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Social Learning is Voluntary; Collaboration Platforms are Enablers

ID Reflections

What social collaboration platform should we use? How do we get people to collaborate ? My first reaction is to say: "You can''t make people share or get anyone to collaborate." What this eventually leads to is a culture where sharing and collaboration is internally stifled. Collaboration culture social learning'

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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

Over the next two decades we can expect the knowledge of the world to be digitalised, with an exponential rise in user-generated content, "wise-crowd" application and open innovation applications." Some of the principle drivers and needs around collaboration are given below. And that future is rapidly becoming our present.

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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

When George Siemens , Dave Cormier and Stephen Downes came up with the concept in 2008, they had a vision of how a “learning design” based on Connectivism could change the face of learning and collaboration. They are using various tools for PKM ( Personal Knowledge Management ) and taking onus of their own learning.

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Working out Loud and Serendipity

ID Reflections

I have been thinking for a long time about what we, as L&D, need to and can do to foster a culture of sharing and collaborative learning to meet the challenges of a distributed workplace with dispersed expertise and complex work situations. Collaboration future_of_work learning wol Workplace Learning' Meaningful engagement!

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The Changing Nature of Workplace Learning

ID Reflections

From Googleplex''s Designer on the Future of Office Wilkinson proposed building out the entire GLG office to accommodate "activity-based working"--the theory that employees no longer need personal workstations so much as they need many different settings in which to meet, collaborate, or focus, depending on which tasks they''re working on.

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Demystifying Working Out Loud

Learnnovators

“ When people leverage collaboration platforms to contribute and to build relationships, that appeals to their intrinsic motivators of autonomy, mastery, and relatedness. ” ~ Working Out Loud: Better for You; Better for the Firm. It has helped me to develop my personal learning network (PLN) and enabled my PKM.

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

ID Reflections

A MOOC is an intrinsically participative, collaborative mode of learning. However, it is the discussions, collaborative project works, and user-generated content and context that often spill over outside the course boundary which differentiates a MOOC from any regular online course.