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... learning, we cannot neglect the personal touch as well. Social learning does not only mean Web2.0, but it means any learning ... those in front of us and the personal relationships we need to make and nurture. Too often I see others who’s ... we find our personal equilibrium.  Mine is not the same as yours is not the same as Joes is not the same as… But we all know when we are personally out of whack. But when we check ourselves and we achieve the correct ...
Engaged Learning - Thursday, August 21, 2008 - CommentsRedefining Education for the 21st Century?
... what education should look like in the era of the first-person interface. Technology has fundamentally transformed society and business, can it do the same to transform education to help us cope with change in the 21st century. In his video on the next 5000 days of the web Kevin Kelly suggests we need to get better at believing in the impossible because if we don’t we will be more unprepared for the future when it arrives ...
Learning Matters! - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - CommentsBottom-up Learning, Design, & Learning
Click picture for Flickr view. Bottom-up learning - e.learning age Bottom-up learning occurs because employees want to be able to perform effectively in their jobs. The exact motivation may vary, from achieving job security to earning more money, gaining recognition or obtaining personal fulfilment, but the route to all these is performing well on the job, and employees know as well as their employers that this depends - to some extent at least - on their acquiring the appropriate knowledge and skills. Is Google Making Our E-Learning Stupid? - The Rapid eLearning Blog ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 08/18/2008
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Official summary of FERPA tags: ferpa, education, privacy, k-12, highered Welcome to AACRAO’s Online FERPA Guide FERPA guide for higher ed, with more detailed explanations of what constitutes directory information vs. personally identifiable information. According to this, email addresses are OK to disclose, which isn’t what I was previously told. tags: ferpa, privacy, education, ...
Experiencing eLearning - Monday, August 18, 2008 - CommentsA job like mine
A job like mine E.learning Age, Â Mar 2008 by Carruth, Jenny Each month e.learning age talks to people who are carving out a career in the industry. This month Jenny Carruth speaks to Jay Cross, CEO of Internet Time Group. “I’ve been doing this for what seems to be forever,” said Jay Cross, when asked how he got into the e-learning industry. As the first person to have used the term “e-learning” on the web, his reply is pretty open-ended. Nevertheless, the e-learning icon can pin-point the beginning of his career to the day in 1976 when a former colleague ...
Internet Time - Saturday, August 16, 2008 - CommentsEnterprise Twitter
... we ask the person closest to us rather than someone likely to have the right answer. Getting blank looks instead of ... told me, “Oh, John X is the person you need to talk with. Let check whether he’s got a minute.” An ... than that. Just as blogs give us all a free, personal printing press to the internet, Twitter provides an instant, ...
Internet Time - Friday, August 15, 2008 - CommentsOctober 15th is Blog Action Day
Blog Action Day this year is October 15th. All you have to do as a blogger to participate is dedicate a post on this one day regarding Poverty.What Can One Person Do?"Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. It's easy to think that there isnâ¬"t much an individual can do. Fortunately this isnâ¬"t the case at all. With activities ranging from advocacy and professional contribution to charity and financing, there is in fact many ways that we can act.You can find a range of resources about poverty, about what the average person can do as well as dozens of post suggestions ...
Discovery Through eLearning - Friday, August 15, 2008 - CommentsOctober 15th is Blog Action Day
Blog Action Day this year is October 15th. All you have to do as a blogger to participate is dedicate a post on this one day regarding Poverty.What Can One Person Do?"Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. It's easy to think that there isnâ¬"t much an individual can do. Fortunately this isnâ¬"t the case at all. With activities ranging from advocacy and professional contribution to charity and financing, there is in fact many ways that we can act.You can find a range of resources about poverty, about what the average person can do as well as dozens of post suggestions ...
Discovery Through eLearning - Friday, August 15, 2008 - CommentsSelf-service education
Are you getting tired of self-service? I actually will not be surprised when I’m given a job aid and scalpel when I show up at the doctors office. Imagine all these people in little rooms with their scalpels being overseen by one person like the self-service checkouts at the Home Depot. In corporate training we’re talking a lot about wikis, blogs, RSS, podcasts, vodcasts, bookmarking, etc. Isn’t this just more work for the learner? * create your own content * assess your own skills * print/save your own certificate * print/save your own materials When will my job will ...
