOOC providers themselves (naturally), the proponents of formal learning, and the ever-present killjoys.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

Gone are the days of an authoritarian teacher transmitting pre-defined information to passive students. My view is informed by observation. The SME transmits this necessary information quickly and efficiently. Instructivism is dead. The real world. News feeds, podcasts, blogs, wikis and discussion forums.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

While Google Glass has augmented reality capability, it is essentially a wearable computer with which digital information is conveniently presented in front of the wearer’s eye. In contrast, the Explore Engage eyewear is specifically designed to integrate digital information with the real-world background. In terms of ROI, 2.5

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 10, 2010

For example, if you want to attend an advanced negotiation skills workshop, you can look up the sessions delivered by our preferred training providers. I’m also keen to add information about our mentoring and coaching programs. It transforms a formal learning environment into a more informal one.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

” No matter how much we try to cultivate an informal learning culture within our organisations, this question pops up time and again. The initiative allows training providers to issue digital “badges” to the participants in their courses, who thereby earn online representations of their newly acquired skills.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Other aspects of the subject (for instance, the rapid advances in technology, and the pedagogical shifts towards social and informal learning) could not be compared against any such canon. Soozie makes the point that information sources go beyond what the web and other technologies can channel. It was even documented in textbooks.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 10, 2014

Regardless of the specific technology or pedagogy discussed by the panellists, the overarching advice provided by each one was to give it a go and see what happens. A failure isn’t an error or a mistake, but a beautiful piece of intelligence that informs your next move. Either way, the result informs her next move.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Effective performance management complements development planning to provide the employee with guidance on improving said performance. To inform these decisions with data, I’d be keen to correlate capability assessments against individual performances and observe the relationship between the variables over time.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2014

Carr-Chellman & Savoy (2004) provide a broad overview of user design. Furthermore, their role is more than just providing input; they are active participants in the decision-making process. The goal of these activities is to obtain extra information to assist the designer in creating a better system for the users.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 26, 2017

The employee lifecycle would provide the structure for a platform containing information and resources that our managers could draw upon on demand. The driving force was an idea to support managers through the various people-related matters to which they needed to attend.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Readers of this blog will be familiar with my obsession passion for informal learning environments , but in this instance I’m not referring to the constructivist approach. My point is, under the right circumstances, video can provide effective instruction. An online discussion forum? A buddy program?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 16, 2012

Thankfully he provided an alternative: scan the receipt and the card, then attach them to a reply email. I informed this guy that I had already responded to that, so could he refer to the other guy. Besides if you don’t mind writing off $20, let me know and I’ll provide you with my postal address.). Yes, he said fax.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 6, 2009

Big Dog & Little Dog provide an excellent Instructional System Design Manual that covers analysis quite comprehensively. For example, a Team Leader might call you to say that her team is struggling to meet its productivity targets; or a Project Manager might inform you of the imminent rollout of a new processing system.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2009

Connecting Many Voices to Make a Difference: Anne Walsh and Brendan Revell from Fraynework Multimedia provided an overview of the e-learning support they are providing to The Sisters of Mercy. Stephen has kindly made the slides and audio from his session available on Stephen’s Web.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In contrast, a product tour shows me your product in action, and provides me with enough information to make a judgement call as to its usefulness and usability. An upbeat animation about your product is a glorified advertisement. I don’t trust advertisements. I fear doing so will condemn me to the hard sell.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 16, 2012

Thankfully he provided an alternative: scan the receipt and the card, then attach them to a reply email. I informed this guy that I had already responded to that, so could he refer to the other guy. Besides if you don’t mind writing off $20, let me know and I’ll provide you with my postal address.). Yes, he said fax.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 23, 2008

I attended an informative presentation today called Mobile Mania and the Business Impact presented by Robin Simpson , Research Director at Gartner , and Matt Brennan, Enterprise BDM for Emerging Technologies at Apple.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Jan provided an overview of a series of workshops undertaken at UOW in which both teachers and students learned how to develop vodcasts for dissemination via PDAs and iPods. At the end of the day, I found the symposium informative, and I enjoyed catching up with my uni buddies and meeting new people in the e‑learning community.

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