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Here Come the MOOCs

CLO Magazine

“That’s an important topic for every CLO to look at,” said Elliott Masie, CEO and founder of The Masie Center, a learning and development advisory. Masie said MOOCs’ first O, for open, is another core principle, and could mean a few different things to learning executives.

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Conferences can be better, a whole lot better

Jay Cross

Community First! Events should focus on nurturing the L&D community of practice before content. Many Next Practices for conferences (I’ve listed 30) are not difficult to implement. Next Practices for L&D Conferences. Here is a dog’s breakfast of suggestions for improving the effectiveness of conferences.

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Everybody knows about network effects: the value of a network increases exponentially with the addition of each new node. When people are actively pulling in learning resources rather than taking what’s pushed at them, the value of the network goes turbo, an effect the authors call the collaboration curve. Metcalfe’s Law.).

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Elliott Masie Learners as designers. Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. Learning apps. Video galore. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Reflections from Adaptive Paths UX Week 2007

Mark Oehlert

I really thought that Andrew Hintons presentation on the idea of user experience as Communities of Practice was excellent. Then we extend the idea ofmanipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective whenpart of an activity the learner experiences as constructing ameaningful product."

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. Response 5 Relevant content and effective speakers. over the years is wearing thin. The right “vibe&#.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Make it Blended!