Janet Clarey - Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - CommentsCalling Stephen Potter&
... more books than a person could read in a lifetime, scholars had to sharpen disciplines and publishers define genres, as a bulwark against the information overload of the 16th century. Society was better after that transition than before, even though it took two hundred years to get there. And now weâ¬"re facing a similar challenge, caused again by abundance, and taking it on will again mean altering our historic models for the summa bonum of educated life ...
Internet Time - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - CommentsWorkplace Learning Today: A Daily (Mon-Fri) Newsletter
... topics, including school-based and post-secondary education, learning technologies, personal learning, philosophy of learning, and the politics of the learning industry and government policies. He rarely writes about corporate training, although he is often critical of corporations. We donâ¬"t see ourselves being competitive with Stephenâ¬"s important contributions, but complementary. This is a group effort to provide readers with a daily summary of news, events, commentary, and research on all aspects of workplace learning, including training and development, performance support, job aids, learning technologies, talent management, organizational learning, and adult education ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - CommentsThings Worth Reading
Currently, I have a mess of half-formed ideas, a couple of ugly projects, and more than a little activity in my personal life. I suspect when this phase finishes, I will have another batch of blog posts.In the meantime, I found these in my Google Reader:From Cognitive Edge - a discussion on working together and sharing information across "silos". The mistake a lot of people make is to assume that people want a lot of messy experiential data synthesized into best practice documents and doctrine. As previously mentioned the Iraq war showed the power of fragmented, experience based ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - CommentsCritical Thinking, Course Navigation, & Design
... programming plumbing beneath their online applications. But suppose you're the person on the hook for your company's online expense reporting tool or a start-up planning to build an online music mixer for anyone on the Internet. You'll have to place a bet on which technology is best and which programmers to hire or train. "Even if I were starting from scratch today, I still think I'd bet on JavaScript and Ajax...It's going to be hard to stop the massive momentum we have," Henrikson said ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, August 11, 2008 - CommentsReflections from Sao Paolo
Luiz told me a story about trying to coax a group of professionals to try blogging. He asked everyone to make a blog entry; no one did. He instructed them to take a sheet of paper and write out something interesting that had happened to them. Then he asked them to pass their papers to another person and write a comment or observation on the bottom of ... managers he led for HP in Israel. The first day was a disaster. People were so wrapped up in personal politics that ... entire cities within the city that to untrained eyes have no personality whatsoever. My new friends Barbara and ...
Internet Time - Friday, August 8, 2008 - CommentsRecommendations Needed on a Sensitive Project
... be most useful to that group. We can then train on how to personalize the accounts with this information. + Help each group create custom support materials. + Make sure there is an immediate post-implementation support plan. + Once all groups are implemented and using the tool, come up with a generic training for new users. Use the custom support materials as part of a knowledge library for future reference ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, August 7, 2008 - CommentseLearning on a Global Scale
... listening. I doubt I’m the first person to tackle multi-lingual eLearning. And just maybe this info will be helpful to others who are tasked with researching, selecting, and implementing multi-lingual eLearning.
eLearning Weekly - Thursday, August 7, 2008 - CommentsChanging Skills for the Learning Facilitator
Maker - too often things like this can get too technical too fast. This person will have to keep their mind on the end user and keep things simple Engage and personalize Have a personality and use it Help everyone learn how to use the new technology, why they might (and in some cases should) use it Not give up Face opposition, take a smack in the face, and keep trucking (later they will come back and kiss you) Understand motivation and how people work and why they make decisions Know the world of the company or customer, how they work and how to best suite the environment and opportunities to allow for maximum ease of use and adoption Just some stuff off the top of my head, from experience and gleaning information from other sources (here, here, here) ...
Engaged Learning - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - CommentsGoogle Website Optimizer 101 | Free Tips | Conversion Rate Experts
... the customer to send a personalized note to their friend. You will have access to these notes (privacy policy ... ??Poor-manâ??s eyetrackingâ?? â?? About 5 seconds into each usability test, ask the person what they have looked at so ... advantage of being able to sell to thousands of people at the same time. However, only person-to-person selling will teach ... visitors learn from your site, they definitely learn these top 5 points. 30. Consider all the different types of person who ... called “personas” or “avatars”) for this. A customer archetype is a single person who is used ...
Tony Karrer delicious links - Monday, August 4, 2008 - CommentsMore on elearning 2.0 SOA
... or entire learning networks/LMS. They have all the same privileges of a faculty person or CTO. Also, even within a school LMS, faculty have the option of allowing students to contribute. In addition, there will be a central marketplace where learners (and of course faculty) will be able to upload learning objects and rate learning objects (think Amazon for OER, Commercial and user-generated content). E ...
