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Neil Movold

Key social learning resources: Part 1 Learning in the Social Workplace - 0 views

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Social Learning E-Learning

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  • Social learning has become the latest trending concept in the learning world.
  • the freedom to act and cooperate with others.
  • “One current theme in the workplace and education circles is to “blend” social with the formal and structured. But social learning is not a bolted-on component of our formal educational and training programs. It is a sea change. It will disrupt institutions built upon the technology of  the printing press – all communication enterprises, including education. Yes, we have always learned and worked socially, but we have never had the power of ridiculously easy group-forming or almost zero-cost duplication of our words and images.”
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  • “As personal, working and learning tools are merging, more and more are “doing their own thing” in order to address their own learning and performance purposes, so we could also refer to this as  the consumerisation of learning.”
  • Neil Movold on 16 Oct 11
     
    This article first appeared in TrainingZone on 7 September 2011, but is reproduced here for those who don't have a TZ account. During social learning month, Jane Hart will be providing some weekly articles curating some key resources about social learning. 1. Social learning has become the latest trending concept in the learning world. Although there have been, and there will be, many articles providing a definition of what social learning is all about, I think this article by Dennis Callahan sums it up, and makes it quite clear - social learning is like gravity - it's just there all the time.
Neil Movold

Transforming the Workplace: Critical Skills and Learning Methods for the Successful 21s... - 0 views

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Social Learning eLearning market research

shared by Neil Movold on 17 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The fading ranks of middle management have lost their edge, thanks to revolutions in both technology and globalization. Indeed, the latest wave of technology advances—cloud computing, advanced mobile applications and devices, and rapidly expanding social networks to name a few—have greatly eased access to knowledge work. Nowhere is this change seen more dramatically than with the rapidly ascending workforce in high-growth markets outside the United States. Business writer Seth Godin remarks ominously, “If you're the average person out there doing average work, there's going to be someone else out there doing the exact same thing as you, but cheaper.” The game has shifted to a far more competitive, globally-connected field of play, requiring individuals to differentiate themselves in authentic, compelling ways like never before. Godin concludes, “If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.”
  • How We Will Learn: Technology-Enabled Informal LearningWhen we talk about fostering agility, curiosity and continuous learning, we’re fortunate because today we have a host of Web-based technologies (including social, mobile, video, games, and personalized portals) that can serve as perfect tools to support the self-directed learner.By utilizing technology-enabled informal learning resources, collaborative learners can easily share and exchange knowledge, and self-directed learners can continuously teach themselves. These tools allow us to gain and share knowledge when, where and how we want it.Technology-enabled informal learning (that is, technology-based learning that takes place outside a formal classroom environment) also makes sense for organizations because we know that people learn in a variety of ways, and they usually like to learn on their own terms. This insight is derived from Howard Gardner, the influential educational thinker, who has argued that all of us have multiple intelligences. Adjusting and adapting to this cognitive norm, Gardner explains, will generally result in greater skill development and sharper problem solving.
  • According to ASTD’s Learning Executive’s Confidence Index for the fourth quarter of 2011, almost 55% of learning executives expect an increase in the use of informal learning and Web 2.0 tools in their organizations over the next 6 months.
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  • According to Nucleus Research, the average sales person spends 3 to 5 hours per week searching for information across five corporate systems, leaving two out of every three searches feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information they must process. Recent research from the University of Texas concludes that a mere 10% increase in information accessibility results in a 14.4% increase in sales.
  • It’s these passionate, self-directed learners who will help drive the 21st century workforce transformation that our global economy requires.
  • The Self-Directed Learner Is an Inspired LearnerSelf-directed learners are intrinsically motivated. They understand that their passion for learning is fundamentally connected to their ability to differentiate themselves and succeed in the workplace. They know where they need to get smarter to add even more value to their organizations and to advance their careers. They take responsibility for their own learning because they are passionate, inspired and curious.
  • Neil Movold on 17 Feb 13
     
    "There are many explanations for today's uncertain economy. But Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University has advanced an analysis that's starting to resonate. In a recent article, Stiglitz says that our problem is "rooted in the kinds of jobs we have, the kind we need, and the kind we're losing, and rooted as well in the kind of workers we want, and the kind we don't know what to do with." To advance our economy, Stiglitz believes that wrenching, fundamental change is required - no less dramatic than the shifts experienced by an earlier generation during the Great Depression. While Stiglitz and I work in different worlds, I see evidence in all types of organizations that we need to better prepare, train, and inspire successful self-directed learners to meet today's challenges. As I see it, there are two big questions to consider. First, what are the critical 21st century skills that the workforce of tomorrow needs to develop and master today? Secondly, how can we improve our learning methods to enable the self-directed learner to thrive in this new environment?"
Neil Movold

Social Learning Value Explained - 0 views

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Learning Trends Social Learning Learning Technology Collaborative Learning

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  • Neil Movold on 15 Feb 12
     
    Do you find that your employer is resistant to incorporating social learning tools to enhance the business?  Maybe, we just need to communicate the value better. First of all, let's get on the same page with what 'social learning' even means. Wikipedia defines social learning as:  learning that takes place at a wider scale than individual or group learning, up to a societal scale, through social interaction between peers.
Neil Movold

