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My first MOOC

Allison Rossett

Participating in my first MOOC was akin to my early experiences exploring Second Life and other virtual worlds – something new and compelliong under the online-learning sun. At IBM I am asked to think about and experiment with learning experiences that extend the physical classroom and push beyond it. In part, it’s my job.

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Speaking and Workshop Services

Tony Karrer

Dr. Tony Karrer is an expert on innovative uses of technology that improves human performance and drive business results. Tony educates individuals, businesses and organizations on social media, web 2.0 Its good to hear of the solid business and learning applications for these technologies." Considering that he's a Ph.D.

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Time Is Money

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

At the end of the last century, Sun Microsystems was a high-flier in the workstation business. Sun was bringing 120 new salespeople a month to a one-week immersion course in Santa Clara. The new hires went through briefings on equipment, applications, competition, Sun, and more. Here’s an example. asked Jerry.

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eLearning Tour - May 21 - Free

Tony Karrer

More on our tour guides: Karl Kapp Karl is a consultant, speaker, scholar, and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. In the next few days, I'll have more specifics on what examples will be part of the event that day. in Computer Science.

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Jay Cross - Untitled Article

Jay Cross

The Ultimate Business Time-Saver. Results: About 20% of the small-business owners I spoke to had heard of the product, and approximately 0% could describe what it actually does. Even after 15 years in the technology business, I found myself at a loss to explain (let alone justify) these sorts of collaboration tools.

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Contents of the informal cloud book

Jay Cross

IBM, 24, 119, 120, 187, 188. Sun Microsystems, 28. Tags: Business learning Innovation decision-making. Google, 20, 68, 79, 81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98, 113, 115, 116, 120, 124, 130, 131, 142, 152. Hans Monderman, 108. Harold Jarche, 65, 180, 186. Harold Stolovitch & Erica Keeps, 61. Hermann Ebbinghaus, 59. holistic, 32.

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[from gminks] Social Learning Measurement : eLearning Technology

Tony Karrer

In this, Eric suggests the following minimum measures: Networking patterns - the relationship between people and content categories, the network make up or profile (business unit, job, level, etc), key brokers and influencers by content category, and the degree of networking across silos. Anyway, thats my two cents for now.