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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

MOOCs have taken the world of higher ed and corporate learning by the proverbial storm. 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.

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The best elearning reads of 2013

eFront

How Technology Changes The Skills We Need To Learn , Forbes. Being explicit about corporate learning , Clark Quinn. Why Learning is Complicated , Dennis Callahan. How to Build Effective Online Learning Communities , Edudemic. eLearning Learning News Resources articles' Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDNet.

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

As an aside, what finally pushed me to create this series was a great post by Sue Waters' about creating your own personal learning network (PLN). This made me look back at a post I did quite a while ago - Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective.

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Taking gamification in training to the next level

Matrix

She rejected my call and I got three very bewildering texts: “bus” “can’t phone” “chasing pkm”. Gamification – an effective panacea. For corporate learning, the rise of gamification means that L&D professionals need to step up their game. These include politics and civic institutions.

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Sahana Chattopadhyay – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

She blogs at www.sahanac.com on topics related to the future of work, the shifting digital trends, and their deep impact on how we will work, learn and live in the future. What according to you are the competencies required for learning professionals to become intelligent curators? Sahana: Curation is a specialized skill.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

If you’re into meta-learning, you should track what’s going on there. Corporate learning and KM are both about getting the job done. How do you implement personal knowledge management (PKM) for yourself and your organization? I can’t tell where one stops and the other begins.

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35 Top eLearning Articles and 6 Hot Topics for March

eLearning Learning Posts

And I was happy to see that my Twitter for Learning post got the top spot for the second half of the month. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - eLearning Technology , March 24, 2010 Collection of articles around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. March 15, 2010 to March 31, 2010.