Background and Rationale RRUs delivery model aims to provide working professionals with an applied education. CTET started to raise quality issues at a campus-wide forum to encourage faculty and learners to provide input. Therefore, after two years of hectic course conversion and a new quality focus, CTET is redefining its mandate and services to include new approaches to providing instructional design and web design expertise, offering technical and pedagogical training, and facilitating the scholarship of teaching and learning. license ( [link] ). EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol.

It also provides an opportunity to role model the qualities of collaboration you want to instill in others. Site Map My ASTD Membership Store Home > Learning Circuits > 2008 > The Virtual Gathering Experience The Virtual Gathering Experience By Debbe Kennedy A learning solution for putting our differences to work. Social media continues to transform the way we communicate with one another, and I admit that I’m hooked. Are you? What is exciting about this Web 2.0 It seems important to clarify what is meant by “putting our differences to work.&# Futurist Joel A. Send feedback!

2-hour webinar with the vendor that hosts our LMS, providing an overview of how everything fits together and allowing people a chance to ask questions about procedures and policies. Our team has spent over a year preparing for the conversion from Blackboard to Sakai (something I haven’t talked about here too much because we hadn’t told Blackboard we were leaving until recently). We’ve seen a significant amount of resistance to the conversion from several of our long-time facilitators, and it’s been a struggle to figure out how to ease them through this transition.

That technology, coupled with the (soon) future development of WiMax capabilities makes me wonder about the future of satellite radio providers such as XM and Sirius. And with an FM transmitter like the one I'm currently using to listen to audio from my iPod/iPhone I ask ya, when I can get a customized experience from another provider fairly reliably on a mobile platform over the internet, why would I need a satellite radio subscription plan I hope your holiday celebrations have gone well and that your holiday continues to go famously. For my part, my wife and I did pretty well.

Most important of all, the Web software provides a social layer that connects people with one another and with information. I’m closing the chapter on 2008 and gearing up for 2009 and beyond. Looking back, I see lots of smoke but little fire. Next year, I intend to start making the world a better place, and that’s going to take more oomph, focus, and work with others. Note: this post documents my journey through the past 12 months. Be forewarned: it’s me, me, me. Winter. Submitted my DNA to 23 and Me for decoding. Staying Alive appears in Link&Learn eNewsletter.

of practice provide. Business Intelligence, CLO magazine, December 2008. For all the talk about networks and knowledge sharing, it appears many organizations aren’t practicing it. How is your enterprise approaching these concepts? In the middle of 2008, a notice appeared on the Informal Learning blog (informl.com) requesting participation in a survey of informal and Web 2.0 learning practices. total of 235 responded. Twenty-five percent had less than 100 employees, and 27 percent had 5,000 or more. However, a somewhat clear picture emerges from the findings. No time for reflection.

Web-based analytics are easily baked into online communities such as this, and Google now provides a service that enables a Web site to compare itself to its peers. Customer Learning , CLO magazine, December 2008. Learning is woven into the fabric of every modern business. It’s the way we adapt to change. We’ve got to rid ourselves of the notion that learning is just the chief learning officer’s business. Learning is so much more than that. Learning is the lifeblood of commerce, and it’s every corporate citizen’s job to make it better. It’s time to invite customers to join the party.

While I dislike Gilbert’s faux-algebraic formulations, his framework does provide a way to look at both learning (the repertoire line) and performance support (the environment line). Provide “performance support&# for sharing know-how, making conversation flow, encouraging experimentation… Forget about the rats. My research into meaning of competence led me to a dusty bookshelf downstairs to take a fresh look at a b00k I first read thirty years ago. In 1978, Tom Gilbert wrote Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance. Ah, manipulation! W =     B. Response.

Does selecting a nice round number like ‘10′ provide a glimpse into our assumptions that the future will exhibit some type of order? I’m not sure why future forecasts always require 10 items. Why not 6? or 11? The World Future Society has listed its top 10 trends for 2009 and beyond. Some are fairly obvious (growth of electricity access, urbanization). Others are intriguing in terms of implications to education: “Professional knowledge will become obsolete almost as quickly as it’s acquired.

You choose which provider you trust the most and keep all your account info there. EDITing in the Dark A blog about using technology in education, photography, my journey and anything else that I care to write about. rss Home Contact Me Photos 2009 Predictions Raj | December 18, 2008 | 4:51 pm Whoa… 2008 saw me put up almost a thousand posts, not to shabby. But I think that would have been higher if I wasn’t able to tweet at least a few of the things that would have otherwise been given a one liner post. But at least our data speeds are not that bad right now. and not 3.0.

Instead provide a safe environment where a proctor or instructor is available to guide the learner the first time. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, here is a little visual post card from Second Life wishing you and Your's a Great Holiday Season and a Happy New Year.plus some virtual world best practices thrown in as a gift>): Three virtual world learning best practices to consider when implementing 3D worlds in 2009. Introduce Virtual Learing Worlds in a face to face environment. After that, the implementation and use of the virtual world will be much easier.

provides more relevant results).  The topic of search engines came up during a recent  conversation with Tony Karrer.  I told him I use Google some ( Google News is actually my browser start page), but that I’ve set the default in the Firefox search engine list to GoodSearch. “Why use something other than Google?&# , he asked. “When do you use GoodSearch, and when do you use Google?&#. For very specific or obscure searches, I’ve found that Google works better (i.e., If I can’t find what I’m looking for quickly, I’ll jump over to Google.

