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What Web 2.0 will do for you

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Last week at the Trainers & Developers Network , I led a series of activities and discussions about Web 2.0 As learners will also be the same people who are publishing expertise back to the web, an understanding of how to help others learn is important – “good citizenship” in a learning community.

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Web 2.0 and its impact on learning

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There’s an increasing amount being written about Web 2.0 (the the idea that the web increasingly allowing 2 way communication, rather than being a 1 way publishing of information). Technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites and YouTube allow us to re-examine the way people learn in organisations.

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Are confidentiality concerns holding back the e-learning industry?

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If e-learning has a creation myth, it is that the e-learning industry was born out of the dotcom crash at the turn of the century – swarms of freshly unemployed web designers and developers started applying their skills to changing learner behaviour rather than consumer behaviour. Rating systems (e.g. stars from Amazon, likes from Facebook).

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What will be hot in 2008?

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Impact of Web 2.0 The common thread between these two programmes is ‘Web 2.0′ Hence my safe prediction for 2008 is that you’ll be hearing lots about web 2.0. The Trainers & Developers Network is serving up: Improvisation for trainers. on learning. Applied positive psychology.

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5 myths of time management reprised

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If nostalgia about music goes in 20 year cycles, it seems like the web is going for 5 year cycles… Anyway, it seems like an entertaining debate about how tidy your desk should be has kicked off on the AccountingWeb website. I saw that AccountingWeb have republished some tips on time management that I wrote back in 2005.

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e-learning fails to walk the talk?

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In the posting Corporate eLearning’s Dirty little Secret , the results from a survey of instructional designers and developers show that using web-based training to learn about how to use authoring tools is the least popular method of learning. Well there’s lies, damn lies and statistics.

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RateMyTeachers – coming to you soon?

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Throughout the whole arena of Web 2.0, is changing the way that pupils relate to teachers at schools in the form of RateMyTeachers. Will this dynamic also apply in the world of work? Ratemyteachers is a community site where pupils and parents can rate teachers on a variety of criteria from clarity to coolness.

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