Re-entry

June 11, 2010

This morning before breakfast I browsed the net with a large monitor and lightening-fast connection. I was soon immersed in captivating video, beautiful images, exciting news-bytes, and irresistible links.  Half an hour disappeared down a rat hole. Was it flow or was it continuous partial attention?

Yesterday evening I had [...]

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Workscape evolution

May 7, 2010

This morning Jane Hart posted this 5-stage model of the evolution of workplace learning in an organization.

I’ve re-worked the model to show:

my domain is the workscape (the merger of work and learning, the learning ecosystem)
overarching issue is who controls the curriculum
learning is a mix of formal and informal, not one or the other

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April 2010 Great ones

May 1, 2010

Best from Informal Learning Flow
April 1, 2010 to April 30, 2010

From Social Media to Social Strategy- HarvardBusiness.org, April 1, 2010
The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel- OReilly Radar, April 13, 2010
Collaboration and Cooperation- Half an Hour, April 12, 2010
Manual for Civilization- The Long Now Blog, April 6, 2010
The Glass Box [...]

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iPad jobs

April 27, 2010

Probably the first iPad in Switzerland:

High unemployment? Bah!
The iPad has created these new job categories, according to Jennifer Jacobson, the witty publicist at Retrovo.
The iPad au pair or “iPair”
Are you tired of “baby sitting” your iPad? After all, it does require a significant amount of attention. You can’t just set it down on the counter [...]

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All you ever wanted to know about informal learning

April 27, 2010

YouTube of Jay’s UMBC ISD Now! webinar.
Warning: This sucker is 64 minutes long. It captures my current thinking about informal learning.

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UMBC’s “ISD now!”

April 20, 2010

Several hundred people joined my webinar on informal learning today. I’d tell you what I said, but live-blogger Sumeet Moghe in Bangalore has already done a better job of describing what I said than I would:

Link
Downloads from UMBC Webinar, April 20, 2010
slides &  white paper

Need more Jay?
Tomorrow, Dave Wilkins and I will be talking [...]

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49% off

April 18, 2010

Amazon has dropped the price of Informal Learning.

Buy it from Amazon

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Learning Without Borders

April 16, 2010

Learning Without Borders
In a pre-webcast discussion with Jay Cross yesterday we tackled how organizations steward informal learning; Jay will ask HCI members to bring a relevant business problem to the webcast and walk us through ways to focus on the demand side (what learners need) to facilitate powerful informal learning. Jay named [...]

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2.0 is a philosophy, not a technology

April 10, 2010

Internet Time Alliance spent a couple of days last week putting the 2.0 into a tedious proposal for a large, forward-facing multinational corporation.
Among our recommendations were:

Informal         Live webcasts
Informal         Recorded webinars
Informal         Video conferencing
Informal         Workshops
Informal         Audio/ podcasts
Informal         Learnshop
Informal         Case Studies
Informal         Non-formal video
Informal         Discussion group/ forum
Informal         SharePoint
Informal         RSS Feeds
Informal         Communities of practice
Informal         Community e-news
Informal         Guerilla video (Flip cams)
Informal         [...]

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Informal learning: the real deal. Free.

April 3, 2010

Informal Learning has been getting a lot of buzz lately.
Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management” without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Read this scathing commentary by Peter Casebow, Jane Hart, and Harold Jarche. It’s time to clear the air.
Informal Learning: Five Ways to Do More [...]

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