Found this via a post on EdTechPost: Wikipatterns It provides patterns for various roles and adoption patterns. What's great beyond just finding out about Wikis is the beauty of how the information is presented - as patterns. FAQs are a great tool, patterns applied like this is also a good tool.

... going through steps very similar to 23 Things. There's something really nice about this pattern!

The next time you're trip is delayed due to the high volumes air traffic, envision this! (beautiful air traffic plot animation set to music ... one day in the life of air traffic over the United States): Animation UCLA Web ...

... look at it a different way to start making the connections and seeing the patterns. Here’s a different version ...

Saw CBT/WBT - who likes it ? where the author states: In Europe and USA many of our on-line students seem to take courses outside work hours. But they do it in short bursts of activity. In Asia (and particularly Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia) we note that students do much longer periods of study in one session, but mostly during work hours. The same is true in Africa. While usage patterns vary quite significantly based on the individual and the content, I've seen similar general patterns. The author then asks: Why is this the case? Is it that Anglo-American employers just ...

In this year's Brandon Hall awards , all of the winning simulations were sales simulations. Discuss.

Wordle creates beautiful word clouds from text, tags, or RSS feeds. This morning I pasted the URLs of fifteen blogs I frequent into Wordle just for the hell of it. Here's the result. Here's a larger pdf of the same image. See if you can match the word cloud to the blog of: Harold Jarche, Clark Quinn, Learning Circuits, Ross Mayfield, Donald Clark, David Weinberger, Marcia Connor, George Siemens, Curt Bonk, Dave Gray, Robin Good, informl.com, internettime.com, Mark Oehlert, and internettime.ning. Give up? Here's the detail . And here's a slideshow .

... each trajectory, the individual travel patterns collapse into a single spatial probability distribution, indicating that, despite the diversity of their travel history, humans follow simple reproducible patterns. This inherent similarity in travel patterns could impact all phenomena driven by human mobility, from epidemic prevention to emergency ...

This was an information filled presentation by Dave Snowden, wow. The brain is revealed as a pattern processor, in which original fragments last longer as being relevant than the context they are put in by our brain. This said, I will just put out all the fragments I wrote down while attending this presentation: • Cultural differences and evolutionary necessities resulted in different brain evolutions (eastern  western); • The brain scans information and gives ... is increased to the optimum level of fragmentation (screenshot); • Replicate patterns from fragments sticks to ...

When capturing what domain experts know/do for a simulation, one has to interview/watch for high level patterns. What are the patterns that they see play out time and time again, and what are the variations of that pattern? There are basic patterns, like bell curves. There are higher-level patterns, like people hiring other people that are similar to them, or the fact that new technology is always over-hyped. Systems theorists have a library of patterns like Success to the Successful , tragedy of commons , and escalation . From a sim perspective, however, patterns are a might ...

90-9-1 Theory - Wiki Patterns Wiki Patterns explanation of participation in a wiki with the 90-9-1 theory. This includes some of the statistics of participation for Wikipedia and other community sites. tags: community , wiki , patterns , engagement The 90-9-1 theory explains the percentage of a wiki’s participation, breaking it down as readers being the highest percent, with minor contributors composing the 9 percent and enthusiastic and active contributors composing 1 percent of the total participants in a wiki. While it is impossible to overcome this ...

... process of learning. Knowledge is defined as a particular pattern of relationships and learning is defined as the creation of new connections and patterns as well as the ability to maneuver around existing networks/patterns.

I just pulled a report as part of an LMS Evaluation and saw an interesting pattern: The pattern shows that the larger the audience the lower the satisfaction scores. My guess is that Learning Management Systems that target enterprise solutions and larger audiences will come out lower in LMS Satisfaction surveys. Other posts around Learning Management Systems: LMS Selection Presentation LMS Team Size and Time LMS RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process Learning Management Systems (LMS) ...

I received a question about a particular eLearning Design challenge that someone was facing and I realized that the title of my blog and the way I post doesn't really do justice to talking about design and patterns in designing eLearning ... patterns: What Clients Really Want The basis for many of the eLearning design decisions. Top Ten Suggested New Year's Resolutions for eLearning Professionals Several elearning design patterns are discussed. Significant Work Needed to ... . Reference Hybrid A particular pattern for designing eLearning.

It seems that to attract attention these days you have to summarise your idea and intent into a single syllable. Ever since Gladwell's Blink, it seems that every book I pick up follows the same pattern: Sway - the Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behaviour - Brafman & Brafman Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Thaler & Sunstein Yes! - 50 Secrets from the ...

“Common to most anthropologists is a contrarian readiness to search out diverse, improbable kinds of patterning, to be skeptical of commonly accepted categories or boundaries, and to employ varying temporal and geographic scales as tools of inquiry.� Robert McC. Adams Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist’s Inquiry Into Western Technology , 1996.

LINK ) "The World Bank's first API offers 114 indicators from key data sources and 12,000 development photos" Nice...and I wish everyone felt this way.... "We are releasing this API because we believe this information can be mapped, visualized and mashed up in an unlimited number of ways that will help develop a better understanding of trends and patterns around key development issues." ...

