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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

The changes to society will be vast" by @gapingvoid We are on the eve of 2015! IMHO, the shifts and their impact delineated above will enforce and require collaboration -- between individuals, among organizations, between individuals and organizations, among project teams and communities of practices, and such.

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Top of Mind: Experimenting with Social Physics

CLO Magazine

MIT professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland, often called the father of social physics, defines social physics in his 2015 book, “Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter,” as “a quantitative social science that describes reliable, mathematical connections between information and idea flow on the one hand and people’s behavior on the other.”

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning – Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

Learnnovators

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. It is only through dialogue and discourse that patterns evolve.

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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 5: SKILLS LEARNERS NEED TODAY

Learnnovators

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. It is only through dialogue and discourse that patterns evolve.

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Clark Quinn – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

We were not only embedding the best research into our rules, but were adding machine learning to look for emergent patterns and tune our rules. Visual patterns are pretty low-level neural patterns, and likely to be similar across individuals. An adaptive system includes (implicitly or explicitly) rules about how to adapt.

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CLARK QUINN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

We were not only embedding the best research into our rules, but were adding machine learning to look for emergent patterns and tune our rules. Visual patterns are pretty low-level neural patterns, and likely to be similar across individuals. An adaptive system includes (implicitly or explicitly) rules about how to adapt.

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L&D's New Hatrack

ID Reflections

This article appeared in Inside Learning Technologies & Skills Magazine, January 2015 Our professional, personal, and private lives are being heavily impacted by a world that has become Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (a.k.a. I have briefly described some of the skills that are going to be critical in the coming years.

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