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Time after time in my recent workshops on web-enabled informal learning, I found myself using my own sites as examples of learning technologies. For example, we’d walk through the Informal Learning blog to look at an RSS feed, an internal search engine, scanning the 100 most recent posts, a Creative Commons license, and so on. I began showing things like my research tools page, which has always been public but was hidden in plain sight. Previously hard-to-find articles on my wiki have morphed into leave-behind reference material, for example, Learning in Business or ...
Internet Time - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Commentse-Learning 2.0: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfile
Social Networking: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfileI have been fine-tuning a survey tool to gauge the TechnoProfile of the target learning audience in social learning, networking, collaboration and Learning 2.0 environments. I call it "Learner TechnoProfile." The survey design is based on my discoveries from social learning sessions, (ASTD handoout) client projects and my research "in helping learners apply their learning" or Micro-Learning Impacts in social networking context. I also used the ideas presented by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff Growndswell, (2008). My goal is ...
Ray Jimenez - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 07/01/2008
... summary of research on how diversity affects online learning, focusing especially on Hispanics. Includes differences in communication due to culture, including differences between different Hispanic populations (i.e., Mexico isn’t the same as Guatemala). Also notes that Hispanics are often on the wrong side of the digital divide and may have less prior experience with technology, therefore exhibiting fewer characteristics of the net generation ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - CommentsOpen Engineering Research
The norm for engineering R&D is to keep information 100% secret. Jean-Claude Bradley, who teaches at Drexel University, thinks differently ... and openly. Before you reject this idea as "hogwash", you should review this information: Open Notebook Science Jon Udell podcast interview of Professor Bradley(or) Presentation & commentary by Professor Bradley (via Flash) You may wish to link to Jean-Claude Bradley's blog / podcast site ...
Behavioral Modeling and Simulation
The National Research Council recently came out with a rather lengthy book on modeling individual through group level behaviors and cultural variables. This is a very big topic in the Government right now. One of their chapters was on "Games" and how they could contribute as a tool for social and organizational modeling. Specifically, they were looking at MMOGs. While I don't recommend the entire book for the casually-interested (the book is geared primarely for the ... a National Research Council).One interesting "prediction" was that...The biggest change coming in the next few ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Monday, June 30, 2008 - CommentsBehavioral Modeling and Simulation
The National Research Council recently came out with a rather lengthy book on modeling individual through group level behaviors and cultural variables. This is a very big topic in the Government right now. One of their chapters was on "Games" and how they could contribute as a tool for social and organizational modeling. Specifically, they were looking at MMOGs. While I don't recommend the entire book for the casually-interested (the book is geared primarely for the ... a National Research Council).One interesting "prediction" was that...The biggest change coming in the next few ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Monday, June 30, 2008 - Comments"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Or "Are We Dumbing Our Online Learners?"
Is Google Making Us Stupid?"Or my related question is, "are we dumbing our online learners?"Nick CarrThis is a MUST reading if you are into e-Learning and web-based training or any technology- assisted work.I had to PRINT the entire article because the article requires contemplation and reflection. Scholars examined computer logs documenting the behavior of visitors to two popular research sites, one operated by the British Library and one by a U.K. educational consortium, that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. They found that people ...
Ray Jimenez - Friday, June 27, 2008 - CommentsFour effective ways of Content Creation
Content is always the key for a site success. To gather information for the site content there, are four main ways you can adopt to create contents. Create content via research Browse through public libraries, online reference sites, other blogs, wikis and gather as much as possible information related to the site content you are creating. Make sure you organize and make your content interesting. Create content via PLR contents PLR or public label rights content are everywhere in the web, just google to look for them. Do you research based on the content in PLR and construct your ...
eLearning Community 2.0 - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/26/2008
JALN: Does one size fit all? Exploring Asynchronous learning in a multicultural environment Small-scale study of cultural differences in an asynchronous learning environment, focusing on high and low context cultures. Includes a comparison of student perceptions of online learning based on their cultural background. High and low context learners both saw advantages to online learning, but their reasons differ. tags: diversity, e-learning, highered, asynchronous, research, context, communication Because computer mediated communications is language (specifically, written word) dependant, ...
