Particularly in the context of learning? Well, my guess is no engagement = no chance of learning with others or from content. Again, this hinges on my belief that we learn through engagement both with people and content or the myriad of combinations. Many of us learn just fine by ourselves. They are different! Period.

Is social media added to a learning platform the answer to promoting informal and social learning in the enterprise? To address these trends and take advantage of the new capabilities that social computing and social networks can bring to learning, SkillSoft’s Books24×7 division introduced inGenius.

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

So-called best practices and effective techniques are beginning to be identified and understood. This helps identify and organize practices that work and ones that don’t by ensuring new efforts don’t have to reinvent the wheel each time. best practices. best practices. best practices Government 2.0:

On our weekly twitter learning fest, #lrnchat , I regularly identify myself as a learning experience design strategist.  First, I think it is important to stop thinking about content, and start thinking about learning experience.  When you think about creating learning experiences, you are talking about design. 

I think supporting performance is important, and that we don’t do enough with models in formal learning. I’ve never seen that in practice, sad to say. Helping people understand and use models is a powerful form of meta-learning, to me, and a 21st century skill folks will be needing. meta-learning

Some major contenders Computer-Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) and Computer-Supported Collaboration (CSC) CSCW and CSC both promised such systems, but where are the practical results? Tags: Learning From Others Usercentric Big Ideas No current software supports the full process of collaboration. Conference. suffix).

One of the more interesting aspects of the discussions I've had over the past few weeks as I prepare for the free online conference on the future of learning is the perspective on the focus and scope of responsibility of internal learning organizations and external learning/training companies. Please let me know what you think.

After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: Nancy – I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic. What’s the 5 minute and 60 minute learning piece that all knowledge workers should have to go through so they will be better at this?

Design is a craft and takes practice and so does instructional media design. Now you can practice these for free. With the web, learning is free; “quit waiting for the right answer&#. Tags: Informal Learning Not all ideas could make it to the broadcast medium. So why teach it in school as if it were a scary theory?

The first is the idea that social artistry is about " using who you are to open space for learning." Career Clarity Positive Professional Development reflective practiceWhat do I offer and how do I price it? . At one point a thought popped into my head. Basically, set your own price based on the worth of the service. .

Some things I learned about knowledge this past year. About  knowledge management : Codified knowledge (documents, lists, reports, best practices) is effective in organizations that have mostly new staff or high turnover, like a pizza franchise. Organizational learning! Tags: Learning What is the reason for this?

Learn more. This is an excerpt from our recent  Best practices for SharePoint intranets report. Obtain the report to read more about the SharePoint dream team you need, along with 24 other best practices. The post SharePoint best practice 9/25: Make your SharePoint intranet beautiful appeared first on Column Two.

Home Consulting Our Mission The Stakes Our Approach Management Team Offering Comprehension Conversation Collaboration Capitalization Business Cases Blog Articles Collaborative Enterprise Contact Web Design Enterprise 2.0 = Learning 2.0 The philosophy of social learning is in contrast to the traditional Cartesian view of education.

He breaks down the elements and gives enough detail around each pieces that should be enough for most people to understand what's happening when / if they make the shift to more project management practices. This is one of the important ideas that I learn and relearn in project management.

See Part 1: Corporate Learning’s Focus. Inspired by Jay Cross,  Amanda Fenton asks how her Corporate Learning department could better meet the needs of employees. think these are excellent questions and the answers form the basis of addressing how to integrate work and learning in the enterprise. Not any more. Wiki-How ).

I’ve noticed that art schools have used a similar model for years; class (studio) time is for practice & feedback while evenings are for reading. think the education and training fields can learn much from the arts & crafts, who never abandoned the mentor/apprentice model.  Tags: Learning Call it the Fisch Flip.

Painful and demanding practice and hard work By Geoffrey Colvin , senior editor-at-large October 19 2006: 3:14 PM EDT (Fortune Magazine) -- What makes Tiger Woods great? Woods (pictured in 2001) devoted hours to practice and even remade his Swing twice, because thats what it took to get better. Occasional practice does not work.

Learn From the Best. best practices distributed team newsletterSome newsletters that I receive, though ostensibly marketing material, deliver great value. Newsletters can provide even more value when provided to the members of a distributed team. Here are some tips to help your newsletter provide real value for your team. Email.

Growth mindset:  Learn, learn, learn. It is much more important for me to learn things in my classes than it is to get the best grades.”). Implications for Learning. The implications for learning of these two mindsets are fairly obvious the fixed mindset is clearly antithetical to real learning.