At the same time, in the three years since the first edition of this book, options for learning media have continued to multiply and evolve, providing ever more cost-effective choices for anyone responsible for assembling the blend. Blended learning is no longer a major talking point in learning and development and perhaps that’s not such a bad thing. But, as ever, there’s little chance of much peace and quiet, because there’s always another bandwagon not far behind. In the case of blended learning, following it into town came the bandwagon snappily labelled Learning 2.0,

Copyright laws strike me as having a fundamental effect on our democracy and economy, especially in the sense that (1) the free and accurate flow of information is necessary to enabling citizens to make informed decisions, and (2) as copyright laws help provide creators with a base livelihood that enables them to keep creating. Read the comments too, which provide some counter point to Lessigs' argument that free sharing has provided more benefits than harm. Nice radio show interview of Lawrence Lessig by Terry Gross on Fresh Air. About 37 minutes.

Providing up-front assistance and training is essential for the majority of employees to adopt. Start with “seeded” wikis which provide basic information onto which others can being to add links, images and other contributes. Here are few things to consider if you want to help your organization adopt social media tools for learning. Cultural influences in terms of sharing and open information is more important than the technology. An atmosphere of sharing is required for Social Media to be adopted. small group will adopt irregardless of training. Prepare to scale quickly. Web 2.

While I would love for all of them to be able to share the benefits that have provided such strong guidance for my own professional development, I know it just isn’t possible. welcome any suggestions that would help me provide a more “sticky&# introduction to the concept the next time I need to present it to a group. injenuity Home Viral Professional Development Switcher Home > VPD > The Job of Personal Learning The Job of Personal Learning October 26th, 2008 Goto comments Leave a comment I do a lot of thinking about personal learning in digital spaces.

Capturing the performance provides the designer with a blueprint for the next step in backwards planning -- planning the learning process Once the impact or desired result has been defined, the next step in the backwards planning process is to define the performance level that will support the impact. That is, what exactly must the performers do to ensure that the results or outcome is achieved? Defining the desired performance by recording the steps gives the designers an outline on which to base the learning process. Explicit Performance. Is it a lucky superstition?

They won’t limit their professional development to what you provide. Embed learning in a social learning environment and provide tools for learners that act as a bridge. Venkatesh Rao , who does crowdsourcing research at Xerox coined a new term ‘cloudworker,’ the winning word in a Plantronics contest to retire the word telecommuter ( the last time I used ‘commute to work’ in a sentence I wore shoulder pads and feathered hair). Cloudworker applies to information workers; those who compute ‘in the cloud.’ Back to cloudworker. In a house. In a box.

It provides you with a permanent and retrievable record of your development in the area discussed - unlike that scrap of paper or dusty old course manual on the shelf Another one that the learning press fêtes as the "future of learning" is the blog. So what use are these trumped up diaries other than an outlet for egotists , wannabe columnists and the obnoxiously opinionated ? Well, as with most other "new ways of learning", they function pretty much as previous types. In this case, the CPD/learning log. In a previous incarnation I was a classroom trainer for a government department.

I received training today in the development tool provided by one of the market leaders to its customers for the purpose of customizing its off-the-shelf product. Before we travelled to the distant office for our day's classroom training, we sat through about three hours of fairly dull on-line click thru "learning" and read a couple of PDFs we were sent. The courseware made a great deal of the instructional design principles that are this companies backbone, and reason for its position. For all the theory, it basically failed to interest the learner. Whenever that may be.

Simply because it is established doesn' mean it always has to be this way, but as Tufte forcefully argues, they are far more suited than a slideshow to the large quantities of evidence that scientific enquiry demands be provided (after all, peer-review can't happen without it). Last week I spied, tucked on a shelf following a recent office shuffle, a copy of The Cognitive style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within , by Edward Tufte - a critique of Microsoft's infamous presentation app as an effective method of communication. It actually makes for pretty shocking reading.

You could use it in many ways, perhaps with senior managers, or even with a large group to provide evidence for management. Managers provide regular, frequent feedback on performance. provide my manager with feedback on their performance as a manager. Much as I dislike questionnaires without a research-backing , sometimes they can be useful - just to get you started thinking. My work takes me into lots of different organisations, and my research & reading has led me to look at a number of different theories of management - particularly the management of learning. Agree.

Rather than being the source or gatekeeper of knowledge, they become: Learning Architect - putting together the big picture, helping to choose the tools, providing a sense of direction. Modeller - providing an example of how to learn. Connected Learning Incubator - providing the conditions in which networked learning will thrive. The face-to-face event will then be able to focus on practising skills, on coaching and on providing a stimulus towards the next element of change that's required. Wikipedia). Wendy Drexler was one of those learners.

Its based on two systems ( ExponentCMS and Moodle ), which naturally brings the challenge of providing a seamless experience for users. The thing Ive always struggled with is how to provide a consistent navigation interface for users - so they can easily jump between the two systems. As with all integrations there are two parts to it: User login Look & feel With Moodle, getting half-way to the utopia of single-sign-on is quite easy. You just configure it to look at the ExponentCMS database for usernames and passwords. But at least it feels partially unified. Not friendly!

