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I'm a big fan of questions (see Better Questions for Learning Professionals) and as I'm preparing a workshop (Revolution in Workplace Learning) one of the things I stumbled upon is what seems to be a great new question:Given that eLearning 2.0 (web 2.0, wikis, blogs, social networking, etc.) represents new ways of supporting learning and work ... as a learning professional, what are the new questions that I need to ask as part of analysis?There must be new questions that we need to ask in order to figure out if and how eLearning 2.0 approaches apply to given performance improvement ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - CommentsLearning Professionals Leaders
... existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? So, yes, learning professionals must ... know as:Wikis: How to edit, how to read, how to link toRSS Feeds: What are they, how do I read one, once I have a reader ... about wikis until wikipedia came along. Nobody cared about RSS readers until information overload made them a necessity.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - CommentsInstruction eLearning 2.0 and Quality
On my post Quick Wins, I received some questions around use of Web 2.0 in the workplace (really they relate to eLearning 2.0). My quick example of one strategy that I've seen repeated successfully in several organizations:implement a small Wiki that has performance support materials that goes along with your eLearning on that new software applicationat first have it only editable by the authorsthen open it up to edit the FAQ and Common Issue pages by your help deskand then open up editing to end-usersand to more pages.The comments are interesting to see and discuss:Can anyone tell me ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsQuick Wins
Wiki that has performance support materials that goes along with your eLearning on that new software applicationat first have it only editable by the authorsthen open it up to edit the FAQ and Common Issue pages by your help deskand then open up editing to end-usersand to more pages.How does this fit into the grand strategy? You don't know? Who cares? It's the right thing to do! I'd argue that it's a good quick-win ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 23, 2008 - CommentsRevolution in Workplace Learning
... in Workplace Learning Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, social bookmarking, and RSS readers are revolutionizing formal and informal workplace learning. GCASTD is bringing nationally-known expert Dr. Tony Karrer to Greater Cincinnati to present a fun, engaging, fast-paced workshop that will allow you to use these "eLearning 2.0" methods and tools for yourself and your organization ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsLearning Organizations, eLearning 2.0 and Edupunk
... particular situation, but in a few cases I think the answers are fairly well known.For Wiki-like capabilities, it likely ... inside the firewall. So no problem if their Wiki is tied to the LMS. Just don't make me login to get to it. Allow ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, June 7, 2008 - CommentsDissertation Wiki
... consternation of my rather conservative university, I am submitting the dissertation in the form of a wiki (although - strictly speaking - is it really a wiki if I don't open it up to the community to co-author, which of course I can't do in this instance).First, I can't imagine trying to do a dissertation wiki. The issues with getting it into a format ready ... you grief with their agendas). So, if they provide comments via the Wiki doesn't that make a lot of sense. The alternative is emailing around a document. Why is that so different?In fact, wouldn't it be safer to have it as a Wiki ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, May 17, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
Learning Landscape - Using Wiki in Education - How do students learn in a world where traditional assessments of ... -Portal.com 52. Innovate: Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom 53. Online Schooling Grows, Setting Off a Debate ... (Techlearning blog) 63. Personal Learning Environments Wiki - JITT 64. The Wales-Wide Web | Personal Learning Environments 65. Innovate: Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way 66.
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, you can try to improve those percentages through:Incentives or requirements (students must blog - it's ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsSocial Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results
I saw a post by David Warlick - Reaching Out With Your Conference where he suggests that conference organizers should:Consider a social network for your conference. Although I remain skeptical about social networks, social networking is essential, and a few conferences have made brilliant use of them.Give presenters a wiki page to spread out their session descriptions, post presentation commercials, and generate discussion through the commenting feature. Give exhibitors a wiki page to spread out their description and to add special offers, schedules of booth presentations, and codes ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - CommentsSocial Learning Objects - Flash Cards
... much more like Wiki Course Authoring.In other words, my expectation is to have many easy to use, niche authoring tools that let's me create targeted interventions that I can compose together into an overall learning experience.Social Learning ObjectsOne of the most powerful capabilities is how easy it is to grab existing content and modify it for your purposes. This is something we've wanted to do for a long time in learning, but it's always been hard ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - CommentsLearning Responsibility
... the discussion forumsjargon busters' corners (some form of wiki - although it sometimes doesn't to let the audience know that that's what it is!)The content of these spaces is outside of the scope of the learning professional - although you might provide a starter for 10 to get the ball rolling, but providing the space for this interaction, actively promoting user ownership of the learning process and contribution to the learning content is part and parcel of the provider's responsibility ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 10, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students ... / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools ... experience from Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary and particularly my use of the course wiki as the ... IBM26,000 registered blogs.20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users.No anonymous users.DogEar ⬠Social BookmarkingBluePages ... you know what gets put onto a Wiki is okay to distribute?Moderation - On many Wiki software packages you can ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsFirst Thoughts After ASTD Sessions
... challenging. Generally people were familiar with what a Wiki was, but few had ever edited a Wiki page or seen it done ... examples of where they'd like to use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking as I anticipated. I thought they would be ... good.Good examples from the audiences. Intuit ⬠Wiki for customers to discuss tax issues. Worried ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - CommentsWiki Course Authoring
In my Ten Predictions for eLearning for 2008, I said -Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more common for easy authoring.Not sure if he saw my post, but I was just reminded by Tim Seager from Xerceo about their Prescribe tool that provides:Full Wiki, RSS functionality that is SCORM conformant for tracking and managing competencies.He also pointed me to a video that shows the tool in action. However, this video may be the worst video I've ever seen in terms of making me want ... using a Wiki for authoring...A Wiki should make course authoring extremely easy and even easier to make updates. It ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