Experiencing eLearning - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsIt's the method, not the medium
In a reply to my posting E-learning: An oxymoron?, which discussed Jakob Nielsen's rather negative views on the efficacy of e-learning, Tom Werner of Brandon-Hall brought some interesting research to my attention: The research (Sitzmann et al., 2006, a meta-analysis of 96 studies) refutes Nielsen's point. It's the instructional method, not the delivery medium, that makes the difference. When web-based instruction and classroom instruction that have similar methods (feedback, practice, etc.) are compared, there's little or no difference in outcomes. This is interesting to me, ...
Clive on Learning - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/25/2008
Social networks ‘teaching tech skills’ - vnunet.com Brief summary of research on the educational benefits of sites like MySpace and Facebook for high schoolers. Students self-report learning 21st century skills, although the study doesn’t attempt to actually measure any of that learning. tags: socialnetworking, education, 21stcenturyskills, research, k-12 When asked what they learn by using social networking sites, the students listed ‘technology skills’, followed by ‘creativity’, being ‘open to new or diverse views’ and ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsRaymond Always Teaches Me Something New -- Nuclear Fusion Project
Raymond, 17, my son, always teaches me something new.He just self-published with Lulu.com his book on Amateur Nuclear Fusion.You can download a free PDF copy - allow more download time, it's 80 Meg.Raymond teaches me:> Tenacity of research and discovery in spite all odds.After 1,000 hours and $4,500 and lots of eBay and Craig's list hours, he succeededwith his project.> Reach for more - now he is trying to raise $20,000 from donors to improvefurther on his research.More about the family. http://duarte4.blogspot.com/2007/11/about-franny-raymond-marisu-and-frances.htmlRay Jimenez, ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - Comments"Humans are suckers for scale" - The Art of Simplexity
... that "everything that seems simple is actually complex and vice versa." It is only now that through research, scientists are discovering what goes on in small complex events. I think we miss the opportunity in helping learners learn because we oftentimes think scale is more complex. The learner and how to impact his/her performance is probably a more complex undertaking than conducting a lecture to 1,000 people.Ray Jimenez, PhD www ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsOver-rated - The Myth of Multitasking
Christine Rosen writes on The Myth of Multitasking, The New Atlantis, on the different studies debunking the idea that we learn best by multi-tasking."Discussing his research on National Public Radio recently, Poldrack warned, "We have to be aware that there is a cost to the way that our society is changing, that humans are not built to work this way. We're really built to focus. And when we sort of force ourselves to multitask, we're driving ourselves to perhaps be less ... with theories and research debating on the issues.I have always suspected that multi-tasking is over-rated. I still ...
Ray Jimenez - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - CommentsNeed any advice or support?
... career - strategy, specification, design, development, implementation, evaluation, research and so on - I get involved in all sorts of projects, but if you want to find out more about me, take a look at my activity and consultancy pages. So, if you do have something I can help you with, email me at ...
Jane Knight - Monday, June 23, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/22/2008
Donald Clark Plan B: Immersive games beats classroom in maths 18-week study comparing performance of high school students who learned math in a traditional classroom or with a game. Both classroom and game learning resulted in improvement in skills, but students who played the game scored significantly higher. tags: games, education, math, research, k-12 According to the teachers, the games were effective teaching and learning tools because they (a) were experiential in nature, (b) offered an alternative way of teaching and learning, (c) gave the students reasons to learn mathematics ...
Experiencing eLearning - Sunday, June 22, 2008 - CommentsTrainers Learning from Learners, Furthering Their Skills
Mike Sachoff writes about a research at University of Minnesota that says social networking is found to be educational.Corporate trainers can learn from this approach. Listening to students, studying their "techno-profiles", and taking advantage of their skills."The study contradicted research from Pew in 2005 that said there was a "digital divide" among low-income students. That study found that Internet usage of teens from families earning $30,000 or less was limited to 73 percent, which is 21 percent below what the University of Minnesota research found.""Students are developing a ...