Google Analytics shows visits to site and provides no indication of how popular posts are to readers who subscribe using a feed reader e.g. Google Reader. Mobile Technology in TAFE Sue Water’s blog — HELPING OTHERS Home About Blogs I read Subscribe For Free Browse Blog Archive E-learning Blogging Tips M-learning Most Popular Most Commented Web 2.0 Probably not! But just want to blog and besides I owed Paul C a post for Life is One Big Top Ten (2008). But how to decide? Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours? Email tricks I use. Who do I tag?

“Learning providers will go out of business in a short time and businesses need to realise they are also learning providers as well.&#. Yesterday a dozen senior learning professionals met for four hours in the board room at Thomson Reuters in London. We came together to discuss the future of organizational learning, given such factors as: * economic slowdown and corporate reconfiguration. increasing democratization of the workforce. pervasive internet infrastructure for social networking. convergence of knowledge, knowledge work, and learning. Training is severely broken.&#.

Provide opportunities to experiment, and don’t punish “failures.&#. Provide challenges to groups, not individuals. Provide resources for people to learn things for themselves. Pfeiffer has just published a book entitled Training form the BACK of the Room! 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn , by Sharon L. Bowman. Here’s the Foreword: Sharon Bowman writes about how trainers need to think about learning, plan learning experiences, and deliver the goods in a class or training. Her suggestions are clear, simple, and commonsense. Hello? Keep them engaged.

Have you ever had one of those days when you found yourself logging into a dozen different websites, each asking you to provide a different set of information about yourself (because the site doesn't know who you are), asking you to read and agree to a different user agreement that

Web Site Development Application Service Providers (ASPs). Although Groundspring offers non-profit fundraising solutions, they offer a terrific list of online resources to help you raise funds online for yourself. Links include: Online Fundraising Web Sites Online Fundraising Email Lists Email Messaging. Technology Consulting. Privacy Statements. Driving Traffic to Your Site

Infants, Children Prefer Sounds Over Pictures And Only Slowly Become Visually Oriented, Studies Find COLUMBUS, Ohio -- New research provides the strongest evidence to date that infants and young children -- unlike adults -- are more drawn to sounds than they are to visuals in their environment. In fact, when 4-year-olds are

Corbis sent me a wonderful email advertising their royalty free photographs and providing me with beautifully illustrated instructions on how to create an origami fish. Although my toddler son is too young for the folding process, we're going to stow it away for another time. Maybe your son or daughter (or sister

We watched it on the Speedtv Channel (yes, really, that's a channel offered from our cable provider!) Falling into the "I couldn't make this up" category, today we watched a Combine Demolition Derby on TV. Clarke doesn't watch much TV but this was too awe-inspiring to pass up. and from

Our learning strategies must include improving management support for learning, increasing access to knowledgeable peers or other facilitators for help with application, and providing resources and tools that aid in the application process. Recently I’ve been reading articles and posts warning learning and development professionals that their budgets are about to be slashed.  So I wish people would stop making it sound like we’re an entire industry that doesn’t know how to deliver the goods. . That doesn’t mean budgets won’t be cut. 

Videos in particular can provide amazingly detailed imagery. The book and the paper it’s made from have recently taken a rap. The suggestion is that the book is outmoded. It's well past its use-by date in education and it's not environmentally friendly. like the book. Having had a lifelong association with the invention, I realise my opinion inclines in its favour. To be fair to the book in the context of learning, however, the reasons gathered in support of its removal or replacement should be related to its merits and demerits as a learning resource. It is huge. Video.

Now it appears that loosely connected networks of specialized expertise (such as pharmaceutical networks or the network that was formed to research SARS at the height of the crisis in 2003) are providing answers to the most challenging questions of our era. Science and art have been historically been defined by individual genius. In the 50’s, individual invention gave way to group/institutional invention (i.e. Bell Labs). At the heart of the transition from individual to institution to network innovation is obviously the role of the individual.

The report makes some predictions for the future: a greater integration of offline and other technologies to provide the best aspects of both; a focus on informal learning as a continuous process, rather than one-off isolated blocks of learning separate from 'real' work life; the need for careful and skilled design of programmes; the need for mechanisms for sharing knowledge informally; self-directed learning; a far greater access to information on demand. Thanks to Ron Orme for bringing to my attention Learning at work: e-learning evolution or revolution? " Good point. Absolutely.

In Lessons Learned , Harry Martin describes two cases and provides several links for further reading. I don’t usually get information about training and performance improvement in the Wall Street Journal but this article clearly spells out the benefits of linking training directly to the workplace. Basically, formal training is more effective if followed up with specific objectives for change in the workplace. think most of us know this, but many organisations don’t practice it.

In fact, they believe social software makes controlling a message or providing a consistent set of instructions impossible. Continuing on with the Friday series that - each week - features an LMS that kicks ass, I’m pleased to feature Meridian KSI. spoke with Roy Haythorn, Vice President of Operations for Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC. Let’s find out what’s new at Meridian KSI. Q: Hi Roy. know you’ve been incorporating some social media tools into your LMS. What is Meridian KSI doing with social media? Q: It’s the time of year for predictions.

