Archive for July, 2008
eLearning Technology: Brain 2.0.
In the Middle of the Curve: Please, stop throwing stuff at me. (via)
Campus Technology: Web 2.0 and secondary orality.
Clive on Learning: What exactly is blended learning, anyway?
Janet Clarey: Stealth learning, for when you’re trapped with nothing else to do.
Karl Kapp: Learning to surf.
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You’ve heard the old engineering joke, right?
There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multi-million dollar machines.
They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who has solved so many of their problems in the past.
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Blog talk never stops …
Janet Clarey: Balancing innovation and execution.
Seth Godin: Three laws of great graphs. (via)
Connectivism: Patience and elearning in Africa.
Smashing Magazine: From the wayback, but raising usability concerns about web applications is always in order.
Weblogg-ed: A little bit of considered Twitter hate centered on good questions about whether it’s actually helping drive conversation and learning or just managing to be a distraction.
eLearning Slam: Two thought-provoking posts, one on cost justifying an LMS and another on rapid course content creation.
So … you’re implementing a learning content management system? Not the easiest of projects these days.
In most organizations, the embryonic stage of learning content management implementation is bound to face the usual host of change management issues. From reusable learning object skeptics to sophisticated learning producers used to a different design and development mode, here are a few characteristics you’ll want to look for in your core implementation team members. Encouraging these traits can overcome obstacles before they do you in:
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Your choices in social and CRM technology are important, as Jay Deragon notes, because customers’ expectations are increasingly set by the social media paradigm. How will you make them?
There’s a definite ‘feel’ that social media and web 2.0 relations tend to have, so it’s important that the implementation team have people on board who understand the communication culture that customers are increasingly insisting on.
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