I will travelling and speaking for most of this week but will share what I have learned when I get back. Here is what I will be talking about: Keynote: Working Smarter in the Learning Organisation. As complexity increases in the networked economy, we need to integrate learning into the workflow. Communities Informal Learning

If you have ever hankered to read a “real life&# story about an organic community of practice, one free from the business pressures of CoPs manufactured inside of corporations, read this book. Identifying a new practice and refining it.) Access to expertise – learning from experienced practitioners (i.e. United States.

Writing is writing – it takes practice and discipline to write well. Team Wikispeed, where learning really is the work – via @jhagel. At WIKISPEED, however, the team learns almost entirely through hands-on experience. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week.

This session, lead by Nathan Curtis of EightShapes, shares practical techniques that his organization has learned from, taught, and embedded in teams. Just as important, attendees learn to avoid failures Nathan and his team have experienced along the way. Tags: Learning From Others Podcasts Is Interaction Necessary?

We’d love to hear from you if you have been using crowdsourcing tools or approaches extensively enough to have learned useful lessons, and believe you have valuable insights to share from your experience. Please let us know very briefly: - what you have learned. what you have found most useful in your use of crowdsourcing tools.

Darren Sidnick’s Learning & Technology: Communities of Practice (CoPs) with Nancy White Communities of Practice (CoPs) with Nancy White Darren wrote: This is a series of blogs on Communities of Practice (CoP). For me, Communities of Practice take love and attention to get right! doing a bit of writing).

Book Reviews Books Life learning Creativity Deliberate Practice FIRST reading reflection thinkingI enjoy reading, so like many people I have set a goal for myself to read at least 50 books a year for the last couple of years. read 45 last year, you can see my list on GoodReads. Then it’s off to see the next presentation.

Book Reviews Creativity Deliberate Practice Mastery ArtOfLiving Books DeliberatePractice learning Life Work as Art Like Rework (which I reviewed last week ), Ignore Everybody is my kind of book. Written by Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com , it is made up of 40 short essays that each dive into a very specific idea or question.

 I was very pleased to receive a review copy of The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham. Marcia is a Partner at Altimeter Group , founder of the Twitter chat #lrnchat, and writes the Fast Company column “Learn at All Levels.”. Tony and Marcia began with an acknowledgement that social learning has been around for a long time.

It was the good folks at IBM who helped me actually see my own practice and it’s value in the late 90′s and I’m grateful. The practices have blossomed and diversified. I’d love to know what you think are the learnings agendas still in front of us for working in and with communities and networks.

Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks « ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it | Home | “Just do it&# » The Job Hunt: What I Learned By Meredith Farkas | July 9, 2005 Over the past few weeks, I’ve taken some time to reflect on my job search. My stats fall somewhere in between. Score!

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Exceptional examples of mobile projects are now surfacing, allowing other teams to learn from the early adopters. We’re therefore excited to announce the release our new report: Best practices: enterprise mobility (2nd edition). This is an exciting time for enterprise mobility. Read more. Announcements Mobile mobile

A couple of days ago I mentioned to some friends how I use rehearsal in my day-to-day life: Preparing for a presentation, walking through the steps of a plan, practicing a process. learned the importance of rehearsal while in the military: Plan an operation, try it out, refine the plan. Practice practice practice.

attended workshop hosted by Mike Gotta - Organization Next: Bridging the Participation Gap – Networks, Learning, and "Play"   Mike is now Senior Technical Solution Manager for Enterprise Social Software, Cisco. Drew is a Senior Learning Consultant at Deloitte. Informal learning counts for 70% of learning.

In his piece, he writes: For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms—rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Last week I wrote a post in which I opined a bit about Facebook search. Well, no. At least, not yet.

I've recently updated my mental model of how I go about Learning Design, so I thought I'd share. Update: Sep 14 - Lee Kraus posted Learning and Technology: Learning Design about this and asked an interesting question - "Does this apply to both formal and informal learning?" It would be a completely different picture.

The Power of Role-Based e-Learning: designing and moderating online role play is a new book out that talks about simple methods to get powerful learning outcomes from collaborative games.  moderating engaging and authentic role-based e-learning activities. We need more good learning design, and as much help as we can get.

It’s a practical and comprehensive book that’s designed to help individuals and businesses manage their reputations in a world in which the old rules no longer apply, thanks to the advent of the Internet. The final section is about online monitoring of your reputation and managing an online reputation crisis.

Here’s his note : “Check out @nancywhite ‘s Full Circle Associates on Communities of Practice (CoPs). ” Wow, I had not thought about this from the perspective of a PLN (personal learning network) but it sure does work. I know – I posted this already , but Jeff’s note gave it a twist. Jeff added value.