The medium, however, can provide some unique advantages. Using Competency Models to Target Training Needs: Lessons Learned - ASTD. Josh Bersin explains: Our research proves that organizations that use a leadership competency model are three to four times more effective, and sometimes as much as six times more effective, than companies that don't use models. Yet we have found that fewer than 20 percent of companies use this more effective, integrated approach. 100 Terrific Mindhacks to Make the Most of Your Brain - Find Schools. Ed Cohen writes on "Where the Rubber Meets the Road:".

The departmental director's and the vendor's eyes got really big when I provided that little piece of information. I received a phone call a few weeks back to reserve our training rooms for a special training with a vendor. special piece of software needed to be installed on the training room machines. The installation went smoothly and the technical staff from this department performed the most thorough testing I've seen any of our clients perform. The guy doing the installation and I looked at each other when we got together for followup and said: That was too easy. Famous last words.

It doesn't approach the topic from a learning perspective, instead it provides a much broader view and does a good job of explaining the impact these technologies are already having on organizations. My entry Pedia Palooza hits on some of the same issues by providing links to all types of social media articles. Here are some great reads to take you into 2009 and to get you to think about technology, learning and games from a new perspective. They'd make great stocking stuffers for the geeky person on your Christmas list as well. Applicable for any brainstorming operation.

Thus our first requirement as instructional designers is to ensure the learning initiative provides a real benefit to our customers. If we learn how to do something, we have the capability to perform in a new way. For value to occur, we have to change our behavior and use the new capability in performance. Further, our performance must be aimed at worthwhile results — Brinkerhoff and Apking (2001). The first step in performing Backward Planning for Learning Initiatives is to determine the desired impact that will improve the performance of the business. Rebecca Ray (2008). Ray, R.

Because the business will find their collaboration needs to grow in 2009, while they see IT providing them with fewer services. We provide support, coaching and access to a network of resources. We’re starting to see some interest in our TogetherLearn initiative and one of the main drivers seems to be cost-reduction. came across this future-looking ZDNet article via Bertrand Duperrin and it sums up the situation nicely: However, for business-driven internal enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration projects, I see growth. Our value proposition for TogetherLearn is fairly simple.

In this article, the authors provide a roadmap for the daunting task of shaping strategy as technology-driven infrastructures constantly change. This article from the October issue of Harvard Business Review has fueled my thinking about the profound changes going on in the world economy. Authored by John Seely Brown, Lang Davison, and John Hagel, Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption gives evidence of the industrial age giving way to the network era. It means attracting thousands of participants, galvanizing their efforts, and retaining their commitment for the long haul.

with clarity, should automatically provide you with a goal to reach in terms. internally or commission an external provider is outside the scope of this discussion, but the three routes have different impacts on your cost model. You may also be called upon to provide content support, as e-learning is often. Independent, impartial advice for IT professionals. Not logged in: Login (Password reminder). -->. -->. -->. -->. -->. Independent, impartial advice for IT professionals. -->. Business Intelligence. Business. Enterprise Architecture. Finance. Legal & Compliance. www >.

No matter, what’s important is that the information is out there, and we provide links to all the portals (there’re hundreds) for all the courses.  HR speaking: We got into elearning when there were scattered experiments going on around the organization.  Of course we stopped those, as we need a coordinated approach.  We want to grow in a controlled way. Our first move was, of course, to purchase an LMS.  A good LMS is like a fine automobile, with lots of capabilities to handle all conditions.  We selected the top of the line, to last a long time.  We’re getting more flexible, too. 

In support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, Course Hero provides critical and timely learning assistance through our user-contributed materials and most importantly online study groups comprised of students, educators and self-learners."  What is Course Hero?  This is how they describe themselves: "Course Hero was built by students to help students! Course Hero is an open social learning network for students, educators and self-learners to publish, share and view academic resources online. Course Hero

If you have 5-10 hours per week, become a content provider. I often get the question how much time it takes to blog. Since I'm a meticulous time-writer, I know this blog takes me less time than I'd imagine myself- 4-6 hours per month with 2-3 blogposts per week - but then I measure only the writing of blogposts. If you'd include reading other blogs and thinking through topics for blogposts it'd be much higher. was delighted to find the museum2.0 blogpost talking about the time it takes a nonprofit organisation to engage with web2.0. The image was copied from museum2.0's s blogpost too.

It helps to get to know your audience through your stats if not your comments, and then to target your posts and provide a relevant message for those who really are your audience. And more importantly I believe the internet provides a platform we are privileged to have at our finger tips and to join the conversations as an educator and learner, either as a reader or blogger, is a privilege we should grab with both hands. skip to main | skip to sidebar. ICT in Early Education. Thursday, December 11, 2008. 100 Conversations - Part One. This should keep me busy through the holidays.

Making the Case for Change I knew it was going to be like that so to mitigate the sticking points, I planned for all of the following right from the get-go: built the "burning platform" for change; gained executive buy-in for the need to change; brought on board key influencers from the rank-and-file; mitigated executive resistance to cost by considering offshore service providers. In a previous post about Social network ROI and the value of a relationship , I opened up about some frustrations I had this year getting a social network development project off the ground. But you tell me.

