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Theories for the digital age: Connectivism

Learning with e's

Much of this learning is informal, (Commentators such as Cofer (2000), Cross (2006) and Dobbs (2000) place the proportion of informal learning at around 70%) and is also generally location independent. These facets of modern life in combination have led educators to question the validity of pre-digital age learning theories.

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Are we taking into account the culture surrounding our students?

Kapp Notes

As technology evolves and changes over time, a culture will either change with the technology or disappear or, in some rare cases, the culture will shun the technology and remain isolated from the rest of the world. When groups fail to change their culture with the technology, they risk isolation. References: Delpit, L.

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New wine, new wineskins

Learning with e's

The meaning of the parable has been applied as a popular metaphor to show how volatile it can be at the nexus of old and new cultures or ideas. Alvin Toffler illustrates this phenomenon quite eruditely in his book Future Shock , warning that where old and new cultures clash, there will be disorientation, confusion, stress, disruption.

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

“Further, educators have long known that thinking and learning, as simultaneously cognitive and emotional processes, are carried out not in a vacuum but in social and cultural contexts (Fischer & Bidell, 2006). And even if everything were reducible to the individual, we’d still have to decipher how these learners function.

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A Brief History of Instructional Design

Origin Learning

From ‘training’, which was merely considered a passive function in an organization, the emphasis has now shifted towards making learning and talent development an integral part of corporate culture. A Rising Interest in Constructivism and the Importance of Performance -1990s.

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Meet the CLO Board: Tamar Elkeles

CLO Magazine

What you can do with reinforcement theory and what you can do with “training” people and continuously working with folks, you can get them to do pretty amazing things. I’ve been doing mobile learning since 2000 — 20 years ago. A robust program is also a part of creating a learning culture.

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Social Technology, Community Management & Organizational Development

Learnnovators

I am not going to tread into management theory or organizational structures in this post. And this happened around 2000. The role will have to: Study the current organizational culture (this requires an OD background). The diagram below taken from The Second Machine Age (a must read book) by Andrew McAfee, et al.,

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