CLO Magazine

APRIL 13, 2017

If you’re sponsoring or developing a peer learning program, you know that professional communities of practice are a cost-effective way to leverage the collective wisdom and experience of a group of leaders with similar roles, challenges or interest areas. Align around the peer learning community’s purpose.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

While your department creates online and classroom courses on how to use the company’s main products, you see the need for more advanced-level training. If you have hundreds of user communities, you should have hundreds of portals. And , then, you should also empower communities of practice to create their own portals as well.

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Web Courseworks

MARCH 22, 2010

When it comes to eLearning, the Guild is a trusted source of information, networking and a true community of practice. What I hope Marcia discusses is how to combine social media within formal eLearning courses. Clark Quinn is one of the most important instructional designer/thinkers in our eLearning community.

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Obsidian Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Tag it, title it, and organize it visually in buckets labeled for my job role, or even for me personally. Microcontent is not the place for 15 variations on a theme—that’s the in-depth advanced course or the discussion forum. In this example, the WBT course is a shell that ties together many pieces of microcontent.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. Tags: corporate training e-learning 2.0 David Wilkins in Learning 2.0 Knowledge Delivered in Any Other Form Is.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

MARCH 4, 2009

Source: Nancy White’s online facilitation course. Source: CPsquare’s foundations of communities of practice online course. Tags: online facilitation online interaction elearning. They are allowed to post again if at least one other participant has put up three words. Six degrees of separation. Personal Cards.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2010

Trying to create a community of practice in terms of faculty development – that social piece for faculty teaching online. Marlene Zentz, Instructional Designer, University of Montana Come from working with college faculty – to create powerful online courses. Interested in establishing community for distance students.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

But of course, tweet scanning also falls into the Customer Service portfolio. The latest warm & fuzzy activity undertaken by its staff for the community. For example, I use Twitter as an international community of practice. Tags: Twitter informal learning social media social networking enterprise 2.0

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 23, 2010

There are a couple of things to like, including that they start by analyzing the performance gaps and causes, and are willing to consider approaches other than courses. For instance, I attended a talk on Communities of Practice, but was dismayed to hear discussion of monitoring, managing, and controlling instead of nurturing and facilitation.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2009

We’ve got courses, if they want to be social in the classroom, fine, but all this hype about social learning is just a way for consultants to try to sell old soda in new bottles.”. B: “So you think learning is about courses?”. Yes, they’re learning, but it’s not like courses, it’s not education!”. What else?”. B: “I hear you.”.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I'm not entirely certain what people will use the new Twitter lists service for, but I can of course speak for myself. Personally, I intend to use it as a kind of filtering tool, so that I can click on my specific list and hopefully see tweets that are grouped around a particular community of interest of practice.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We learn by doing, and we more actively engage with learning when we create artefacts that can be shared within social contexts such as communities of practice. There are many other ways to create content besides the blog of course.

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Janet Clarey

AUGUST 19, 2009

I forgot to tell him the part about me needing electricity and, of course, at 12:55 I lost power. At the end of the presentation, I tried something different and shared Wordle so we could make a word cloud for two issues: what things make a bad classroom training session and what an ideal online community would look like.

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Obsidian Learning

MARCH 11, 2015

Building on the concept of communities of practice , Etienne Wenger (2009) has proposed a social theory of learning. The focus of this theory is “learning as social participation,” in which learners actively participate in the practices of social communities and construct personal identities in relation to these communities.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

An LMS is without question the most efficient way to list courses, register participants, track registrations and completions, and provide all the volume-related (level 0) information required to run manage the learning function. Used in this way, portal technology increases the efficiency of the LMS.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

There is a great deal of cross over here with personal learning environments (PLEs) of course, particularly in relation to user generated content and sharing within a community of practice. et al (2007) Personalised Learning: Ambiguities in Theory and Practice. Reference Campbell, R. Unported License.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

To change best practices, redefine roles or create a sustainable solution requires a sustained effort that goes beyond the limited parameters of a project. Of course, there are different types of project approaches. For example, a business unit may have subject-matter experts who need tools to run a community of practice.