Providing the building blocks for Technical Trainers. Login | RSS. TechnicalTrainer.org. About. Some wonderful quotes. Archives. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. July 2008. June 2008. March 2008. February 2008. December 2007. April 2007. March 2007. February 2007. January 2007. December 2006. November 2006. Subscribe via Feedburner. 100 Conversations. December 11th, 2008 by admin. Tony Karrer wrote a piece about generating ideas for blogging, entitled 100 Conversations. Tony is aggregating the response post here.) in my organization.&#. eLearning? Learning?

The recent addition of related terms (relationship factors) in eLearning Learning that show what how related terms are to a given result set provides some interesting insights. already pointed to some of the Interesting Information that we could see as we compare what different bloggers write about. can also do a query (which is not available through the interface) to see what terms are related to what's being discussed right now. Some of these are no surprise, but others such as Yugma made me notice that version 4 is out, hence people are talking about it more than usual.

Now, the first organization could provide a short 1/2 day orientation overview and then allow employees to go back to the job and work through a series of online modules. Recently I've been working with a couple of organizations that have related but not exactly the same problem. At one organization, the training of a new employee takes so long that managers and supervisors are becoming frustrated at the slowness of the rate of preparation. It is almost 6-8 weeks of nothing but training. By that time bad habits are formed or they know so much they could be teaching the class.

I've been reading various mentions of the new report by Forrester , that provides the following information on the sources that people trust. If you asked me whether I would trust information provided by a blogger I didn't know, I likely would respond the same way. Or basically they show that there's no trust for blogs. held back on posting about this because I thought I was just being defensive. Surely there's more trust than that. So a couple of thoughts. Do you see what's at the top of the list? Email from people you know. certainly feel that way. It is someone I know.

With features like WYSIWYG editors, Content Management Systems (CMSs) provide content management and rapid content update capabilities with a minimum of effort or technical expertise required. Continuing my Friday series featuring LMSs that kick-ass, I’m pleased to profile Latitude.  Latitude is a pure LMS so you may be wondering why the heck are they featured here. Well, because they kick-ass for their view of the role of the LMS. They feel the best way to address social, informal learning (powered by social media)  is not to integrate it into an LMS. Great stuff Kurt! Thanks.

anything else; it provides its own value.  We think this provides a way to dramatically expand the pool of content creators without sacrificing instructional quality and good design. The last part of our strategy is to provide a comprehensive set of services consulting to ensure the success of those organizations embarking on a social learning strategy.  We provide services that address all of these issues â?? trying to do is provide an easy way for companies to move from their existing formal learning strategies to more social, collaborative learning models. 

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Custom short (Less than 1 hour): 30K+ Custom medium (Between 1 hour and 4 hours): 100K+ Custom long (Between 4 and 8 hours): 500K+ Off the shelf short (per user): $30* Off the shelf medium (per user): $100* Off the shelf long (per user): $500* + plus cost of facilitation, * including cost of facilitation Mini games : Small, easy-to-access game built to be simple and addictive, which often focuses on mastering an action and can provide awareness of more complicated issues. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Clark Aldrichs Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations. 24.3.07. Me: Yes.

Professional skills learning provider Cegos polled 254 senior L&D professionals during the last two weeks of November 2008. And increased use of technology really should be reflected in the training provided to L&D professionals, as many are woefully equipped to manage this change.They'll also need to overcome their fear of figures and learn how to talk the language of business, because this is the surest way they can maximise their chances of survival Face-to-face learning will remain the number one method used by organisations.

I really want this blog to grow, to be of interest to you our readers and provide relevant information to you. Ingrid O'Sullivan has a new blog and is the first person to take me up on my post 100 Conversation Topics which asks people to start a conversation with me and get aggregated into 100 conversations. Good for you Ingrid! Sidenote: I feel a little behind having just seen that the company that Ingrid works for Third Force actually acquired MindLeaders back in June 2007 and looks to be a fairly serious player. So, it was good for me to at least get them on my radar. personal?

Will the performance support tool provided to financial advisors increase customer loyalty? Will the employee engagement intervention provide only short-term benefit, or will it have a longer-term effect on engagement and retention? THE PROCESS AND MODEL At its simplest, the model is based on providing metrics that suggest possible tactical interventions, support the creation of action plans to improve the metrics and track the changes in the metrics so that performers can see their progress and continually improve. Most action plans last four to six weeks.

Learning objectives: Resources are chosen to best fit a learning objective, whether it's to introduce a new topic, provide example problems, or for a revision purpose. believe that within strict limits, there may be some exceptions to this such as when a resource may be used to provide enrichment around a topic. In the main, the resources are interactive in that the learner is prompted to the next step within the resource and in some instances given simple questions that provide direct feedback to the learner. In a previous post I responded to a request by Rupa Rajagopalan.

People from my groups who I DID NOT originally know provided me valuable knowledge. From the NY Times : For Innovators, There Is Brainpower in Numbers: "The best innovations occur when you have networks of people with diverse backgrounds gathering around a problem," says Robert Fishkin, president and chief executive of Reframeit Inc., a Web 2.0 company that creates virtual space in a Web browser where users can share comments and highlights on any site. We need to get better at collaborating in noncompetitive ways across company and organizational lines." How did I learn of this article?

