I had seen this paper ( Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems ) before, but Jay Cross's take on the implications of the paper in LMS, we hardly knew ye is interesting: LMS create a walled garden in an era when walls are falling down. Furthermore, how can you manage serendipitous learning that is inherently unmanageable? MORE >>

40% of business is ad hoc. That is according to a 2004 report from McKinsey, entitled Making a Market in Knowledge. McKinsey calls doing things on the fly “Tacit business interactions”. Dion Hinchcliffe has a great article detailing the MORE >>

Rough First Day. There seems to be a growing chorus questioning our Western school system. The conversation has been strong amongst bloggers, voices like Brian Alger or Robert Paterson on the value of homework or Chris Corrigan on MORE >>

A piece just out in the New York Times covers the current array of music collaborative filtering services (though it doesn't call them that), including Pandora and Last.FM. I've written about these numerous times in my books and blog MORE >>

Now that I posted about Better Questions for Learning Professionals , I've been receiving questions via email from a variety of people. That's great! like getting interesting questions. Some of them I just respond with an email. But, I'm going to try to make a practice of creating blog posts around some of the questions. What about other Standards? MORE >>