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Learning with e's

JULY 26, 2009

I found a very readable article today on the use of blogs to promote critical reflection and community of practice for language teachers. Using Blogs to Enhance Critical Reflection and Community of Practice. Tags: teacher training critical reflection TEFL blogging professional development. Reference: Yang, S.-H.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

What is curious though is that much of the discussion around Informal Learning seems to center on Communities of Practice. I personally think that there's a disconnect between the design and implementation of HPT solutions and the "free range" approach that many in the Informal Learning community take.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Companies are attracted by the low price tag. Consider what’s changed: We used to think that communities of practice could only sprout up organically. The web gives unprecedented free access to college courses, how-to videos, advice columns, and experts. Informal learning tops many training department agendas.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

She signed up for an online course on the Affordable Care Act and formed a CLO group of health care industry leaders to share best practices and network with her new peers. “I The communities of practice give them access to a network of peers who can help solve problems and share best practices.

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Pinnacle CLO Case Study Learning 68

Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2010

Conversation is of course often technologically mediated in this digital age. In the same way, as we travel down digital pathways we leave a trail - perhaps a social bookmark, a Delicious tag, a Stumbled Upon note - which points the way for others to find your nugget of information. But we are also teaching each other.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tags: social networking. In some cases the results have been transformational. We have got by without all these techniques in the past and many organisations will make a determined effort to get by without them in the future.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2010

The book Kitchen Confidential (Harper, 2001) by Anthony Bourdain describes how he become a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. Chefs are a community of like-minded individuals who identify with one another, advance the practice of their profession, and help new entrants join the profession.

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Learning with e's

MAY 11, 2009

Best practice in using these new tools for course design, assessment, support and creativity are often learnt from others. Being locked into a good community of practice is a must for the e-tutor. Tags: e-learning Steven Covey teacher skills. Without a social network, most of us won't survive.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The curriculum was limited, managers decided whether their people attended courses, and there was no clear vision of what effective leadership looked like. Throughout the program, participants work in communities of practice to propose solutions to strategic issues and build networks that support long-term success,” Kennedy said.

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Learning with e's

MAY 4, 2010

The panel responded that OERs are not the same as RLOs, for one simple reason - Learning objects are usually decontextualised (stand alone) whereas OERs are generally contextualised within a larger module or course/programme. Tags: Quality Assurance OER Windhoek Namibia. The second question was asked about design and content.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

Among others, a learning consultant may need to analyze performance issues, conduct training needs analyses, create a course catalog, create technical/managerial learning paths, select tools, select vendors (courseware, technology, processes etc.), This is where instructional design, course development and training activities come into play.

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Consulting Social Networks LinkedIn Discussion 141

Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2009

Conversation is of course often technologically mediated in this digital age. In the same way, as we travel down digital pathways we leave a trail - perhaps a social bookmark, a Delicious tag, a Stumbled Upon note - which points the way for others to find your nugget of information. But we are also teaching each other.

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Social Networks Wiki Social Social Bookmarking 62

eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Or how I feel connectivism opens up content creation and access - Ignatia Webs , January 28, 2010 In 2008 I enrolled in the CCK connectivism course. It was the first time I took such a mass course and … I liked it, though I could not really say why I liked it. 5 Easy Tips for Teaching Online Courses , January 18, 2010.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2009

Yet over the course of a few hours, Henry's small dishevelled army systematically took their enemies to pieces with the result that the French dead were piled up in walls, and their noble families, sometimes three complete generations, were slaughtered like cattle. UK: England & Wales License.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Benchmark and measure changes in motivation, expertise and performance over the course of the learner experience, but also strive for more detailed marketing-style analytics if possible. Michael Noble is the chief learning officer and executive vice president at Allen Communication. Lunch groups, online forums, conferences, etc.,

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Key Social Learning Roles - Daretoshare , April 4, 2010 Premise : Learning communities or networks thrive because its members possess certain skills and capabilities. Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows. …Tags: Tags: Informal Learnin.

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Learning Rebels

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Here you are, knees-deep in designing courses, running training sessions, and trying to make a real i mpact in your organization. A good curation tool will help you categorize, tag, and annotate information. The tagging feature allows you to categorize your saved content, making it easy to find exactly what you need later.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ZaidLearn: 75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course! How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course , Rapid eLearning Blog , January 27, 2009. Blogger in Middle-earth: Working With Online Learning Communities - Blogger in Middle-earth , April 14, 2009. Off Course-On Target , January 9, 2009.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2010

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Event management. What is missing.

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Social Media 73

Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

And, of course, part of the scattering is that people in different kinds of organizations are going to have different needs. Tools - A Summary and particularly my use of the course wiki as the basis for putting course notes, having each team put up their work, etc. I somewhat expected that the answers would be scattered.

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