When you provide the opportunity to share, (see the Social Learning Question Of The Day responses, great ideas about the benefits of social learning), you’ll see whether your culture is really supportive.  These are uncertain times, and people are curious how to cope.  A recent webinar announcement from i4pc touted how a American Management Association survey concluded: “ one of best ways to avoid becoming victim of the economy is to focus on corporate culture&#.  Of course, I recommend you take the broader steps, not just culture, but culture is key. Lightweight, high value.

And strangely the OEB conference had a ' security and defense learning workshop' , which made me wonder about all the good eLearning can provide. This will be more of a grim post. The biggest aha-moment on eLearning I got this year came when I talked to Nicola Avery last week. We both attended Online Educa Berlin and started venting our frustrations afterwards. The same old, same old. that is what the internet is becoming Social media would make a difference! It would give people the power to gather knowledge, not only that but they would construct knowledge and it would be taken up.

However, what about the case when you are providing tools and really don't have the content defined ahead of time? Maybe we conduct a similar performance analysis and take into account similar considerations and then provide appropriate structure (delivery pattern). Maybe we are providing a Wiki and conducting a barn raising session? I've been struggling a bit to capture a concept that I believe represents a fairly fundamental shift in how we need to think about Training Design. We take into account a wide variety of considerations. Now the interesting part. Maybe it is?

was politely asked for more detail on that statement (which I haven't yet really provided) and I was also told that I needed "perspective" - I actually asked for more detail on that last one but haven't gotten it yet. So yesterday I posted what I thought was a fairly innocuous sentiment that I had namely, that Twitter was now more important to me than my inbox. was a bit taken aback at  - let's just say the tenor of the responses I got. did want to explain a bit further since those comments really made me think a bit more about the statement. My thinking goes something like this.my

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Blogging, especially, provides an outlet for all that’s going on inside our heads, and comments we receive can move our thinking forward.  “Reject the myth that we learn from experience, and accept the reality that we learn by reflecting on experience.&#   - Kent W. Seibert. For a number of reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the role of reflection in learning - especially in learning how to be an effective practitioner in workplace learning. The Web 2.0 I’m afraid we don’t do enough of that.  might be a powerful learning space. 

Sounding boards… The conversations that we have with one another, whether live or online, force us to articulate what we’re thinking and provide us with reaction and feedback that helps us to clarify and refine what we are learning.  I’ve been preparing a class session on communities of practice this weekend, and it’s been underscoring for me just how important people are to an effective learning environment.  Think about the people who help you learn: Who are your role models? . Think about the people who help you learn: Who do you like arguing with?

Collaboration provides an environment for learning; it provides fertile ground for the co-creation of knowledge and skill; it promotes creativity; and it produces better outcomes.  I am one of a disappearing breed of people who actually make new year’s resolutions.  At this time of year, we’re doing business planning and performance appraisals at work; my birthday rolls around again; the year comes to a close; and I am drawn to looking back, envisioning the future, and making a new plan.  As That is a HUGE charge for all of us. > Enable the use of web 2.0

My work with Drupal , as an early adopter, introduced me to Bill who is now providing our platform of choice for TogetherLearn. Today, at 8:00 PM GMT we’ll be introducing our new venture, TogetherLearn. Details are on the LearnTrends collaborative site. This venture is a natural progression of my work over the past decade, after retiring as a military training development officer in 1998, with a freshly minted MEd in hand. At that time, I was reading Jay’s blog and making comments. Through Jay I met Clark and Jane.

The largest military force in the world cannot defeat a loosely knit group of terrorists; the US/Cdn automotive sector has been incapable of changing its business model and our elect & forget political representatives are increasingly hamstrung by an electorate that no longer provides majorities or landslides. In Advice for the Training Department I recommended that those in the training function should concentrate on Communicating & Connecting. Later I suggested that the training department should wake up and smell the coffee or be rendered obsolete. Are you ready

It’s about providing the technology infrastructure that supports finding or making answers. In one of my reflection sessions (aka shower), I was thinking what it is I do.  I’ve been branding it ‘elearning strategy’, but it’s really more than that.  It’s about looking at how organizations develop competence, move to excellence, foster innovation, collaboratively problem-solve, etc.  I’ve had a tagline: “making organizations smarter&# , and the inevitable (and desired) follow-up is “how do you do that?&#.  Are you improving

then they can still vote by going to a specific link the instructor provides. Almost everybody these days has a cellphone - especially students! So a company called Poll Everywhere has decided to deploy an Audience Response System (aka, clickers) by using text messaging on a cellphone instead of a wireless clicker transmitter. colleague of mine (thanks Katia!) first let me know about this company by a comment she left on one of my blog posts. Today I spent some time trying it out and my initial assessment is that this is GREAT! It really works. It's fast. It's easy for instructors.

Fourth, while the fine folks who plan and execute  IITSEC do provide a wifi hotspot (thx ADM Lewis and Barabara), the cheap bastards who run the Orange County Convention Center want to charge me $25 for a freaking day of 'net access! So I'm back from IITSEC and I'm starting to dig through all the backlog of stuff (emails, Tweets, etc) but I did want to post something about this conference since it is a unique experience for me. The unique aspect is that usually I post a lot of stuff from the conferences I attend/present at but not this one. How is it different? First - its huge.

