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The evolution of personal learning environments

Origin Learning

A personal learning environment refers to the tools, technologies, resources etc. that a person uses at the individual level to build on his knowledge base. By and large, this constitutes John’s Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Much of our learning is informal and happens online.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

The "management" aspect of LMS' creates another problem: much like we used to measure "bums in seats" for program success, we now see statistics of "students enrolled in our LMS" and "number of page views by students" as an indication of success/progress.

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Shred Your Social Media Policy

OpenSesame

In this day and age of doing more with less, social networks enable the (free) creation of a strong personal learning network. A PLN is a self-generated group of people who share information and ideas, provide mentorship and advice and work together to solve problems. Blogs/RSS Readers. Facebook.

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Writing Conversations for eLearning

Experiencing eLearning

In the introduction of the story, show how the mentee or learning character is facing a challenge. That problem is one that can be addressed through your training. If your audience faces a similar challenge, they can immediately see that this training is relevant because they want to solve this problem too. Learner Challenge.

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Curating the Content Overload

OpenSesame

If I were a venture capitalist, I’d invest in applications and companies that attack the problem of curating content. My RSS reader and inbox taunt me with unprocessed information. As learning and development professionals, we have to sort through all of the content that might be worth passing on to our colleagues.

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How to Navigate Social Media (and Avoid Information Overload)

Rapid eLearning

It’s also a great way to build a personal learning network. The problem with unheard of bands is that they’re typically unheard of. Many of the social media tools and sites have an RSS feed. By subscribing via RSS feed, you can access everything from one site rather than having to visit each site that interests you.

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Here’s How to Be an E-Learning Superstar in 2010

Rapid eLearning

In fact, some of my best personal learning comes when someone less experienced tries to figure out how to solve a problem. And you can also enter the community by connecting with other elearning people and following them via RSS feed or other social media, like Twitter. The software only gives you features.