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Great post by Karl Kapp -Immerse Yourself in Another Language. As someone who's always felt that immersion is the best way (possibly the only way) to really learn languages. While I like the new tutoring systems such as EduFire, the idea of putting someone in a virtual environment to learn the language is fantastic.I've mentioned before that I also think Second Life as a Learning Tool can be fantastic if you set up an environment like Plymoth Plantation - a recreation of Plymouth where actors playing the part of Native Americans and Colonists told stories and answered questions about ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsDysfunctional Teams
... hold one another accountable creates an environment where team members put their individual needs or even the needs of their division above the collective goals of the team.What else can you focus on? Feelings. Relationships.Healthy teams: Members trust one another. They engage in unfiltered conflict around ideas. They commit to decisions and plans of action. They hold one another accountable for delivering against those plans ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
... technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as ... -World Experiences in an e-Learning Community 15. Building community in an online learning environment: communication ... 24. Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge 25. The Bamboo Project Blog: My Personal Learning Environment An ... of an online learning environment | FunnyMonkey - Tools for Teachers 59. E-Learning & Web 2.0 60. Bloom's ... (Techlearning blog) 63. Personal Learning Environments Wiki - JITT 64. The Wales-Wide Web | Personal Learning Environments ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - Comments90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments
I was just talking to someone who is regular reader of my blog and they claimed that I had never officially posted about the 90-9-1 Rule which is often referred to as the 1% Rule. Basically this rule tells us that in collaborative environments, e.g., discussion groups, wikis, etc. for every 100 people that sign up:90 will lurk (read with no active participation)9 will participate in a limited fashion (maybe rate or comment periodically)1 will regularly post contentOf course ... careful about overselling the amount of adoption.And even with these efforts and while some environments differ in ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsFun Game or Serious Game
Found via Bad Science -A really fun game (simulation) that let's you create things and control the physics (dynamics) of the objects and the environment. Does that make it a serious game? Maybe.You pretty much need to watch the video for a while to figure out what it is. Time to get my kids started on it.You can download the program for free at: www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/ ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - CommentsPersonal Learning Tools and Technologies
Systems Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion Personal Work and Learning EnvironmentsPWLE Not ... Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them - Good summaryJeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and TechnologyThe Inevitable Personal Learning Environment PostDerek's Blog: More on MLEs and PLEsPersonal Learning Environments WikiThe present and future of Personal Learning EnvironmentsWikipedia: History of personal ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
... environments, e.g., discussion groups, for every 100 people who sign up, 90 will lurk, 9 will participate in a limited fashion, and 1 will regularly post content.Without anything else involved, you need a fairly large audience to get significant participation.Of course, you can try to improve those percentages through:Incentives or requirements (students must blog - it's graded)Community cohesionFocus (short time frame, limited topic)Integrated as natural activityand other adoption models ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsPWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning
... out at me:The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from ... personal environment. But, too much structure is not going to work.I mentioned quite a while ago (in Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments) that:Knowledge work is not ... . To me, it does not make sense to look at using one environment (an LMS or PLE) as part of learning and ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - CommentsCorporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis
... learner hour. Focus on Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments. These challenges represent some pretty dramatic questions for us: How do we get into the attention economy business?How do we dramatically lower production and delivery costs?How do we support self-service learning and user generated content?How do we foster knowledge worker skills?What are the new metrics?What does this mean for our current learning systems?How do we aggregate content ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - CommentsFacebook Enterprise Application
If you've not seen this, there's a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something I've been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network.WorkBook combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with existing enterprise security services and information sources. With WorkBook, employees can find and stay in touch with ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 20, 2007 - CommentsFlash Quiz Tools
... activities and games using four simple templates. StudyMate provides an authoring environment that requires no experience with Flash programming, game design, or HTML. Questions and items can also be imported from MS Word, IMS QTI, Respondus, rich-text, and other formats. This makes it possible to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. Other features include an Equation Editor, a spell checker, the ability to include image files and web links, and question/answer randomization ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment 1,199 3 23 Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning ... 25 eLearning Trends 1,820 9 24 Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment 1,199 3 ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... corporate environments, you won't find people making bad kinds of changes to most content. Yes, policies and SOPs need to be more controlled, but most content is not.A lot of this discussion seems to have to do with personal learning - individuals learning about things we are interested in. Most of the corporate learning we support is teaching critical skills to folks, or enabling JIT learning on the job. This feels a little different ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentsHelp - Pace in Industry
... would capture the fact that corporate environments are moving at a faster pace?Update - here's an example that came from one of the comments that shows roughly the kind of thing I'm going for. It shows that while chips are becoming ever more complex (number of gates), the time taken to design them is ever shorter. Further there are more and more chips coming out. Any others?
