Archive for the 'Industry talk' category
Weblogg-Ed: A nice summer reading list.
Dave’s Whiteboard: The more senses you activate, the better it is for getting learning and memory happen.
The Relationship Economy …: Which mole are you whacking through your business practices? Jay Deragon has an interesting riff off of Seth Godin’s observations about improving your business model via the low-hanging fruit.
Janet Clarey: If you can’t beat social media, maybe you can just join it.
Avant Game: Why alternate reality games don’t work.
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The Associated Press recently decided that they were going to refuse to be quoted on blogs anymore, insisting that even some 35 word or less quotes were copyright violations. It’s wrong and illegal, they say, to quote them directly without paying them $2.50 per word.
As conversations about current events move online, what the AP seems likely to have done is to just cut themselves out of the link economy. Jeff Jarvis suggests that this could be the end of them.
It’s easy to say that they have every right to control their content as strictly as they want to, fair use be hanged. Though in this information age, that might not be the most ultimately self-interested way to look at the question. Consider the Recording Industry Association of America, the RIAA.
Lots of good conversations going on out there …
Janet Clarey: Even learning professionals sometimes get a little weary during the learning process.
eLearning Technology: The search for quick wins is likely to continue to define early adoption of performance support tools like wikis.
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When I was a kid, Mom explained to me that Elvis’ music and dance moves had once been considered scandalous.
Elvis!? Elvis impersonators officiate weddings. His music has joined that category of cultural artifact that’s now considered suitable for all ages. If he were performing on American Idol today, he would offend exactly none of the show’s faithful audience. For mainstream America, Elvis is establishment now.
Which is exactly how it should be in a culture that’s responsive to change.
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Exploring the edublogs once again …
Harold Jarche: Language learning expands without the costly infrastructure.
Janet Clarey: The edupunk way.
E-Learning Curve: A look at e-learning ecosystems and the failure of ADDIE, because knowledge delivery channels aren’t cognitively neutral.
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Out on the blogs today …
Big Dog, Little Dog: Management in formation, how the workplace is changing with mobile and elearning.
Training Day: Millenial generation recruitment madness.
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It’s the era of the microtrend market and it seems that all anyone can talk about in marketing is how to go viral:
Rand Fishkin is a popular speaker at search engine optimization conferences – not so much for his trademark yellow sneakers – but for his direct and uncompromising advocacy of social media marketing … and he insists the quickest way to kill a viral campaign is by giving it to your public relations department.
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Educators and the deep, blue digital …
The Learning Circuits Blog: The question for May is if there’s a difference between instructional design for digital immigrants vs. digital natives.
Karyn’s erratic learning journey: Responding to the question for May, Karyn says no and anyway, you have to do a fresh needs assessment for each instructional design project.
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In a comment about Clay Shirky’s cognitive surplus concept by Heresiarch (appended to a Making Light post, via FastForwardBlog, via Harold Jarche*), we read:
… 1) Shirky’s claim isn’t that everyone will suddenly devote every leisure hour to writing a novel/inventing cold fusion–only that, all of a sudden, it will be much easier to do so. People might still only choose to use 1% more of their leisure time in a productive fashion, but that’s still 1% improvement, and small percentages add up to a lot of productivity when you’re talking millions of people.
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We were recently able to talk with both Elliott Masie and Dr. Conrad Gottfredson about informal learning, multichannel publishing and performance support for the Xyleme podcast series.
Challenge and Need
Gottfredson said that it was the job of learning professionals to support learners throughout their journey, and has identified five key moments of need where they require support. He started by listing the two traditional points of need; when learning new information and when building on past learning. He then added three additional stages where learners often need on-demand information and assistance; applying and remembering what they’ve learned, troubleshooting and resolving problems, and when facing change.
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