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Learning, KM vs. SM, Information, Web 2.0, and Second Life

Big Dog, Little Dog

Instead, the study found that students use a limited range of technologies for both formal and informal learning and that there is a "very low level of use and familiarity with collaborative knowledge creation tools such as wikis, virtual worlds, personal web publishing, and other emergent social technologies." Via Gary Woodill.

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Presentation Recap for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Learning Forum

Kapp Notes

Air Force’s Global Learning Forum (GLF) group in Second Life at Huffman Prairie Chi. The group now have over 300 educators, from across several universities, engaged in various collaborative efforts within the 3D world of Second Life. Second Life is used as our primary open access platform for collaboration.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning

Learning Visions

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning [My notes from a webinar. Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning … &#%!? Examples of informal: Water cooler, SoMe Informal learning is never intentional. Lance asks: What happens if you add intentionality to an informal activity?

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Some Facts about Immersive Learning Worlds

Kapp Notes

The other day, a blog reader sent me an email asking about Immersive Learning and wanted some information about what it meant and how it is being used. Examples: Swiss construction giant Implenia is working with IBM to test ways to turn off lights in real buildings by flipping virtual switches in the virtual world of Second Life.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Wachovia is testing social networking for sharing information and developing community within the community. Social networking sites will continue to be important, but they require active leadership. Second Life. (Provided a bunch of stats on social networking usage–I’m not taking notes on all that).

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The Power of X – Experiential Learning in Today’s World

Performance Learning Productivity

It is simply just good leadership and management practice to focus on experiential learning. The main difference between experiential learning and more traditional classroom-based and eLearning approaches is that experiential learning is focused exclusively on action rather than on information. It’s not rocket science.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Learning leaders will be more focused on relevancy of information. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year.