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ASAE Annual: A Gathering of People Who Build Communities of Practice

Web Courseworks

What makes the Association market space so interesting to me and others involved in eLearning is that for individual professional development and for community building, Associations is where it all takes place; or at least, it should. According to Wikipedia here is the definition. “A Tags: ASAE.

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The Working Smarter Fieldbook: A Glimpse and Some Thoughts

ID Reflections

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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The new workplace

Jay Cross

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. People communicate with texts, Tweets, iPhones, email, and blogs in their personal lives, and expect to be able to do so at work. The information explosion has hit.

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Learning Agility: Re-Invention with Performer Support

Living in Learning

A perfect example is the proliferation of social networking and expansion of communities of practice as readily available sources for bogus performer support right along with the good stuff. Can you say “Wikipedia”? Tags: Continuous Learning. My point is this – Performer Support may take many other forms.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

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. Wiki- looks nothing like Wikipedia.

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Internet memes - chains you can believe in

Learning with e's

For those who are not in the loop, the term ' internet memes ' is 'used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet, much like an inside joke ' (Wikipedia). Or for the benefit of our communities of practice? They will appear as links on this blog in the coming months.

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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

It’s been influenced by lean manufacturing and spawned practices like Scrum. Yet the agile community remains pretty insular. Only lately have people seriously explored how agile principles and practices might be used outside software development. Agile Software Development on Wikipedia. Related: Agile development.