E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The outcomes of those discussions were more about participating and belonging than about specific items of content – the content was already everywhere around us on the web. In translating this experience to the classroom, I try to see the open web and the connections we create between people and ideas as the curriculum for learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 28, 2014

Responsive web design may render my argument moot – but only when rapid authoring tools adopt the protocol, enabling Average Joe to implement it. Instead, concentrate your efforts on the one course that will fit onto desktops and laptops and tablets – ie what your target audience will use to consume it. Mindset #2 – Pull.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Scan the web for mentions of your brand. In this age of Web 2.0, Tags: social media social networking web 2.0 And you need to ensure they know it. I don’t suggest letting anyone off scot free, but how would it look if a multi-national corporation sued a likable young fellow? Twitter engagement kid fury.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Of course computer-based training had been around for decades, but when the World Wide Web took off in the 1990’s, it transformed education. how have you learned from reading on the web, reading books or attending conferences/courses). When I first got into e-learning, it was all very new for everyone.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

That concerns me because I’ve been blogging a lot about a revamped learning model which relies heavily on Web 2.0 I ask you this because what we think we should be doing and what we actually find ourselves doing are often two very different things. technologies to support informal learning. The role of the subject matter expert.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 2, 2011

Everyone knows there’s a wealth of free learning resources on the web, and many of them are relevant to the corporate sector. And published it to the web. Freebies are everywhere, just waiting to be gobbled up. The trick is finding them. There are 2 broad sources… 1. The external environment. • Slides. • Videos.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 22, 2014

Denise, a team leader suggested that operators would be keen to share how they dealt with difficult or complex calls using the web cam on the PC and post it on the intranet. However, I’m not sure if web cams are necessarily the way to go.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Bloggers and Twitterati are self-evident social media fans, so it’s to be expected that some of them will adopt an evangelical view of the role of Web 2.0 Good centuries-old social networking. in world affairs. It certainly played it’s part in Tunisia and Iran, for example.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In a nutshell, the objects in an OLN can talk to one another via web service protocols such as LTI. Mott elaborates: “In the simplest terms, web services-enabled applications leverage the elegantly simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that gave life to the World Wide Web. to share data (as XML) via HTML.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

Annie Murphy Paul recently blogged about this phenomenon ( The Truth About MOOCs: Only 10% Of Students Actually Finish Them ), in which she makes the point that… …for all the hype about making education available for free on the web, we need to work a lot harder to create the psychological conditions that promote persistence, accountability, (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2013

One of them is Udemy – a web-based platform that enables anyone to create and deliver online courses for free. It seems like every time you blink, another free tool becomes available to help you create online learning resources. None of these things is a lecture, but they’re called one nonetheless.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2009

Stephen has kindly made the slides and audio from his session available on Stephen’s Web. They use web conferencing to facilitate large group meetings and also 1-to-1 meetings across geographical boundaries. The Sisters are a religious order working to alleviate poverty in 47 countries around the world.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Video, the Internet and Web 2.0 In terms of e-learning, this “softer” view of technological determinism is a timely theoretical lens through which to see the MOOC phenomenon. didn’t conspire to spellbind people into undertaking massive open online courses.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Of course they had no concept of jet engines, infrared sensors, the World Wide Web and smartphones. In each of the above examples, contemporary practice prejudiced the futurist’s expectations of future practice. They were wearing blinkers. Not so fast. It’s easy to look back with a smug sense of intellectual superiority.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 21, 2008

Think carefully about your profile picture. If you don’t want to see it in your local newspaper, don’t put it online. It all sounds like common sense to me. social networking.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

It warms my heart to see my colleagues asking and answering questions, sharing web articles, crowdsourcing ideas, gathering feedback, praising team mates, comparing notes on where to buy the best coffee, and even whining a little. Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2009

in the cloud) and are accessed locally from a web browser, while the software and data are stored remotely on servers. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to simply log into the software on the web? Wouldn’t it be nice to skip all that? If you need 20 licences now, you can subscribe and have them in an instant.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 1, 2010

I’ve changed my mind about a restaurant or an online shop plenty of times because of negative comments about them on the web. It’s also the long tail of boring, low profile gripes that fester unanswered. Three things you can do. These days, you can’t ignore the phenomenon that is social media.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Humans are the only organisms that use computers, surf the Web, write text, film video, record audio, and engage with one another in online discussion forums. Yes, a monkey might do so in the circus, but the reason we find it funny (or at least unusual) is because it doesn’t normally do that. The poor thing is mimicking a human.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 13, 2008

