Archive for March, 2008
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” - The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We’re coming to the end of another economic bubble, this time in the financial sector. The folks who underwrite all our commercial activity got infected with the madness of crowds and tried to have themselves a post-fact economy. Didn’t work out so well. Home prices and consumer confidence reflect the reality, the post-post-fact economy, the hard truths that are reflected in economic forecasts and consumer billing statements everywhere.
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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Thoughts on how social networks benefit learning and a range of cognitive skills.
eClippings: Teaching through stories can make for a memorable, effective and engaging learning experience.
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No.
It’d be nice to give you better news, but the right answer is no.
You can’t always rely on user-generated content being good, promoting e-learning, or even being there at all. You can put up a great Web 2.0 tool, like a Wiki, and get nothing out of it but blank web pages.
Getting good, sustained, useful interactivity comes from setting a content baseline, having goals, and facilitating useful communication among users. Your users and employees don’t want to write for its own sake, they want to write to accomplish something.
Are they having a useful conversation or creating a reference they’re going to want to come back and use? Can they relate it to their every day tasks in a way that’s helpful, as opposed to adding extra, unwanted chores? Will they be able to reuse their content elsewhere?
Technology gets you learning tools. Engaged users give you learning communities. I think we all know which is more useful.
It all starts with the people, not the software.
They talk, we read …
Janet Clarey: Making e-learning engaging. — The learning professionals’ list of 6 dangerous things to do.
eLearning Technology: What’s the scope of a learning professional’s responsibility?
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