This month's big question - What Did You Learn about Learning 2008 is almost an annual tradition of asking people to look back on the year and provide some inkling of their aha moments. In reality it does an incredible job of surfacing the themes of each of the bloggers and give a sense of them. I'm hoping more people will take us up on this as I find it really surfaces some good stuff that I didn't quite recognize at the time. Themes of : Ken Allan - takes us through his evolution of thinking about blogging and what his readers want. But maybe that's wrong.

A: Will Hipwell- GeoLearning’s GeoEngage module facilitates Communities of Practice (CoPs), enables social networking, and provides access to Web 2.0 technologies and/or are not entirely sure how they can be practically implemented in the workplace and provide value. Of all commercial LMSs, I probably have the most hands-on experience with GeoLearning ’s various products and services having managed an enterprise implementation several years ago. found them very responsive even when I was a giant pain in the ass. The world just moves too fast. Me: Thanks Super Will.

80 million in Africa 2007 +46 million in first half of 2008 What is the benefit of having a 3G network if you do not provide interesting content. Some random notes, hoping that you can make sense of them. Moderated by Shafika Isaacs from South Africa. Shafika is a very energetic and knowledgeable person with an amazing humor (yes, I love humoristic people its seems, because I keep filtering those out of the crowd). And very engaged in elevating global poverty. In Africa the main revolution is a mobile revolution. Unfortunately we underestimated the use of mobile phone.

more really tailored content has to be provided. At OEB there are several things happening, one of the initiatives I like a lot are the Special Interest Group lunches (SIG). This noon I joined Jay Cross at his lunch initiative: what can the learning world expect/tackle in these times of crisis? All of us agreed that the economic crisis will be here for a couple of years, resulting in job losses. So we all better gear ourselves to overcome this crisis, both on a personal and on an institutional level. the world is in an economic shift going gom the industrial age towards a knowledge age.

For now here are the first resources I found about setting up an inexpensive video studio: Setting up a low budget video studio for professional results   - This site provides some helpful, inexpensive tricks to setting up a studio. Also provides diagrams (example below).  . More and more I have been using video in my e-learning courses. These are not high level productions, but they have been effective, bite-size pieces of instruction that add value to my courses. Very Very recently I have been asked to expand our use of online videos. So, what is an e-learning designer to do?

The closest thing one group has to an editor is the guy who provides wiki access to the team. You know that feeling. You are in the middle of a creatively fertile period in your "professional" life. The response and feedback you receive has been constructive. You feel "productive". Certain puzzles are beginning to make sense. You go on a lengthy vacation - long planned and looked forward to. Leaving behind multiple bits of unfinished mental business. Away from the computers and cell phones and social media tools. Oh yeah, I'm sooooo there. No anonymous posting. He's a working historian.

Since it is unlikely that some all-knowing entity will have time for me, I will have to rely on entities that will provide me with less than 100% knowledge. Just getting back from DevLearn08 I've decided to jump into the Twitter thing. You can follow me @WillWorkLearn. Before I fully begin my Twitter experience, here's a thought experiment regarding Twitter. If I could talk to God (or some other all-knowing entity), would it be useful for me (if I'm interested in gaining knowledge) to give up a minute of that precious time to talk with the multitudes? might want to make friends.

And while Harbinger has provided some interesting tools that are essentially mash-ups for authoring, not sure I've seen much adoption. I'm not sure I buy what some of the other LMS vendors are providing around social software. It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008. 37) Training Method Trends (27) Examples of eLearning 2.0 26) Web 2.0 world.

They both provide the practical application of instructional design using technology. It is the 5th year of the Edublog Awards, an awards program for bloggers who use blogs and social media to support education (so it’s a practitioner focus). The program is managed by Josie Fraser and founded by James Farmer. while the focus on the “Eddies,&# as they are called, is the K-12 and higher ed sector, there is a category for “Best elearning/corporate education blog.&#. Best resource sharing blog : Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day by Jane Hart. We need more Dan Meyer.

Rather than external experts being the main providers of information, farmers share information about banana growing/harvesting with each other. Whenever people are able to connect and collaborate, engage in conversations, share expertise, and access information, the impact on a society (or quality of life to individuals) can be enormous. This is obviously true for developed countries. But can the same be said about developing countries? Does giving internet access to a poor farmer in South America, Africa, or in poorer regions of Canada, US, or Europe, benefit? And no. Web 2.0

Think about the following areas: Marketing Sales Product Design Engineering Yes, some portion of the work is routine, but most of the value provided is handling the non-routine. Several people have asked for some clarification on my definition of Concept Work and Concept Workers. To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. One was based on the complexity of the work. Work that requires greater interpretation/judgment vs. work that is relatively routine. call center. And the list goes on.

The interesting thing for me is that this provides a strong justification for using social networks in learning: wikis can be places where people can store the information about problems they’ve solved, discussion boards and profiles fill the need of finding expertise, blogs may support people in their problem-solving as well, serving as a way to share questions and get feedback.  The social network provides the rest of the support around the courses which really only serve the situation where a major skill-shift change is needed. Does it make sense to you

That unknown content provider for the first time, with social media tools, has an outlet. In my continuing quest to change hearts and minds about the use of social media, I think it's important to communicate not only the mechanics about getting around social media platforms but, perhaps more importantly, communicating cultural dynamics. But therein lies the rub. Whom should you trust for information about social media protocol? Who's Your Trust Agent? s'pose much influence can be had by those you hit up first. As with all things, you should make up your own mind.