eLearning Technology - Sunday, November 11, 2007 - CommentsOpenSocial Platform
Well, we finally are starting to hear what Google's anticipated response to the fact that Facebook Platform and Facebook as a Learning Platform. The real beauty of Google's approach is in the word "open." With Facebook you are somewhat forced to make a hard choice about rewiring your application to live seamlessly within the Facebook environment or pushing Facebook users across to your site which is a bit ugly. Further, you face the prospect of having Facebook rework aspects that you are leveraging.So, as I mentioned before, I'm a big believer in leveraging the knowledge of ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - CommentsLMS Selection Process
... corporate environments, but I've also been involved in non-profits, foundations and to a lesser extent education and government. My custom implementation experience is generally with specialized content providers. Most of the time, I'm working with larger organizations who have 2,000+ learners and several different constiuents involved. However, most of this applies fairly well across other kinds of organizations ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, October 18, 2007 - CommentsFacebook Platform
Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented:To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. It's a large, centralized piece of software that is getting creaky with ... reveals many of the features future learning environments (and personal environments in general) will need to have ... environments, perspectives, etc., it's always an interesting data point when he and I are in complete agreement. I also ... mentioned in my other post, it effectively provides an operating environment that knows about:You (your profile, ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - CommentsFacebook as a Learning Platform
... custom functionality that work seamlessly within the Facebook environment. The code runs on a separate server, but the applications interface plays back inside Facebook. Facebook provides an API that gives you access to friends, groups, etc.And it's relatively easy to create these applications.I'm currently engaged with two different clients working on Facebook applications. Why? Well, because the audience is there and we intend to leverage the Facebook platform in order to:Spread virally by asking friends to add the application, notify friends about activityUse groups as the basis for certain kinds of activity (think communication, decision making)Facebook as a Learning PlatformFor the upcoming Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations we wanted to have a way for participants to get to know other participants and hold discussions ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, October 15, 2007 - CommentsPodcast Discussing Learning and Networking with a Blog
It was interesting to listen to beginning portion of the podcast Straight Talk with Bob Phillips where they discuss my article in T&D Learning and Networking with a Blog. From their post:In the opening segment, Aaron and I talk about Tony Karrer's article in T&D magazine, Learning and Networking with a blog. Here is a post on Tony's site that gives some resources that were cut from the final article. We also talked about how his blog has some interesting posts on personal learning environments (PLE's). The other person I mention is Michele Martin at The Bamboo Project. Her ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - CommentsFree Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations
... an exciting opportunity to discuss current trends and innovations in corporate training environments around the world...If you have thoughts or ideas on what would make this a great event, please provide ideas.
eLearning Technology - Sunday, October 7, 2007 - Comments100,000 Edublog Hosted Blogs
Edublogs just announced they are hosting 100,000 Edublogs. In fact we've currently got more like 103,000 blogs, separated over four sites (63K on edublogs.org and 39K spread across the student sites). In September at edublogs.org alone we racked up 268,638 unique visitors, who dropped by 904,053 times enjoying 13,701,840 page views while sucking up almost 500Gig bandwidth.And that's just that one site's blogs.I guess this is probably enough to say that blogging has taken off as a tool for learning in educational environments.
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - CommentsSoftware Upgrade Training and Support
... performed, and then they try the task on their own in a simulated environment. I'm worried that we'll bore people to tears and that they'll mindlessly follow along with the step-by-step directions...and then not retain anything. How would you tackle this? What ideas do you have?What a great question BJ! It's also an incredible example of something good to do in a blog post! I plan to mention this in future presentations. I hope you get some good ideas ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, September 24, 2007 - CommentsBlogging as Part of Classroom Experience
... to answer questions. This is a great way to learn how to do this outside of a class environment.
eLearning Technology - Saturday, September 15, 2007 - CommentsHorizontal Learning
LMS?).No student would use the current so-called learning environments during their worktime or freetime. In 2006 I was ... already being implemented by learners themselves. Call them Personal Learning Environments (PLE) if you want but the ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, August 30, 2007 - CommentsHow Wikipedia Works and Wikis in the Enterprise - HBS
... that transfers to a corporate environment? Andy McAfee: No is the short answer here, simply because (a) how valuable is ... Wikis in conjunction with a class environment, and it's quite natural, especially if you have collaborative ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, July 23, 2007 - CommentsNeeded Skills for New Media
George Siemens post pointed me to Henry Jenkins New media literacies and indirectly to a white paper that provided the following list of needed skills for new media literacy:Play â¬" the capacity to experiment with one's surroundings as a form of problem-solvingPerformance â¬" the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discoverySimulation â¬" the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processesAppropriation â¬" the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media contentMultitasking â¬" the ability to scan one's environment ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - CommentsLeading a Horse to a Fire Hose ...
... the importance of building new learning and work skills - growing personal work and learning environments - etc - should I expect to get some attention? Should I expect to get some change of behavior? Or is this a futile effort that's a small part of the fire hose that is a nice to have in a world of have-to-have only?
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - CommentsRay Sims - Ongoing Series of his PWLE
I never know what kinds of things to link to in my blog posts, but definitely if you've not been checking out Ray Sim's recent posts where he dives into how he uses different tools as part of his PWLE.Search Alert TipsLinkedIndel.icio.usTaking a look at some of his early posts around personal learning and doing environments is also time well spent if you are interested in learning how to learn.I love how Ray translates concepts into practice. He did similar things around informal learning a while ago. Good stuff Ray!
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 11, 2007 - CommentsPLE - PWLE Discussion Contiunes - Corporate vs Personal and IP Rights
This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments ... PLEs are power tools Tom tells us ... I'm on the same page as Cammy Bean about Personal Learning Environments:So all the ... Michelle's wonderful - My Personal Learning Environment or even my Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools are helpful in us finding patterns.Andy Roberts posts - More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments where he juxtaposes ... environment needs to be "set up" imputes a measure of formality that I'm not sure is warranted.What I'm suggesting is ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, June 10, 2007 - CommentsMore Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments
There's some great discussion happening around the issues of control and resulting ownership of work product as we create personal work learning environments.Enterprises that love PLE'sCross battles Downes: is corporate learning corrupt?Stephen DownesWork PLEs internet futures and social relationsJay Cross - Nonsense from StephenBlogging Inside or Outside the Corporate FirewallStephen DownesPersonal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More DiscussionJay Cross - Semantics & the first placePersonal Work and Learning EnvironmentsPLEs are power toolsBe the NodeThe Psychology and Skills ...
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