Tony Karrer delicious links - Monday, August 4, 2008 - CommentsDelicious Upgrade Only Skin Deep
I personally think delicious is a great tool and I often describe it's use in presentations and workshops. It recently went through an upgrade that improved the look and performance. However, it interestingly left out a lot of what I said was missing in my post - Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. for Personal and Group Learning from March 16, 2006. My claim back then was the Yahoo MyWeb has some features that made it better for a lot of corporate users, and while I hate to argue for its use, the fact that two years later after Yahoo acquired del.icio.us ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - CommentsEight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles - ReadWriteWeb
Username Elsewhere? Personal search engine Lijit does a great job of making it easy to associate your account with ... like the following: "Grocery spending: A married person spends 103% more on groceries than a single person. By the way ... elegantly than that, but you get the idea. Similarly, eco-credit card company Brighter Planet tracks your personal ... person and you use 15% green electricity. Improve your profile by telling us about the car you drive and your flights ... infamous) person as each new users avatar. My default profile was graced with a photo of Bill Gates, but other people ...
Tony Karrer delicious links - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - CommentsThirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Plannning
... mobile laptop computing, personal digital assistants (PDAs), videoconferencing, videostreaming, virtual reality, and gaming environments enhance distributed learning” (Crawford et al., 2003, p. 24). For many administrators and faculty members, “how” is the question. While many studies have shown no significant difference when comparing online with traditional courses, applying traditional teaching strategies at a distance often causes frustration (Dasher-Alston & Patton) ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsThe Worst Part of Distance Education " Life as I Know It
... example of this. Personally, I think this would be a wonderful way to learn - using blogs, wikis, instant messaging, and ... mls online education personal reflections pictures Robert S Taylor school musings social software technical support ... education opacs personal reflections pictures planned program Robert S Taylor school musings social ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsRead/WriteWeb: About
Chief Executive Officer of AdaptiveBlue, a smart browsing and personalization company. You can contact Alex at alex@readwriteweb.com. Bernard Lunn is a Feature Writer for ReadWriteWeb and has been part of the writing team since July 2007. Bernard Lunn is a New York based software/media entrepreneur who co-founded IQ Resource and iYogi. You can contact Bernard at bernard@readwriteweb.com. Frederic Lardinois is a Writer for ReadWriteWeb, joining the team in June 2008 ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsSecond Life Education Wiki - SimTeach
... assignments: Avatars and Personal Identity, Building in a Virtual World, Compare to Snow Crash This "Handout for ... source History Personal tools Log in / create account if ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Commentselearningpapers
Personal learning environments Todayâ??s learning management systems can be perceived as islands â ... by Sandra Schaffert, Wolf Hilzensauer On the way towards Personal Learning Environments: Seven crucial aspects ... Personal Learning Environments by Eleonora Pantò , Laura Gonella Didactic architectures and ... Somekh, Amir Winer, Ariel Sarid Self-Regulated Personalized Learning (SRPL): Developing iClassâ??s pedagogical ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments's Tips for eLearners - Part IV
... attending class in person doesn't mean you should overlook opportunities to stay in touch with your fellow students. If your school's online system supports chat or discussion groups, make sure you participate. If you have access to class e-mail, take a chance to introduce yourself to the rest of the class.Don't be afraid to reach out for help if you get stumped. I've found my fellow students to be friendly and helpful ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments''s Productivity | OEDb
Configure what each person can see in the private chat room. Chat history is available. Students: Conduct remote group study sessions. Professors: Hold remote help sessions conducted by yourself or your teaching assistant(s). Alternatives: Zoho Chat, Meebo (above). Zoho Creator.Use Zoho Creator to create database-driven applications from scratch by defining form fields, by copying and modifying existing applications, or by importing data ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsInside IDOL Blog
... might give your telephone to anyone that asks, online or in person. You dont really know who this person is, but you need to ... ! Imagine having different voice messages for each specified telephone number - personalizing your voice mail for your boss ... from and leave a short audio message. What makes this different from other sites is the fact that a real person will ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsDiscovery Through eLearning
... and 70 per cent are under 60.”[vi]Presbycusis is the most common form of hearing loss as a person ages. Sound ... internal computers (brains).We almost never see another person that looks just like us, why do we assume they will think like ... ://www.flickr.com/apps/badge/badge_iframe.gne?zg_bg_color=+zg_bg_color+&zg_person_id=8160476%40N02; document.write(); ...
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