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Information practices in the humanities report confirms disciplinary differences (e.g. But traditional methods, such as citation chaining (83%) and learning from peers and experts (95%) remain the most significant ways of finding resources. The Reinventing research?

They realize that they have a lot to learn and will be refining their methods as they go along. This is an exemplary effort and I am grateful that Yakabod is willing to share their practices with us. plan to check in after a while to see what else they have learned Their flagship product is the Yakabox™ Knowledge Network.

Be a valuable tool for your own ongoing learning and professional development. Write about your experiences and what you're learning from them. Teach people as you learn. Learn something? answering other's blogs is a terrific start - especially Learning Circuits and like forums. Networking 2.0: Should You Blog?

George says that, “Too many aspects of my sensemaking system are manual&# , but I think this is a strength of PKM and other sense-making practices. Tags: Informal Learning PKM Tweet George Siemens calls it information management (what I describe as PKM). specifically use the term information instead of knowledge.

In addition to speaking on mobile design with David Metcal at the Mobile Learning Jam at DevLearn, and with Richard Clark on pragmatic mobile development, I’ve got a contract with Pfeiffer for a mobile learning book.  Flat learning curve, eh? To make it a practical book, however, I need input. Please, let me know. 

It shows both deep knowledge and subtlety of use of Moodle. ( [link] – an open source learning/classroom platform). This captures so much of what we wrote about in Digital Habitats – and lives out an important aspect of communities of practice: reification. Pretty darn impressive. Beautiful work, Joyce!

What’s driving the idea is the recognition that our old approach to learning is broken in so many ways.  There was an intriguing research project done for the Army that recognized that the standard classroom approach is about the worst thing you could do if you were trying to achieve successful learning!

I’ve often said that learning and working are becoming the same thing in our hyper-connected workplaces. As a free-agent there are great opportunities to integrate work and learning and that is by thinking of marketing as education, both for you and your clients. Marketing is the same as Learning & Development. Tweet.

Plus, I guess this is a natural follow on to this week’s rants on Skills for Learning Professionals and Knowledge Workers ( Part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Alan also mentioned Jonathan Finkelstein’s Learning in Real Time (book and web site) and Jon’s mad skills.  Alan shares 5 deadly things. Make it hard to even get inside.

There were differences in interpretation, often based on the different understanding of how end-users/trainees would learn, need to know, and use what they learned. This is often used in Best Practices, for example, that can then be replicated and used throughout an organization. External-Community of Practice/Best Practices.

In a Complex World, Continuous Learning & Simple Truths Prevail by @CharlesJennings. That  no matter how smart you are, you still needed to carry on learning. It also appears they were unaware of another simple truth – that  continuous learning is the only sustainable asset in a world of constant change.

Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks « ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it | Home | “Just do it&# » The Job Hunt: What I Learned By Meredith Farkas | July 9, 2005 Over the past few weeks, I’ve taken some time to reflect on my job search. My stats fall somewhere in between. Score!

On 11 May at Leeds Trinity University College , UK, is the event Reflecting through a digital lens: how can Libraries support learning? Cost £20 (includes lunch). Organised by the Yorkshire Universities Information Skills Group To book the event email Janice Lavigueur at j.lavigueur@leedstrinity.ac.uk events

There is a lot of cross-functional or cross-geography learning that would be missed then. Here is another in a series of session notes for  KM World 2010  and  Enterprise Search Summit 2010. attended the session, 10 Principles for Successful CoPs. have been a member for some time and there are some great discussions.

Just like other management skills, it takes practice; working with virtual staff is not a skill set you pick up overnight. If you’re working with multiple virtual team members, it’s likely that they’ll have different learning and communication styles, making it worthwhile to use different formats. Run a test project.

Having previously reviewed Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham’s The New Social Learning , and Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers , I have now received my copy of Jane Hart’s Social Learning Handbook.  This is largely as an adjunct to formal learning, rather than focusing on social media for formal learning.

BetaLeadership – “Most CEOs of the world at some point long ago delegated disciplined practice and learning – and thus became relatively dumb.” ” Ivan Illich: “Most learning is not the result of instruction. Paul Getty:  ”In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”

It is not the management of anything organizational members have learned through their work experience, but what they create jointly when they are brought together in an environment that supports the use of collective knowledge. using small groups as the unit of learning. It is the "means," but what is being managed are ideas.