To shed some light on the situation for both myself and my colleagues, I have found the following sites on the web: • Internetiquette. • Similarly, as the myriad of acronyms and abbreviations used in text-based chat become de rigueur for the tech-savvy, the rest of us are left scratching our heads.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 27, 2013

I’m not inclined to develop device-specific mobile apps, for example, but rather HTML5 that is web-based and device agnostic. Future-proof yourself – The current situation will not remain so forever, so don’t paint yourself into a corner. Just ask the Flash designers!) BlackBerry?)

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 17, 2009

kids and a mortgage: are they really going to surf the mobile web for several hours every week, even though the handset is free? In any case, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: Ragan reported recently that only 10% of Americans use their cell phones to access the web daily. But consider the average worker with 2.4

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The two virtual environments are constant; everything else around them is variable. wikis instructional design implementation pedagogy LMS assessment informal learning environment ILE FLE formal learning environment social learning discussion forums personal profiles learning management system competencies.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 15, 2011

Clinton Smith contrasted the main varieties of e-learning in the VET sector in 2004 – self-paced learning (online courses), online distance learning and web in class – against those in 2008 – live online learning (virtual classes), knowledge sharing (social networking) and virtual worlds, simulations and games.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

Annie Murphy Paul recently blogged about this phenomenon ( The Truth About MOOCs: Only 10% Of Students Actually Finish Them ), in which she makes the point that… …for all the hype about making education available for free on the web, we need to work a lot harder to create the psychological conditions that promote persistence, accountability, (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 1, 2010

social media collaboration e-learning Facebook fan FFA football Football Federation of Australia Grace Gordon implementation Nick Getley participatory culture SMCSYD Soap Creative soccer socceroos social learning strategy Switched on Media web 2.0

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

It warms my heart to see my colleagues asking and answering questions, sharing web articles, crowdsourcing ideas, gathering feedback, praising team mates, comparing notes on where to buy the best coffee, and even whining a little. Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You should be able to do something similar on your own web server, intranet, LMS or VLE. When I published my learning object in Captivate, the software produced a swf file, an accompanying skin, an html host, and a javascript source. All four need to travel together, so I uploaded them to a folder in Dropbox, then linked to the html file.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

While the real-world companies that have entered Second Life thus far have had mixed success, I’d suggest the virtual world remains under-explored by the corporate sector, particularly for e-learning. Second Life e-learning virtual worlds.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Video, the Internet and Web 2.0 In terms of e-learning, this “softer” view of technological determinism is a timely theoretical lens through which to see the MOOC phenomenon. didn’t conspire to spellbind people into undertaking massive open online courses.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Note: This link is not supported in the mobile web version of Google Maps. Whereas Photosynth stitched together discrete photos, you record your photo sphere in a continuous circular motion. Here’s my effort from a friend’s rooftop. Oh the irony.). All you need to record your own photo sphere is the Cardboard Camera app.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 12, 2011

Its principles have been applied to video games , online forums and the semantic web , for instance. What’s this got to do with e-learning? Of course, ecological psychology isn’t new to edtech. However while the screen-based umwelt is obviously important in the modern workplace, I’m also interested in the world around us.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

In the 1990s, constructivism heralded a new dawn in instructional design, turbo-charged by the rise of Web 2.0. Gone are the days of an authoritarian teacher transmitting pre-defined information to passive students.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

You should be able to do something similar on your own web server, intranet, LMS or VLE. When I published my learning object in Captivate, the software produced a swf file, an accompanying skin, an html host, and a javascript source. All four need to travel together, so I uploaded them to a folder in Dropbox, then linked to the html file.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 18, 2009

Instead, I tweet about the enlightening article I found on the web, or the informative video clip that I watched on YouTube, and I follow others in my industry who do the same. Personally, I find Twitter indispensable for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. It’s an international CoP hosted by the Twittersphere.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 21, 2010

The role of the L&D Department.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Encourage them to share these sources with their colleagues via Web 2.0 , and to explain their relevance. To support the development of connectivist meta-learning skills, consider the following: Encourage your learners to find further sources of information for themselves. Run exercises or workshops to develop their content evaluation skills.

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