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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

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None of this is new information or insight. The organizational walls are porous such that the outside can flow in without too much of a challenge while sensitive information is protected. This is what will differentiate a MOOC from any old course running on an LMS. a comprehensive change management strategy, 2.

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SkillSoft's inGenius: About adding meaningful context.

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One more point that could make organizations happy: it seems that future releases of inGenius will extend support to SkillSoft's SkillPort LMS and other e-learning modules. Source: SkillSoft Raises the Bar for e-Learning with its inGenius Social Learning Layer ) However, there seems to be a dichotomy here.

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Integrating Social Learning in the Workplace

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This post focuses on the challenges organizations face when attempting to integrate social learning and synthesizes some of the key concerns. Social learning is much more a cultural outcome than a process or a program to be followed. However, social learning neither has a completion criteria nor can it be enforced.

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

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MOOCs, unlike typical on-line courses hosted on corporate LMS''s operate on very different principles. Because of its blended nature - formal course content with informal and social learning woven around it - MOOCs cannot be a top down endeavour. I will just call out a few to set the context.

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Harvard ManageMentor: Some thoughts in response.

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In working with our customers, we discovered that they were trying to address a number of learning requirements, most notably formal learning, informal learning and performance support. In this era of information explosion, context-less information is just data that does not foster or drive decision-making abilities.

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Instructional Design in the VUCA World

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One of the implications of the shift is that instructional designers can no longer think about designing only formal training programs that will go on the LMS. J ane Hart''s Workplace Learning Continuum illustrates the learning spectrum very effectively. They have to think of the entire spectrum and see it holistically.

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11 Differences between a MOOC and an Online Course

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I love this definition of MOOCs by Ignatia Inge deWaard in her e-book, MOOC Yourself: “A MOOC is a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning /teaching/training on a specific topic in an informal, online, and collaborative way.”