The hype around open educational resources (OERs) is growing to the level that web 2.0 inhabited several years ago (I recently posted a short overview of openness in education ). The problem with OERs is that they are too often focused on content. More recently, a few educators have been pushing the concept of openness through open teaching and open accreditation. But, as Brian Lamb notes, “if we live in an era of information abundance, why is the primary drive around OERs the publication of more content? And what other activities around the open education movement might be an ...

Learning happens constantly. The formal education component receives more respect than informal learning. As content and conversations fragment, I doubt existing systems of education will retain their shape. The real opportunity lies in how institutions think about “tying together” the multiple learnings across our daily lives. Canadian Council on Learning introduces the multiple learning domains as “limitless dimensions of learning”. Two approaches are possible to serve as the glue to pull learning together in a manner that can be accredited or evaluated by ...

With the financial world in turmoil, it’s logical for people to turn attention to other fields that are in need of change. Nothing like a crisis to force introspection that should likely be ongoing. Higher Education is often criticized for its bureaucracy. Now that governments and businesses are in “belt tightening” mode, we’ll see pressure on higher ed as well: Higher Ed: Next Bloated Industry to Go? : “Like so many of our great industries and social sectors, higher education has grown huge, bureaucratic, and in many cases bloated (think 24-hour coffee shops in ...

Having just come back from DevLearn (which rocked; my hearty thanks to all participants and organizers), and now engaged in the Corporate Learning Trends conference (free, online), I’m seeing some repeated themes, and interests.  It’s a busy time, since we ‘re deeply engaged in the latter, but some messages are coming through so powerfully that I’ve got to reflect on them. In this time of economic uncertainty or outright fear, one of the resonant themes is ‘how to cope’. Marcia Conner, one of our forward thinkers, is going to be talking about the ...

Among my personal goals for the year were: write something meaningful every day learn to make short videos as easily as making a blog post Hence, this: src="rocks-http://jaycross.com/rocks/poster.jpg" href="http://jaycross.com/rocks/rocks.mov" target="myself" controller="false" autoplay="false" scale="aspect"> If I’m right in foreseeing nuclear winter for training budgets, most of us are going to need to be able to use tech to accomplish our goals without emptying our pockets.

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The above is the one-liner I saw a couple of weeks ago from a gentleman in one of the group forums I'm a member of on LinkedIn. I remember thinking how similar that shout-out was to someone standing on a chair at a live networking event and shouting, "I NEED A JOB!" Would you agree that it's not the smoothest approach? But I also thought, "okay, I'll bite." I clicked through to his profile. I was looking for something specific. I didn't find it. What I was looking for was any evidence of contributions in the community--or any other ...