Naturally, I was thrilled to hear him tout the principles that I suggest make games such a powerful learning environment: challenge, tight feedback, and large amounts of engaging practice. With compelling stories to illustrate his points, he balanced humor and emotional impact to sell a powerful plea for better learning.

Two memes stuck with me, and the first was “leaving trails” For context, the event featured designers – graphic, industrial, visual – but mostly learning designers. Communities of practice similarly need such evidence. design meta-learning strategyWhich is really the subject of the next meme.

Knowledge in the Wild The International Council for Science defines traditional knowledge as the accumulated learning, skills, and practices maintained by communities with long experience in their environments. Tags: SenseMaking (cognition, learning, KM & CI This situated knowledge is almost always framed.

Tweet Yesterday we hosted a conversation on social learning and working smarter, facilitated by the folks at Citrix and the eLearning Guild. In Jane’s social learning community a few comments arose about the lack of interaction. What tools are you using to create the performance/support and learning communities?

Dave Pollard’s experience with knowledge management shows how important it is to personalize our sense-making and how futile standardized methods and practices can be: So my conclusion this time around was that the centralized stuff we spent so much time and money maintaining was simply not very useful to most practitioners. David Jonassen.

The latest was on 14th August 2012 Building a Community of Practice for sharing information literacy resources openly from Jane Secker. Pedagogy Distance learning Information LiteracyThe report Librarians, Information Literacy and Open Educational Resources: report of a survey has just been published [link].

encourage new business owners, and anyone who is considering expanding into a new area, to conduct some interviews with people already in the field to test their assumptions about what’s involved in starting their practice, especially during the first year or two. How did they learn about you? Gut instinct? Years of experience?

Tweet When I was introduced to Charles Jennings’ C-Curve for learning & development (L&D) I wrote about it in the transition to networked accountability. Charles’ C-Curve is a model in practice, based on his experience as CLO of Reuters. Learning Organization. Best Practices. Good Practices. Internal.

Tweet In a succinct post on the nature of knowledge management in a knowledge-intensive field, Jasmin Fodil looks at how rocket scientists learn. People are already used to residing within a learning organization, and social software will enhance the on-the-ground process that are already so robust. Tags: Learning Work PKM

Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks « Research-phobia | Home | Living under a rock » The “kept-up&# distance learning librarian By Meredith Farkas | July 21, 2005 I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. Use it or lose it.

The Web has given us more ways to connect with others in our learning but many people only see the information overload aspect of our digital society. Engaging others can actually make it easier to learn and not become overwhelmed. Effective learning is the difference between surfing the waves or being drowned by them. Filter.

The initial idea of knowledge management was that an organization’s knowledge needed to be documented and then placed in a database where everyone could access it whenever they needed it - no longer would employees only be able to learn when attending a training class. have also made substantial changes to the third era in this post.

Both of these posts are based on James Paul Gee’s book What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. This first post looks at the learning aspects of knowledge management and knowledge work. I picked up  James Paul Gee ’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.

Someone thought that Harold's Seek-Sense-Share model sounded a lot like Steve Spear 's See-Solve-Learn model (but I can't find reference to it), where the Learn component emphasizes learning by doing. . And the topic of learning bubbled through the conversation as well. That is only one element of PKM. Several

Im already subscribed Enterprise Collaboration: Focus On Improving Practices By Oscar Berg ( @oscarberg ) | Mar 21, 2011 The technology adoption lifecycle is a usable model to gain understanding into the adoption process of a new technology or product within a certain population or culture, such as an organization. comments Useful article?

This September, George Siemens , Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier are hosting another Massively Open Online Course, Change: Education, Learning and Technology. And no matter how you slice it, these always involve learning but we are rarely talking about learning. Interestingly, we rarely talk about learning.

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There’s no shortage of free learning materials available online for both new and experienced freelancers. But if you’re a new freelancer or about to become one, you can easily learn the basics from this e-book. As practicing freelancers know, these things are just as important as business skills. Go Freelance.

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What’s important is that we learn something, meet some people, and enjoy ourselves in the process. &#.And If you’re working in UX or would like to learn more about the field to help with whatever work you are doing, add your name so that you can be kept informed. Tags: Big Ideas Learning From Others

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jul 03 2009 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals Published by Nancy White at 9:44 am under learning , technology stewardship Update: Part 2 and Part 3 are also available. Twittering! Trying.

Where do the problems lie in getting good learning experiences? We need them, as it’s becoming increasingly important to get the important skills really nailed, not just ‘addressed’   It’s not about dumping knowledge on someone, or the other myriad ways learning can be badly designed.  So, look at your system. 

