performance and trying out those skills for yourself on the job, however well supported. The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for December is 'what did you learn about learning in 2008?' Keeping true to my new belief in the benefits of procrastination , I have managed to leave this until the very last day of the month; and, because I have not yet posted any retrospectives for 2008, I thought I'd combine the two. So, here goes, a selection of postings I've made this year, which might throw some insight into how we all. . Lars is Learning .

I also set up the 25 Tools Ning community to support it, which was featured on the Ning blog in June 2008. began investigating the use of the iPod Touch for learning and performance support purposes, and started to put together a list of the top web apps and optmised sites for the iPod Touch for learning and performance support purposes in a  new section of the Centre's website, called iTouch. understand and implement social media tools for learning and performance support.

Great post by Jay Cross that uses the history of performance support to set up the need for what Jay calls Learnscapes. I've been a long-time believer in EPSS and ePerformance . Jay tells us: Performance support is blossoming in organizations today under the label of Web 2.0.. . This is an interesting take. I actually don't think that Gloria would consider external resources (which we've had for years as reference systems that go along with software) as a form of Electronic Performance Support Systems. . Jay does speak to this in his post, but I'm not sure that the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 really gets you performance support.

Overall, what are corporate blogs, feeds, aggregators, wikis, mash-ups, locator systems, collaboration environments, and widgets, if not performance support. ? | Workplace Learning Today on 08.27.08 at 5:02 am [...] Whatever Happened to Performance Support? | Informal Learning Blog | Jay Cross | 24 August 2008 Share and Enjoy: [...] #5. » Blog Archive » Performance Support & Performance Ecosystem on 09.06.08. Happened to Performance Support? August 24th, 2008 | general body,td,th { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif. . And what happened to performance support?

eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning. blogs feed emagine eCornells Online Learning Newsletter: Volume One: Spring 2004 Categories. .  Half of employees that had not participated in a job rotation/stretch assignment indicated that those opportunities were either not available or not used by their organizations; yet, supporting data. . During Fall 2005, Mejias taught a graduate seminar that provided students with hands-on experience working with blogs, wikis, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, and distributed classification systems. . Most of the learning applications discussed are direct translations, such as the bookmarking and blogging applications.

In 2006, I blogged about iPods as training aids in sports . Since 2006 there has been many examples about iPods being used as a just-in-time performance support aid for various training and educational contexts. I was recently at the Eastern Ontario Symposium for Educational Technology in Ottawa. . BirdJam is one example of a tool that creates a just-in-time performance supports for birdwatchers. Just another example of how people are thinking outside the box to make learning a lot easier for us all. . . A myriad number of field guides and a long list of bird song CDs are available. I recently came across an application that uses an iPod, or an iPhone, as a performance support for birdwatchers.

coping with stress knowledge + technical support + blog + ongoing support = instructional strategy for the problem of [retention, cost of mistakes from stress-related lack of sleep, work-life balance, etc. Interesting article in Scientific American about research suggesting potential benefits of blogging for those coping with serious illness. Journaling as therapy isn’t new. And, it isn’t surprising that connecting with others and being part of a community (an added value of blogging) is healthful. However, I can’t help but think that for those looking to improve performance for employees in a stressful workplace (healthcare, military, emergency response workers, etc.