http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2012/10/29/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-take-charge-of-their-own-learning/ This is a great article on Jane Hart’s Learning in the Social Workplace which champions the idea of employees having a Learning Portfolio outside of the parameters of the records kept by employers. Not only is the article interesting, I think it would be a great source to use in an instructional design plan like … Continue reading »
» 6 Mobile Learning Trends That Grew in 2012 » Bottom Line Performance
» 6 Mobile Learning Trends That Grew in 2012 » Bottom Line Performance. Really interesting info on learning for fast-paced, mobile lives. Continue reading »
Evaluation & Assessment in Business Environments
Evaluation & Assessment in Business Environments This is an interesting site with a terrible name, and this specific page discuss and provides examples for evaluations and feedback for learning programs within business settings using the Kirkpatrick levels. Most examples of evaluation are of the informal kind which matches well with our corporate PLE group’s design plan. Continue reading »
Trends for training, including PLE
Trends for training, including PLE This article has some interesting information about the growth of PLEs in corporate and training environments. One of the things I found most provoking was this statement, “…the highest quality social learning environments are differentiated by the continued involvement of facilitators and instructors.” Though I totally believe this is … Continue reading »
Everything I know about online teaching and learning is wrong
Reblogged from Ed Tech Notes: As I think about the MOOC, and how best to harness it for an academic setting and for perpetuating and sharing knowledge across the web, I realize that everything I know about instructional design is wrong. The world has turned upside down in a short year, and my discipline has … Continue reading »
NPR this morning – The Future Of ‘Short Attention Span Theater’
Favorite quote from the story - ”A friend of mine actually referred to this recently as, this is the culture of narrative deprivation.” http://www.npr.org/2012/10/26/163649283/the-future-of-short-attention-span-theater Continue reading »
Calling all teens: Become a data detective
Reblogged from TED Blog: Just by living our plugged-in lives, each of us is producing a constant stream of data. Little snippets are left behind of what we search, what we buy, where we go, what we tweet … This endless flow of numbers is referred to as “big data,” data sets so large that … Continue reading »