Ray Jimenez - Sunday, June 22, 2008 - CommentsSocial Networking, Performance Problems, Multitasking, & Research
Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - c/net "What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st century skills we want them to develop to be successful today," Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the school's College of Education and Human Development, said in a release Friday. Water woes, trouble, and training - Dave's Whiteboard A one-page guide to performance problem analysis ... . Information Overload Research Group news wrapup - emaildashboard Wow. We publicly launched the Information Overload Research ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Friday, June 20, 2008 - CommentsSoapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that don't support things like access to their content
... you researched Open Access Journals and found that model to be wanting? Have you explored using a Creative Commons ... insurmountable issues there? Why? Why? Why? Faculty are paid by their schools. Usually research is part of their job description - so they aren't out of pocket in terms of the cost of the research. Usually the "peers" who review articles, aren't paid or they're paid very little. So then we take this paid for research, add some peer review and ... terms of budgets, openness of research and so on? Tell your institutions to start contacting the academics on the ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsEngineering Data Visualization
Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials (more SL posts). However, as much as SL gathered media attention, the bigger interest for most of us was the discipline of engineering simulation and data visualization. While conducting some research recently, I became aware of an excellent visualization seminar series from Duke University. Like most research ... one link led to another ... which led to another, etc. Thus, here are the fruits of my labor with brief descriptions ...
"Understanding individual human mobility patterns" (nature article)
... link) Cautionary Note: I'd like to read this article but don't really want to drop $32 for the privilege. Maybe it'd be really cool if the authors, Marta C. González, César A. Hidalgo and Albert-László Barabási could explain why they want to publish such great research behind such a walled garden. Maybe it'd be cool if nature could explain why it needs $32 freaking dollars from me for an electronic version of an article that must have already been paid for by their subscribers and for which the marginal cost is ZERO. So that $32 is pure profit. Honestly, this is ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsmLearning Lessons Learned
... that you research mLearning a bit and then see it as another tool in your toolbox. Use it when it is the best solution for ... mLearning applications, decide early on if you need to track usage in your LMS. If so, you’ll need to research ...
eLearning Weekly - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsThe Kaizen Way - One Small Step Can Change Your Life
I just read The Kaizen Way by Robery Maurer, PhD. It talks about making change happen in small steps. Behavior change only happens in small ways. This is how to deal with the natural tendencies of people to resist change. Maurer has done a lot of research in this area.What struck me is the explanation that biologically, human beings do change in comfortable small steps.According to Maurer:Ask small questionsThink small thoughtsTake small actionsSolve small problems"Small ... design and systems.In my research on Micro-Learning Impacts, http://trainingpayback.com/downloads.html,I discovered ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsNet Gen Hype talk for the cloistered bunch
... hype (Prensky) over scholarly research (Knowles, Ramsden, and Mezirow) about Net Gen. Mark Nichols highlights the ... research. No more apologies. What I write in 2008 will not be crap in 2012 I hope. And what was written by ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - CommentsObjection #9: They Aren't Technical
... digging. I did some research by interviewing our customers - the ones that would call into our Support. What I found is that they were correct, they didn’t know computers. But they did know the internet - overwhelmingly. They used it often at home and at work. Most of them had high-speed access at home. They all searched for information on Google. Many knew of (and even used) Web 2.0 tools already ...
Engaged Learning - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/11/2008
... exploring. tags: education, k-12, motivation, assessment Researchers have found three consistent effects of using ⬠and especially, emphasizing the importance of ⬠letter or number grades: Grades tend to reduce studentsâ¬" interest in the learning itself… Grades tend to reduce studentsâ¬" preference for challenging tasks… Grades tend to reduce the quality of studentsâ¬" thinking… ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsSkimming Strategy
Skim. He cites a recent study by University College London that looked at behavior of visitors to two research sites. Carr states:They found that people using the sites exhibited "a form of skimming activity," hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they'd already visited. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would "bounce" out to another site ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsWikis for Improving Productivity
... else? A: They did a lot of research. No information about clients like SSN stored on the wiki. Security levels of PBwiki ... the research while you’re on the phone with a client so they can answer customer questions ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsBalancing innovations and implementation
... research it, look for people using it in the workplace, talk to them about how they are using it and how they ‘did it ... time I “implement” (research & write). And what about writing? What is my output to you? I’ve gone more to an analysis-in-process mode, beta research, of working. Time is of the essence. This means I can work through ... ) Hard-to-get research >>> Adopt new process >>> Blog, Wiki, Twitter, Social Network, ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsTraining, Innovation, Learning Landscape, Interviews, Outsourcing, & Education
... for U.S. students as they might appear in the documentary. As an academic, I have been researching engineering education and have taught many graduates of Indian, Chinese, and American universities. It can take longer for Indians and Chinese to develop crucial real-world skills that come more easily for some Americans. Yes, U.S. teens work part-time, socialize, and party. But the independence and social skills they develop give them a big advantage when they join the workforce ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, June 9, 2008 - Comments
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