A friend asked about online repositories of photos that can be used for academic presentations and I mentioned several sources. I realized after sending the list that many others may not know about…
The survey results from the togetherLearn Chief Learning Officer survey show that 77% of respondents feel that people in their organization are not growing fast enough to keep up with the…
Weekly summary of interesting items I’ve found on Twitter:
Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind (a must read) “facts learned by rote & at a younger age bypass a person’s critical &…
Dave Cormier and I are offering a bi-lingual (French/English) open online course on emerging technologies for learning starting Oct. 12. The course is part of a grant from OSIWA and a…
Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009 is in full swing. The Daily is experiencing a bit of a delay as Stephen’s website (and OLDaily) are recovering from a rather significant attack. The…
Google has been busy this week:
Chrome Frame is a service that runs Chrome directly in Internet Explorer. The announcement provides more detail. It’s Google’s way of letting Microsoft know that…
As more of our social and work life moves online there is a growing demand for community managers. Betrand Duperrin discusses the differences between community managers and organizational managers…
Messages spread much quicker than they used to…but satire still reigns supreme as a means of creating artifacts for sharing cultural humour. Yo Kanye, I’mma let you have one of the best memes of…
I’m pleased to announce our third annual LearnTrends online (and free) conference on corporate learning, to be held November 17-19, 2009.
Tony Karrer has more detailed information on his…
I am a strong proponent in advocating for universities to change. But, universities are systems. You can’t alter one aspect without creating a ripple effect of unintended consequences. As I read…
Networked Learning 2010 conference is hosting a series of online “hot seats” over the next few months. These online sessions are free to attend, but registration is required.
Details and schedule…
Anthony Poncier (in French) covers the eight challenges of management in the virtual era, which I’ve loosely translated:
Just picked up my copy of Jay Cross’ latest book, Work Smarter, which sells through Lulu for a reasonable $19.99. As Jay says, this is not a traditional book. It’s an unbook and not meant to be…
Writing If TV Ads for Free, Seth Godin looks at the business and says that the reason there was so much talk about advertising instead of just doing it was because TV ads are expensive. Not all…
A weekly compilation of the interesting things I’ve found on Twitter:
via @1ernesto1 “Dear teachers, we trust you with the children but not the Internet. Yours truly, THE ADMINISTRATION.”
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Britannica is getting sloppy with their blog postings. Most posts – even ones I disagree with – are usually fairly well thoughtout. Then, they post this: The Future World of Work: Flexible and…
Forget multitasking. The real challenge many people face in work productivity is coping with distractions. I find it rather easy to ignore activities I ought to be doing with sites like YouTube,…
Dave Cormier offers an insightful (and touching) post on how identity and memory are preserved online. He compares the passing of a colleague (last year) and his brother (20 years ago) and how…
For most of the late 80’s and into early 2000, innovation on the desktop seemed slow or even non-existent. Microsoft dominated the personal computer experience. That has changed. Between Apple,…
Networks serve as a useful model to describe electricity grids, business activity, the internet, spread of diseases, and even obesity. Caution is warranted, however, in over emphasizing networks. In…
Lofty title perhaps, but a topic that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the last year + since our excellent colleague, Lee Baber died of lung cancer. A shining light that woman… and one that…
“How it Works” is a 5 minute video by IBM Research that describes the changing nature of the way we work. There’s not much “new” but it is well-presented and I think would be useful as an opener…
Location and immediacy are two big trends developing in part to mobile devices – constant connectivity enables us to receive information in context – i.e. location…and microblogging produces a…
With CCK09 now underway, I’m having a bit of trouble keeping up with posts and reflections of learners. We encourage individuals to set up blogs (or use Moodle, SecondLife, whatever else)…and…
A while back I wrote about innovation and learning and especially how the recommendation by Scott Anthony to love the low end, makes a lot of sense for business and learning professionals. “The…
Information rich, and attention poor addresses a frustration many of us feel: there’s too much! it’s all going too fast! I agree with the author that attention is the attribute in greatest demand…
Multitasking has gotten bad publicity recently. I personally don’t think I multitask – I task switch. Some people can task switch rapidly. Others prefer to focus on one element at a time. However,…
I’m frequently negative on Google (largely because in a few year’s time, Google will likely have a similar lock-in in many of its services/markets to what Microsoft had at its peak). However, the …
John Hagel’s Labour Day manifesto calls for institutions to change and embrace the “passionate creativity” of workers.
Twentieth century institutions are not succeeding in the twenty-first…
Design of software and design of learning share similar attributes. I’d go so far as to say that instructional design would benefit from considering how software design has changed over the last…
John Hagel talks about Passionate Creatives:
Many of us have suppressed our passions in an attempt to fit in and integrate ourselves into a world that expected stability, predictability and…
No company in the world has access to more data and more data processing power than Google. Once data has been sucked into Google Giant Vacuum Cache, it is ripe for analysis. After a decade of…
Many institutions are slow to react to technology. Systemic inefficiencies trail new opportunities and technological affordances. For example, somewhere in the past at an unnamed institution, I…
From the Twitter stream this past week:
How to Work Learning In: What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? How do we account for the difference? @jaycross
Niall Sclater summarizes with anti/pro-learning management system rhetoric (I’m proud to say that I’ve contributed to the rhetoric: LMS: Wrong place to start elearning and Learning or…
Stephen Downes (in addition to hurling the odd grenade my way) consistently demonstrates the ability to provide innovative and critical commentary on concepts that many people accept on the surface….
I found a recent HBR article on The Big Shift by Hagel & Brown via Betrand Duperrin, who provides his own comments in French (and in English). The key point of the HBR article is that Return…
We’ve been running wikis in our department at U of Manitoba for three years. The project is very much grassroots – we installed mediawiki and began experimenting. As a result, numerous faculty…
I’ve worked with quite a few non-profit associations and been a member of several non-profit associations. I’ve also let many of my memberships expire without renewal. In many cases I’ve felt that I…
We have a tag – ite09
Well… things are firming up, we have a start date and confirmed courses. I’m going to be teaching a twelve week course as the leader of the french cohort of professors and…
In the midst of all of the “uproar” over the President’s planned speech to school kids on Tuesday, I keep thinking about what all of this says about schools, about what they are for, and about the…
I learned a lot on Twitter this past week:
Resilience focuses less on preventing failure than on enabling rapid recovery following failure. Cognitive Edge
The corporate war for talent…
We’re about a year into the “Recession” while some “experts” say it’s over and others say it started long ago and will finish far into the future. I think it’s pretty spikey with good news and bad…
Data visualization serves a grunt cognition role: patterns and connections are revealed in an image that might take hours (or days) to discover otherwise. For example - a tag cloud is a quick…
The quality (authenticity?) of video conferencing has improved significantly over the last several years. I deliver video conference presentations to conferences or organizations fairly regularly….
(Some) Universities are trying to unlock the online education model. Many fail. Global Campus is the most recent. The problem in this instance is not with the online environment, but with the…
I am, once again, on a visualization kick. Something has to give in our ability to manage information. We have limits to our cognitive capacity. As a result, we will have to look for new methods to…
The web has been quite effective at breaking down content elements from coherent frameworks to fragmented pieces. This causes confusion and frustration for many (learners in particular can be…
A free report (registration required) on how companies are benefiting from web 2.0:
We found that successful companies not only tightly integrate Web 2.0 technologies with the work flows of…
