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Posts that Influenced Me in 2009

ID Reflections

Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future (LeftLane Blog) What did I learn: We are moving/have moved into a world where all the mechanical, logical, structured, left-brain tasks so highly valued in the Information Age will now be performed by machines, tools, computers, technology.

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User Profiles: Spanning Structural Holes

ID Reflections

As he and the team rack their brains for solution, Alex suddenly recalls Sam, whom he had met all those months back. Alex and the team rack their brains to come up with a solution. Months have passed after that meeting. Sam had mentioned this as one of his key areas of interest. Maybe, Sam can help…And indeed, Sam can!

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Top Posts from August - Augmented Reality - Social Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Social media is a fad. Nuts and Bolts: Brain Bandwidth - Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design by Jane Bozarth - Learning Solutions Magazine , August 2, 2010 Designers often overload learners with information, hurting learning and learner motivation, and thereby undercutting the very thing we say we want to accomplish.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network , March 4, 2010 Educase piece. Social snake oil - Learning and Working on the Web , March 1, 2010 Knowledge management (KM) was a most promising field until it was hijacked by software vendors who were selling IT systems for six figures. Good stuff.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Moderator (Clark Quinn): the question is, leave KM to the propellor heads, or getting learning folks into the model. Moderator (Clark Quinn): CoP is NOT training, but 'training' (learning) folks have a role in making it work. KM, TM, etc. Is there an emerging model for social learning? Asif: well said.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning taints the conversation. Better to speak of collaboration or boosting brain power. I changed the name of my new book from Informal Learning in the Cloud to Working Smarter. Talking about learners conjures up the bad old days of taking people off the job to learn. Increasingly, learning takes place on the job.