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Are We Approaching Collaborative eLearning Wrong? - The Individual is the New Group

Tony Karrer

But, he also linked to a great post: The Individual is the New Group - where he points out that the classic notion of groupware has been falling out of favor and instead the concept of soloware with extension for collaboration (think blog vs. discussion group) is gaining adoption.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

Learning teams and projects need to be assigned based on job roles. Teams need to learn to support and understand each other's strengths and weaknesses. Further, the fact that he's suggesting that they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two cycles behind.

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Co-creation

Jay Cross

The “Community&# topic turned out to cover many potential topics: collaboration. learning with peers. discussion groups and wikis. informal learning. My first approximation looked like this: This evening I started divvying things up among the topics. social software apps. Communities of Practice. expert locators.