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The learning and information industry world pre-surfed for your reading entertainment.
Learning Circuits Blog: The big question for February is when, if and how much your project needs instructional design, and what do we mean by that, anyway?
Learning Trends: The MASIE Center is hosting a presidential learning perspectives project and they want you (yes, you!) to head on over to talk about where you think learning fits, or could fit, into the 2008 presidential campaign.
iLibrarian: 10 web design principles that flow naturally and usefully from the premise that a good design is a design that’s easy to use.
eLearn Magazine: There’s only a fine line between advertising and education.
Will at Work Learning: Is a technology for measuring social interactions useful as a learning tool?
apophenia: An exploration of the broken academic publishing model looks at the business and knowledge economy effects of keeping broadly useful information hidden away in silos.
Informal Learning Blog: If you’re making business decisions solely based on traditional ROI evaluations, Jay Cross says you might as well use a a ouija board. — Some informative video hits from the Corporate University Exchange and the Learning Technology 2008 conference.
Content Matters: How are users remixing your content, and how could you? The article covers an information industry innovation conference panel where the talkcentered on systems of approaching content repurposing.
Really Strategies Blog: How the Financial Accounting Standards Board went about using XML to standardize documentation for the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
blog of proximal development: More on using blogs to develop reflective learning communities of peer learners and how that suggests a different management style for educators.
T+D Blog: Some musings on the future of publishing as it relates to the way people have changed where they go for information.
Content Nation: A new YouTube channel started by Britain’s royal family offers an object lesson in reaching people where they are, instead of where you would like them to be.
Slacktivist: Venturing a little further afield, an interesting discussion veering off a guess about knowledge gaps in the chain of command. The larger the organization, the more it requires specialized skill sets. This short post is a useful starting point for a thought exercise on how well your organization keeps communication channels open across professional disciplines.
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