So, for my kids search has become the starting point for a lot and they know that define: and Wikipedia provide starting points. Along the way, he also found this great video that he provide to his teacher showing people running on oobleck and that they sink if they stop. It's surprising how much I learn by watching my kids (now 13, 11 and 8) go through school today. I've mentioned before the experience of the Ten Year Old Wikipedia Update and also my questioning of Cursive Writing. The most recent aha is the learning associated with kids search behavior. www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/science/scicontinuum/sciglossarylz.htm

This is not so of a new generation of social networking technology, which is being used to provide software services under trading names such as Ning, CollectiveX, Sossoon, Hiitch, Huddle, Mzinga, British Telecom's Workspace (project management), Clearspace, and even Microsoft's Sharepoint. Improved collective performance: Investing in Web 2.0 - Knowledge Board. We are all very familiar with social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. They are almost household names. How does management respond to this? Informal learning - the next big thing?

If only “regular&# professors provided self-analysis and updates like this, students in all sorts of courses would have a better view of what’s going on. George Siemens’ and Stephen Downes’ online course, Connectivism & Connected Knowledge , has drawn to a close after a great twelve-week run. George writes: By way of a final analysis, thousands came, less stayed, and even less contributed. Did we change the world? Not yet. But we (and I mean all course participants, not just Stephen and I) managed to explore what is possible online. All in all. It was fun.

Therefore, in addition to core functions and our integration API's, have and continue to explore more formal relationships with social media technology providers. This post is part of the Friday series "LMSs that kick ass.&# I'll be highlighting one Learning Management System (LMS) every Friday. This week it’s Generation21 (Gen21). spoke with John Stearns from Gen21 about the social media tools and technologies his organization is incorporating into their LMS. Q: Hi John. What’s new with Gen21? What social media tools are you guys incorporating into your LMS? behave.

I really need your help here, if you are a conscientious eLearn provider, please add to the discussion (on your blog, forum, here, anywhere). came across some old school thinking and solutions regarding eLearning (see below). There is an old economic tendency that in times of crisis the training department budgets get cut. For more then one reason I tend to disagree with this tendency. When a crisis hits your organisation or company, that is the right moment to rethink training and boost it. In the press release there are some nuanced quotes and then a very scary one. Yes, I agree.

If you wanted to provide someone with an impression of the Wild West, you could show them an old John Wayne film, you could create a virtual frontier town in Second Life, or you could just introduce them to eBay. Over the past couple of years I have had cause to buy and sell some fairly high-ticket audio-visual items. First I bought a couple of Sennheiser radio mics that normally sell for about $750 each. found them on eBay for amazing prices of around $300. True, they were coming from Hong Kong, but I thought I was probably just getting them straight from the factory. I'd just re-list.

and mundane technology choices, facilitating the development of user-created content and providing opportunities to meet and collaborate, offers immense potential for teaching and learning. The IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of mobile learning research. In particular, but not exclusively, we aim to explore the transition from content consumer to content creator in experiences that take advantage of the learning opportunities this provides. The increasing range of web 2.0

Organisationally, I think we do need to determine learning paths and programmes of learning and development so that we can provide our employees with the opportunities they need to develop. Technology now has provided a way for people to reach through cyberspace and learn from each other (social networking). However, trainers and teachers still must provide some resources as well as develop the higher order thinking skills necessary to maximize the self directed learning experience. First, the interview. Then, the comments. And after that, my response. ‘Does it work?’

Distributed conversations, not packaged as they have been in the past through frameworks such as articles and books, in blogs provide an interesting experience in personal sensemaking. Dave Snowden is well-known in the knowledge management field. He has been kind enough in the past to present to online conferences that we have hosted at University of Manitoba (most recently, our Future of Education conference). Over the last few years, his writings/presentations have taken a turn that very much fits in with concepts presented in this forum and in CCK08. In a recent presentation (.pdf

Statements as broad as those provided in the article (i.e. Short rant. Articles like - Education needs to be pulled into the 21st century - cause many educators to smile and nod in agreement. That’s very nice. We are then treated with the typical mis-focused comment: “I hope to encourage policymakers to better equip our graduates for today's and tomorrow's jobs&#. Education isn’t only about creating employees. It’s about assisting individuals to develop into the types of people that can tackle and handle the continual gyrations of a complex world.

revolution by not only providing social networking, but making it accessible and feasible for businesses. I’m Not Actually a Geek. August 18, 2008. How Are Enterprise 2.0 Vendors Pitching Web 2.0? Using Wordle to Find Out. Filed under: geek — Tags: atlassian , confluence , connectbeam , enterprise 2.0 , jive , jive software , microsoft , movable type , near-time , newsgator , sharepoint , six apart , social software , socialtext , spikesource , suitetwo , traction software , wordle , worklight — Hutch Carpenter @ 6:09 am. Recently, a website called Wordle debuted.