Currently sitting and listening to Will Richardson’s keynote address at UPEI for the New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes conference. You can follow live at EdTechTalk and I’ve added some photos (more to follow).
Will touched on themes such as “the web as classroom” and “who are the role models for using MySpace and Facebook”. He [...]
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I’m just getting ready to catch my early morning flight back to the East Coast, with an overall positive impression from my experiences at the Brandon Hall Conference this past week. I’ll have some time to reflect and will post my notes in the next few days. In the meantime. take a look at the [...]
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Edublogger Dave Cormier is behind the New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Institute, a participatory learning event for professionals, which starts this coming Saturday morning at 9:30 am in the Wanda Wyatt Hall on the University of PEI campus.
Will Richardson will be the keynote speaker. Both the Saturday session of the Institute and the [...]
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Eric Sauvé, of Tomoye, presented on informal learning in the enterprise. Tomoye’s clients include the US Army. Initial questions from the audience were:
How do you prove that informal learning has value?
How do get management’s buy-in?
How do you ensure accuracy of content?
How do you track legal issues & HR units/credits?
Eric views informal learning as something that [...]
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Stephen is addressing the conference with his opening keynote this morning. I’m sitting way back in the audience of about 500 people:
This conference is an excellent mix of presenters, vendors and participants. I’ve found the level of conversation more in-depth than larger conferences I’ve attended. Stephen has set up a back channel with an [...]
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Tom Crawford opened the conference today with ” Innovations Outside of Learning: How external forces are changing our world”. It was a great way to get the ideas flowing and people thinking about the last 100 years of technology and learning. Tom listed his top 10 nine technologies of the past five years that [...]
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I’m in Santa Clara for the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference. Last night we went to Santa Cruz for seafood on the pier, with the sound of sea lions around us. It was too dark to get a photo of these interesting animals, but I thought this sign was kind of neat. We did [...]
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Fewer people believe that “content is king” in the online learning world. However, many e-learning business models are built on some aspect of content creation. Community and context are the two critical factors in developing e-learning environments. For example:
Courses online; Community = your cohort; Context = a relevant (to you) credential
Performance support; Community = your [...]
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From the Creative Class blog is part of a WSJ article on telecommuting:
“When companies allow employees to work remotely or from home, they are explicitly communicating to them that ‘I trust you to be dedicated to the accomplishment of the work, even if I’m not able to observe you doing it,’ ” says Jack Wiley, [...]
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Today is the day, aarh! [oops, it's tomorrow, but what the heck, I'm starting a day early ]
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