Twitter FavesI’ve been following Mark Federman’s work since he published McLuhan for Managers with Derick deKerckhove. Mark recently gave a presentation for TVO (video download) on No Educator Left Behind that ties together much of his work over the past few years. These include papers like Why Johnny and Janey Can’t Read and Why Mr. and [...]
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According to Clark Quinn in this eLearn Article: There is one role for pre-tests, and that is in the realm of allowing students to test out of a course. Learners should be allowed to skip the content they already know if they can demonstrate competency. This is to the great benefit of the learner. But [...]
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An interesting post made by Rob Wilkins, is a confirmatory data point of what I’m seeing in the corporate learning sector: This morning the CLC (Corporate Leadership Council) released the results of a survey that asked CEOs which areas were to suffer the most in response to the crisis. L&D [learning & development] came out [...]
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Fred Cavazza raises an interesting point on the difference between social and community platforms. “Community” platforms allow members to fully engage in conversations, while “Social” platforms, like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, are more passive. In the comments, Fred says that blogs are definitely social, as they allow authors to block and filter comments. Graphic by [...]
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Yesterday we presented our session at Corporate Learning Trends and everything that could go wrong, did. Plan A failed so we switched to Plan B which didn’t work so we made up Plan C that limped along for the hour. Jane was stuck in traffic, the technology did not work the way it did the [...]
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Today, at 8:00 PM GMT we’ll be introducing our new venture, TogetherLearn. Details are on the LearnTrends collaborative site. This venture is a natural progression of my work over the past decade, after retiring as a military training development officer in 1998, with a freshly minted MEd in hand. At that time, I was reading [...]
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I’ve been blogging at AcademicInfo for the past month writing posts more focused on higher education or the issues that I think may be of interest to this audience. Karyn Romeis is also writing a series of book reviews. Drop by if you’re interested and feel free to suggest topics of interest. I intend to [...]
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Sessions start tomorrow (Monday): Come to Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 if you want to: participate in a stridently unaffiliated event (no Platinum sponsors here) discuss things you don’t find at commercial conferences (we’re indie) take part in an event that’s 100% free (because the web scales) join sessions anywhere with net access (this [...]
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With the election over and Bill C-61 dying with the last Parliament, the government is once again looking at making changes to copyright law. In A Copyright Call to Arms published in the Globe and Mail this week, the authors call for consultation from all sides of this complex issue: Ministers Clement and Moore have [...]
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The Work Literacy online learning event is over and many of the participants are now at DevLearn08 and I might surmise that they’re connecting with some folks they met during the course. Our learning community event spanned six weeks and had 766 registered users at the end. When Michele, Tony and I initially discussed the [...]
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