Nick Leffler

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Generation Mobile

Nick Leffler

Given a choice, I would rather learn about diversity and inclusion through discussion and exploration over a formal course presented by L&D. The focus for those interested in catering to generation mobile should be in curation of resources and discussion around ways to improve performance.

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Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

Nick Leffler

Yesterday I started the first of my four-part series covering my thoughts and impressions on the four topics presented in week 3 of the MSLOC430 cMOOC. Our project never did make it through the last round, but we were approached by the CIO to present to him personally because he wasn’t a judge this year.

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Learned Helplessness of Learning #chat2lrn

Nick Leffler

From the problems it presents to the different ways to solve it, there’s no one answer to it all. Even after the chat I was receiving great information to think about in comments and elsewhere such as this one from Tanya Lau : Learned Helplessness of Learning is such a broad topic which gives me a lot to think and write about. Guest Post.

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Rethinking The Holiday Rush

Nick Leffler

I knew this would present some problems including not the highest quality recording (although it was not too bad). I also got a do some playing around with new tech. Not the coolest tech (for me anyway) but nonetheless tech. My plan was to use the microphone on my iPhone ear-buds.

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Communities of Inquiry

Nick Leffler

Synopsis: Simple presentation based upon referenced research outlines Community of Inquiry model and how it works in a learning environment. Synopsis: Downloadable chapter presents the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework of online learning as the interaction between and amongst three presences: social, cognitive and teaching.

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Communities of Practice Need Some Practice

Nick Leffler

Those two must be present in a CoP to be a CoP. After reading that more carefully, I might say that what I defined above as a failure CoP might not even be a CoP at all. The keywords to take out of that description are interact and regularly. My failed example above does not do this, there’s none or little interacting.

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Looking Back On 2015

Nick Leffler

I defined a CoP I had been as a failure, and I think it’s true because the two things that must be present for a CoP to be successful is interaction and regularly. So, a group with a common interest that interacts regularly is a CoP even if they only meet formally on occasion.

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