Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2019

The proliferation of technologies such as smartphones, social media and email means employees are increasingly exposed to task interruption. First there is the social impact: Communication technology may create a psychological distance between people; it can have detrimental effects on our concentration.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

Shirky shows how, similar to hive and swarm behaviour seen in animals, humans perform in networks and thrive within '' architectures of participation '' - so whilst bees make hives, humans create mobile telephone networks and the internet. We know instinctively and empirically that people learn best when they are in rich social contexts.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Social media now provides a way.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Social media now provides a way.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences." Most of us are connected to each other through numerous social media platforms. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. Webinar tools include Elluminate (now known as Blackboard Collaborate), WebEx and Adobe Connect all of which have similar screen topographies and perform similar functions, but all have an associated cost.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2011

Goffman saw social interaction as a drama performance, in which the actor's behaviour was framed by front stage and back stage roles, scripts, props and costumes. This has great import in our understanding of how we perform to audiences in social media (of which more later in this post).

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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

If possible, allow for more interactivity so learners can try out the simulated software a bit to better understand how to perform a task. Peer or Social Feedback. In a training context, you can use collaborative and social media tools to give and receive peer feedback from colleagues. That’s real world feedback.

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Learning with e's

MAY 28, 2012

This echoes Goffman's (1967) drama theory where individuals manage their impressions in a kind of performance in social contexts. Digital Futures: Innovations in Mobile Learning View more PowerPoint from Steve Wheeler There is no denying that at its heart much good learning has a social component. Goffman, E. Katz and M.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Each in its own way wants to measure and judge the effectiveness of education, but each does it in the wrong way - by relying exclusively on metrics that impose impossible pressures on teachers and students alike, and ultimately end up getting in the way of good learning outcomes. We all need to row in the same direction. Unported License.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2009

9% Hit us Hard 47% Hurt a little 41% Not much effect 3% Helped us MYTHS the Business Side Has about Learning Client asked him to develop a course for business side. Training alone produces improvements in on-the-job performance. Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th. Next Brown Bag will be Friday February 6th.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Understanding the Tools of the Social Learning Landscape - Free as in Freedom , November 2, 2010I am with Mark Oelhert this morning in his all day workshop about the tools of the Social Learning Landscape. Mark’s focus is to look at social media tools, their impact on an organisation’s culture. few thoughts.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) Identifying training opportunities (drive performance by improving knowledge/skills). Business managers need to be part of solution in order to ensure that training sticks and that performance does improve.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2019

Photo by Jeshoots on Pexels In my two previous posts here and here I've been writing about how the use of smartphones and other personal devices and technologies in the workplace can have negative effects on concentration, memory, task completion and social interaction. It's not all bad news. Can the two be mutually supportive?

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 16, 2010

Virtual Team Management - ID Reflections , March 8, 2010 I recommend this simulation to all those who either are handling a globally distributed team or a project, and to all managers who feel that effective communication is one of the keys to business success. Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The bonus of so many of the social media tools we use is that our pictures are attached. Or is it substituted by other tools (how effective?)(web How simple and effective is that eyebrow raise? And how effective is that substitution? I felt this medium was very time effective bearing good results.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Anyone who is interested in the social media phenomenon would be very interested to read this from Abday Adhikari, writing in the Guardian : Every time we publish information on the internet, we are effectively starting a conversation, because people can respond or react to it. We create the opportunity for dialogue.

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Mindflash

APRIL 26, 2012

Social Learning is a term that is rapidly spreading throughout the learning and performance field. Don’t get me wrong; I’m a big believer in the natural learning that occurs through social interactions. We starting inherently linking the two, as if social learning happened exclusively through social media tools.

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ReadyTech

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Creating engaging, interactive e-learning programs that effectively communicate desired learning outcomes is no small feat. In general, e-learning can be defined as the process of using computer-based media, such as audio-visual aids, animations, and virtual reality, to deliver education and training to students.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My post argued that teachers should not and could not be fully replaced by technology, because of the rich emotional, relational and creative aspects of the role they performed. It's often the case on social media that some are unable to frame their arguments without a personal dig at their opponents). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the flipped classroom, games based learning, social media and mobile learning - on the face of it - seems to herald a new dawn for education. Teachers perform roles that even the most powerful computers could never replicate. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

When I wrote Blogging with Freire , I was speculating on what that great Brazilian educator and theorist might have made of educational blogging - a concept he never knew, because he died before the Internet and social media came in to common use. Learning by asking questions is not only fun, it''s effective.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

A campaign that’s a continuous storyline involving a set of adventures and characters (learners) to achieve a set goal… Design and develop learning campaigns that involve storylines, adventure, social media, people – every campaign has a structure to it – there is a formal development/design process.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 26, 2018

Wednesday, August 1, 2018, 9AM – 10AM PT: Mousify Your Organization’s Performance: Five Keys to Disney-Inspired Success Examine the five Walt Disney–inspired strategies for peak organizational performance—Purpose, Priorities, People, Platform, Process—and learn how Walt Disney applied each of them to his theme park business.

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