After watching the documentary Gasland my wife Victoria has become incensed about the practice of fracking , as hydraulic fracturing is commonly known. The issue has received global attention, but is also being practised close to home for us near Sydney’s water supplies. An explainer is not “everything you need to know about X.”

Consider the following, a passage that I wrote comparing two different authors’ views on the effect and value of video games: To Prensky, video games are a passion that can lead to positive learning and skills…  For the Bruners, video games are an obsession that lead to destroyed lives. In fact, in many ways they are opposite.

With my focus on engagement in learning, I’ve felt it’s important to address the conative (anxiety, motivation, etc) of learners as well. We need to explicitly address what makes the learning experience valuable to learners. Ask yourself, if and when you’re creating a learning experience: WIIFL.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing a book on mobile learning.  My only previous experience was writing Engaging Learning , where the prose practically exploded from my fingers. Tags: meta-learning mobile This time is different. As a consequence, as the deadline nears (!), I’m feeling a tad stretched!

IDEA2009 had the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners converge on Toronto’s MaRS Convention Center to share the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are converging to affect society. Tags: Learning From Others Podcasts account: iTunes Del.icio.us

My friend, Luis Suarez provided the post, Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work. Luis was, in turn, moved to write by a post from Oscar Berg, Forget about copying best practices. Luis noted that he has been blogging about knowledge management for seven years and has yet to write a post on KM best practices.  Any kind.

[[ socialstrategy:start ]] Practical Participation Trace: » socialstrategy You are here: start » socialstrategy:start Table of Contents Overcoming the Hurdles Internet Access Office Technology Systems and Procedures Policy and Guidance Organisational Culture Technical Skills Leadership and Management 50 Hurdles? Internet Access 1.

major theme in my writing has been our shift to a networked society and what that means in how we work and learn. I’m especially interesting in the fact that working and learning are merging in many contexts. Emergent Practice. Learning. Soft Skills. Work 2.0. Rarefication. Creativity. Structures. Wirearchy. Living.

key understanding that Jay wants to get across to everyone in the workplace learning arena is that it’s not an either/or proposition, but rather how much informal and how much formal learning should we support and who is determining what’s to be done. All learning is a bit of both. Tags: Informal Learning

Three different, interesting takes on social computing: Mike Fisher has analysed various social computing tools into Bloom’s taxonomy of learning objectives – ie which tools fit where according to th level or depth of learning you want to achieve.

For instance, I’m regularly learning with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues (Jay, Jane, Harold, and Charles). They’re looking for best principles , not best practices. meta-learning strategyWhen I was a grad student, a fellow student did an interesting study. You need to look a bit deeper than the surface. Really?

Organizations may think they have taken care of the problem of learning from failure once they’ve put in a lessons learned database. But the research of Cannon and Edmondson indicates that managers greatly underestimate the difficulties that are involved in learning from failure. But these industries are far from the norm.

Or as I tell my sons: the goal of competition is, of course, to win, but your purpose – for training, for competing – should be to learn, to grow. Tags: Deliberate Practice Life Mastery competition …you have already lost. If reaching your destination is all you have to look forward to, what happens when you get there?

This is based on her ongoing research, carried out within open and distance learning universities in Europe. Based on responses, she choose 6 universiies (that seemed to have "good practice") for case studies. Tags: ckvi Pedagogy Distance learning research Information Literacy

I just saw a link by Christy Tucker to a wonderfully funny, but a little too true: On the High Art of Getting Grades Without Learning Anything. And, here are three guidelines around this practice. better practice is to come up and hand me a business card with your email and ask me to mail you a copy of the slides. Cmon already.

When someone is thinking and learning ‘out loud’, e.g. putting their deeper reflections on line via, say, a blog (er, like this one, recursively), they’re allowing you to look at where and how their thinking is going. meta-learning socialWhen they also are leaving a trail of what they think is interesting (e.g.

Her approach to training: This is the way I learned it, this is the way I’m teaching it to you. Tags: Deliberate Practice Life Mastery Work Work as Art The following descriptions are of two personal trainers who provide training to their clients using equipment and methods based on the work of Joseph Pilates.

Over the term, I asked them to read about and practice two kinds of rhetorical skills: traditional -. was thrilled because I had been trying to develop a Community of Practice approach in the course. wanted them to learn from each other, and to get used to learning from colleagues as a way to continue learning in their futures.

Here’s some of what we’ve learned. The good news is that 80 percent of employers actually tell their employees about their monitoring practices. few weeks ago I read this very interesting piece on WebWorkerDaily about the impact of corporate blocking policies on web working employees. So what about monitoring?