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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEARNING IN A SANDBOX OCTOBER 7, 2010 Learning culture and social media Willingly, training staff provides a training that seemingly fits the need and all are happy. If we talk about learning in organizations, many people will think of courses that are offered by the company’s training department. If we say e-learning, this is often associated with web based training modules. This is what we mostly refer to as “formal learning&#. As we all probably (intrinsicly) know, there are more opportunities and places to learn than the formal classroom or web-based courses. What do you do when you are stuck with a problem at work? Culture. Learning Culture. | LEARNING IN A SANDBOX JUNE 14, 2011 Promoting and assessing the value of communities Etienne Wenger, Beverly Trayner and Maarten de Laat provide a conceptual framework that “should make it possible to assess value creation&# in communities that are used for social learning activities. This framework can provide some guidance in how to show the value of community for the organization and it also gives insight on how to promote the use/ value of a community. wonder if it would be possible to provide ROI as well. Recently, a wonderfull paper on the value of communities of practice and networks was published. Immediate value: activities and interactions. | | | | | |
| LEARNING IN A SANDBOX DECEMBER 15, 2010  Business model generation for communities John started with a short introduction to the model and showed us some examples of business models for communities that he had worked with lately (will provide slides later). This week, John Smith visited The Netherlands. John was on his way to a conference in Saudi-Arabia and wanted to adjust to the time zone (his words :)). Which is a great thing, so we had some time to spend with him. | LEARNING IN A SANDBOX OCTOBER 27, 2010 Mentorship in CP2 Foundations workshop For people that are more advanced, the workshop provides an opportunity to get into conversation with fellow participants as well as Wenger, Smith and Stuckey. There are also places that we call “households&# , small groups that provide a more private space to learn and reflect. Thanks to John Smith for inviting me to join as a mentor and providing me this great learning opportunity! Over the past 6 weeks, the Foundations of communities of practice workshop was held in CP-square (CP2). The foundations workshop is led by Etienne Wenger , John Smith and Bronwyn Stuckey. | LEARNING IN A SANDBOX DECEMBER 2, 2010  Fields of connection Looking at organizations from this systemic perspective can provide a more holistic view and can be of value in personal as well as organizational development. I’ve finished reading a very interesting book “ Fields of Connection &# by Jan Jacob Stam (i’ve read in Dutch: het verbindende veld). The book is about the practice of systemic work and organizational constellations. | LEARNING IN A SANDBOX NOVEMBER 20, 2008  Towards “the real feeling of presence” Not to forget that having (physical) contact with colleagues inspires, engage and provides energy. It does not attempt to provide a Second corporate Life, rather it attempts to enhance or complement real life experiences. Wonderland has been initially developed by Sun in order to provide their employees an immersive 3d space for collaboration. Immersive Workspaces in SL. The 0.5 | | | | | | | |
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LEARNING IN A SANDBOX | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008 “The classroom is nothing less than an state of the art information dump”
Its sheer size, layout, and technology are testaments to the efficiency and expediency with which we can now provide students with their required credit hours.&#. This weeks topic at the cck08 course is about “ Power, control, validity, and authority in distributed environments “, wow thats a whole lot of ground to cover in just one week. Moreover, i believe that the questions and issues that arise from this theme are very important if we want to move forward towards a more open and connected way of learning in (formalized) institutions. In this book (published in 1969!) MORE >> -
LEARNING IN A SANDBOX | FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009 Social Learning at Sun
As a result of that they couldn’t provide the training hours needed to meet the training needs of the sales people. Via a tweet by @trishuhl I came upon a nice case study from Bersin & Associates on social learning at Sun Microsystems. It is a description of the “ Sun Learning eXchange “ This is a sort of Youtube site which Sun employees can use to exchange content. What I like about the project/ the case study is that it started from a real world business/ learning problem instead of just mere looking how to use popular webtools. informal learning??). MORE >>
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