Analysis of Problem-Solving-Based Online Asynchronous Discussion Pattern (PDF) tags: asynchronous , discussion , e-learning , problemsolving , research Research on using online discussions for student problem solving. The study found that problem solving discussions were more helpful for students than typical single topic discussions, but instructors can use strategies to guide discussion and encourage more depth.

Trendpedia - blog trend search Graphs the number of blog posts over time which include a search term or phrase. Works even for terms with low numbers of actual posts (e.g., edupunk). You can compare the trends for up to 3 terms at a time. tags: blog , visualization , patterns ...

... contributors over and above Stewart. What I like most about Wikipatterns is the patterns themselves - patterns of behaviour ... patterns that influence the successful adoption of wikis. These patterns are most clearly explored on the website, where each represents a page on the wiki, whereas the book has a more conventional narrative style. The people patterns are of ... ! The adoption patterns are essentially good practice guidelines, as well as warnings against poor practice. They provide ... patterning exercise for e-learning: What practices help and hinder adoption? What characters are you likely to encounter in an ...

March 6, 2005 The Time Is Now In a climate of globalization, mergers and the never-ending drive to accelerate product development, organizations need-more urgently than ever-to tap into resident knowledge. Anti-patterns, avoiding pitfalls Anti-patterns alert you to traps, unforgiving situations, bad places and practices that just do not work! Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles Shifts in students' learning style will prompt a shift to active construction of knowledge through mediated immersion. A Learning Object Approach to Personalized Web-based Instruction The ...

Hate to post again around better conferences but two things: 1. I just saw a fantastic post - Do We Need NECC that discusses a lot of the same issues. And there are some fantastic comments/trackbacks there. 2. On the original post - better conferences - there's been a call for moving this to a Wiki. I'm not really sure what the Wiki would look like, but it seems that there's an opportunity to have something along the lines of a Conference Patterns wiki. It would discuss different patterns that can be used for conferences as a whole or elements of a conference. Unfortunately, ...

During any major change - there is a period of chaos where you start putting together patterns and habits to incorporate that change. I've started my new job and am in the process of learning all sorts of new stuff. I do have some posts ready (kinda) - it just may take me awhile. I'll tell you all about it when I've got life in some semblance of order..... Thank you for your patience. See you on the flip side....

I’ve been enjoying the delightful Australian weather and hospitality for the past week. Today, I presented at Learning Technologies 2008 . My slides - Analyzing the Obvious: Technological and Social Connections have been posted. Richard Feynman , the legendary physicist and educator, used to state a concept most students first encounter in physics: everything is made of atoms. The key to understanding learning is similar: connections, and the patterns they create, are the foundation.

I'm playing a bit of catch up after a particularly busy month - although the way things are looking that'll be the pattern for the foreseeable future. The European e-learning market appears to be thriving in stark contrast to the ongoing financial crisis and what looks like an inevitable recession in the US. As I raised in an early post - training budget shock - e-learning is now very much ...

Wandering the streets of Prague on a misty morning, I was struck by the beauty of the cobblestones beneath my feet. Some cities and towns have uniform cobblestones; Cobblestones in Prague vary from big to little, bordered to uniform, light to dark, and smooth to rough. I became aware of what I was stepping on. Berlin yields some surprises. The cobblestones of Melbourne’s Federation Square are a riot of pattern and color. Art is where you find it.

Tēn� koutou katoa Greetings to you all ( 7 ) ( 6 ) ( 5 ) ( 4 ) related posts - >> ( 2 ) ( 1 ) Courtesy Google Analytics I'm still watching my Google Analytics - looking for patterns that might tell me something useful. It looks like I've a long haul ahead of me. One chart that caught my interest, however, was Traffic Sources showing ... from visitors prompted by the comments, followed by virtually no visits at all. This pattern is not unlike the pattern ...

Posts around instructional design topics, especially those related to instructional design around custom eLearning: What Clients Really Want The basis for many of the instructional design decisions. Top Ten Suggested New Year's Resolutions for eLearning Professionals Several instructional design patterns are discussed. Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional Designers Changes required in ISD, ADDIE and HPT in order to adapt to the current instructional ... particular pattern for designing eLearning.

I first saw Andrew McAffee's post on uses of Web 2.0 approaches inside of corporations - quite good at identifying some different patterns. Then I saw Bill Ives Is Blogging Inside the Firewall an Oxymoron? where he talks about some of the issues with blogs within the enterprise and ends with: Wikis seem to have less baggage attached to them and that might partially (and only partially) explain their recent rise in use within the enterprise. I'd also suggest that part ... Professionals? Not really - see Use of Wikis as Compared to Other Tools . See also: Wikipatterns - A Pattern to ...

... containing electrodes that read brain signals. The technology will distinguish between patterns of brain activity in order to ... players can teach the sofware by associating repetitive thought patterns to individual commands. Think of it, no ...