... with none winning huge shares of the marketplace. Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more common for easy ... really don't care that much about. Luckily a few will also add in more community and wiki capabilities.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
2.0, but interestingly the discussion has been more of how to fit SCORM on top of alternative tools such as Wikis rather ... some eyes.It will be harder and harder to find any software getting installed locallyYep.We will start to see Wikis ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsConference Session Breakout
Update: 12/19/2007. There has been great discussion in the comments. I wanted to provide a bit more context for this.The session will be workforce learning professionals (an ASTD audience). They will range greatly in terms of the kinds of organizations, their experience.I'm trying to get them to think about the question "How might you use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Collaboration Tools in your organization?"I have a list of about 30 ideas, but I think it's useful to think about your organization, your specific context and come up with ideas for where these ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - CommentsCommunities / Social Networking and LMS Merger
... picture:...think certification training with links to discussion forums or a Wiki or relevant files in a shared file repository...He also pointed me to a Gartner quote:Enterprise social software will be the biggest new workplace technology success story of this decade.This certainly helps us understand why you might want to have someone like KP's sales and marketing to help you sell community software into the enterprise ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 6, 2007 - CommentsAha Moments in 2007
... all pure service. And this experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more (Incredibly Cool! Vision of ... similar programs for reference materials. Wikis are way better even if the end-users don't edit.I had a very interesting ... a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis, Blogs and were embarking on Second Life. Someone ... a wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well. And I'm sure it could be better.Social networks through my blog ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentsCisco - Enterprise 2.0
I don't know how I missed this, but thanks to Bill Ives for covering it on the FastForward blog -More Web 2.0 Stories, Part One: Cisco Goes All Out on Enterprise 2.0 points us to:Mike Gotta - Cisco: Learning Internally Before Delivering Externally and Money's Cisco's display of strength[Martin] De Beer a year ago set up an internal wiki called I-Zone that has so far generated 400 business ideas. "Better still," he says, "another 10,000 people have added to those ideas." His team measures which notions draw the most activity and cherry-picks a handful to unveil at Cisco's quarterly ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
Innovations 814 8 5 Facebook as a Learning Platform 754 3 40 Introduction to Wikis, Blogs ... Summary 1,147 2 28 Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... during the presentation. My wife thinks that's "hilarious."Social Bookmarking and Wikis and Blogs are a form of social ... same thing can be true with social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc. Any shared content leads to meeting people interested ... blog to blog to wiki to person) and coming back to a particular node in that string?That's a great question. It's a bit ... attract people.Suggestion anyone?How can you put policies/procedures on WIKIs when I thought the nature of them is that anyone can edit? You wouldn't want everyone changing policies, right?You can control who can do what on many wikis.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentsFacebook Platform
... fairly common. In fact, LMS, Elgg, Flickr, del.icio.us, Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Groups, Amazon, hmmm, the list gets long quickly. Pretty much everything I would ever do that would associate me with other people. It's pretty much the same issue that's been discussed before in terms of currently having Too Many Social Networks?and Multiple Social Networks. However, in this case, I almost see it more form the opportunity side of things ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - CommentsHelp Needed - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation
As I recently announced, I'm helping George Siemens to organize Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations.When you go to the conference page via the link above, you can see that it's a big wiki. People are already in putting in their names, ideas, etc.There's also a link to the To Do page. Currently, this page lists some tasks that I'm sure I could figure out how to do, but I'm hoping that some reader might be willing to take on...Add .vcf files next to each session to ... for editing the Wiki Blog tag? "CLTI" has been suggested. Add a page that might show what bloggers are writing ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - CommentsFree Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations
I'm helping George Siemens to organize a free, online conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations, Nov. 15 - 20, 2007. The conference will be held fully online (with live presentations and asynchronous discussions). There's an exceptional group of speakers/discussion leaders including:David SnowdenJay CrossRebecca StromeyerRichard StraubClark QuinnDonald H. TaylorJanet ClareyDavid WilsonBill BruckGeorge Siemens, andTony Karrer :)Conference details are still coming together. Stay tuned to the Wiki for details and go to the registration page to register and sign up for ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, October 7, 2007 - CommentsIntroduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS
As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs?Social B ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - CommentsLearning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes)
... to focus on where and how it should be used in your organization. IBM, well-known for fostering blogs and Wikis, has established guidelines that provide a good model:http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html Common Questions and Issues around BloggingThere are a few questions that commonly come up around blogging:What should I write about? The best advice here is to write about what interests you. By being interested, you will be interesting ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 4, 2007 - CommentsHorizontal Learning
... for your personal learning?â¬ý. Surprise. No hands.Quite true.Social technologies are different. Blogs and wikis are already being implemented by learners themselves. Call them Personal Learning Environments (PLE) if you want but the key issue here is that they are based on user-centric design.I'm not sure what he means by "they are based on user-centric design" but the idea is right. If we are providing an LMS and thinking we are providing a good learning support mechanism, I think we are deluding ourselves ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, August 30, 2007 - CommentsHow Wikipedia Works and Wikis in the Enterprise - HBS
... the use of Wikis in the enterprise. A couple of things jumped out at me:Sean Silverthorne: Is Wikipedia a good model ... encyclopedia? But an encyclopedia is only one of the things you can build with wiki technology.This is a somewhat strange answer. In my experience, Wikis often start (and sometimes end) as an easier-to-use replacement for simple web publishing (an ... hand-craft web pages and go through a painful posting process. The new way is to use a Wiki and just click the edit ... : Have you used wikis yourself? McAfee: I can give you a couple of examples because I try to use wikis in a fair amount ...
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