Harold Jarche » Social Learning, Complexity and the Enterprise - 0 views

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Social Learning

shared by Neil Movold on 17 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • There is a growing demand for the ability to connect to others. It is with each other that we can make sense, and this is social. Organizations, in order to function, need to encourage social exchanges and social learning due to faster rates of business and technological changes. Social experience is adaptive by nature and a social learning mindset enables better feedback on environmental changes back to the organization.
  • The Internet has fundamentally changed how we communicate on a scale as large as the printing press or the advent of written language.
  • Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. Notice how most value in today’s marketplace is intangible, with Google’s multi- billion dollar valuation an example of value in non-tangible processes that could be deflated with the development of a better search algorithm. Non-physical assets comprise about 80 percent of the value of Standard & Poor’s 500 US companies in leading industries.
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  • A collective, social learning approach, on the other hand, takes the perspective that learning and work happen as groups and how the group is connected (the network) is more important than any individual node within it.
  • The manner in which we prepare people for work is based on the Taylorist perspective that there is only one way to do a job and that the person doing the work needs to conform to job requirements [F.W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911]. Individual training, the core of corporate learning and development, is based on the premise that jobs are constant and those who fill them are interchangeable.
  • Individual learning in organizations is basically irrelevant because work is almost never done by one person.
  • Social learning is how groups work and share knowledge to become better practitioners.
  • “a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority, based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results, enabled by interconnected people and technology”.
  • Neil Movold on 17 Oct 11
     
    There is a growing demand for the ability to connect to others. It is with each other that we can make sense, and this is social. Organizations, in order to function, need to encourage social exchanges and social learning due to faster rates of business and technological changes. Social experience is adaptive by nature and a social learning mindset enables better feedback on environmental changes back to the organization.
Neil Movold

What is the best social learning platform? - 0 views

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Social Learning

shared by Neil Movold on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Social methods and technologies mesh much better with independent learning, where the student is at the center of the learning experience (learning on their own as opposed to be being taught). They leverage a ring of social, academic, and motivational influences on their way to the goal of knowledge acquisition.
  • Neil Movold on 25 Oct 11
     
    Social methods and technologies mesh much better with independent learning, where the student is at the center of the learning experience (learning on their own as opposed to be being taught). They leverage a ring of social, academic, and motivational influences on their way to the goal of knowledge acquisition.
Neil Movold

Social Learning doesn't mean what you think it does! Learning in the Social Workplace - 0 views

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Social Learning

shared by Neil Movold on 17 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • “One current theme in the workplace and education circles is to “blend” social with the formal and structured. But social learning is not a bolted-on component of our formal educational and training programs. It is a sea change. It will disrupt institutions built upon the technology of  the printing press – all communication enterprises, including education. Yes, we have always learned and worked socially, but we have never had the power of ridiculously easy group-forming or almost zero-cost duplication of our words and images.”
  • “Social Business” is not about technology, or about “corporate culture.” It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating. A new perspective is changing how we think about society, politics, interpersonal relationships, science, government and business. New approaches are emerging. Learning and self-expression are exploding. Values are changing. Leadership is changing. The economy is changing. Change itself is changing — it is accelerating and becoming the norm.”
  • “Social Learning ” is not about technology, or about “corporate culture”. It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating.”
  • Neil Movold on 17 Oct 11
     
    "Social Business" is not about technology, or about "corporate culture." It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating. A new perspective is changing how we think about society, politics, interpersonal relationships, science, government and business. New approaches are emerging. Learning and self-expression are exploding. Values are changing. Leadership is changing. The economy is changing. Change itself is changing - it is accelerating and becoming the norm."
Neil Movold

From the e-learning to the social learning - 0 views

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Social Learning

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  • Neil Movold on 06 Dec 12
     
    "The EU definition of e-learning integrates social learning: « E-learning is the use of emerging Internet technologies, in order to improve learning quality, on one hand by enabling access to resources and services, and on the other hand by distance communication and collaboration »"
Neil Movold

MeshMarketing 2012: Juno Winner David Usher on Creativity - 0 views

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creativity

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  • Neil Movold on 10 Nov 12
     
    "For Usher, creativity is not something a lucky few are born with. Instead, it's a skill that takes hard work and discipline to develop and hone. According to the 46-year-old, "Creativity is not a science. But it's also not magic, either. It's a learnable skill, and anyone can learn to be more creative." Learning how to be creative, however, takes time and practice, and to that effect, Usher offered several tips to attendees to help get them started on the path to being more creative. Related Reading Technology | Building a World of Sound and Shapes Technology | To All My Independent Artists According to Usher, the greatest obstacle to being creative is a combination of fear and resistance. As we grow up, we learn the rules and limits that govern our lives. That is, the codes of love, life, work, and law become intrinsic to how we function as a human being, and we quickly learn to love those rules, because they bring about predictable and dependable outcomes. After all, it's as Usher says, "When I'm driving a car, I love the fact that you will stop at a red light." Real-life needs rules to function properly and effectively, but being creative, by its very nature, entails stepping out of one's comfort zone and embracing potentially disastrous outcomes. "
Neil Movold

How gamification technology helps students learn - 0 views

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gamification Social Learning Collaborative Learning

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  • Neil Movold on 19 Jul 12
     
    Learning can be fun when you make a game out of it. That premise underlies the decision of an online learning platform to use game mechanics to engage college students. It works by motivating students to join, participate, contribute and share their successes.
Neil Movold

How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus - 0 views

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Critical Thinking Sensemaking Social Learning Collaborative Learning Insight

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  • You can think of attention as the gateway to thinking. Without it, other aspects of thinking, namely, perception, memory, language, learning, creativity, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making are greatly diminished or can’t occur at all.
  • In fact, studies have shown that reading uninterrupted text results in faster completion and better understanding, recall, and learning than those who read text filled with hyperlinks and ads.
  • Research shows that, for example, video games and other screen media improve visual-spatial capabilities, increase attentional ability, reaction times, and the capacity to identify details among clutter. Also, rather than making children stupid, it may just be making them different. For example, the ubiquitous use of Internet search engines is causing children to become less adept at remembering things and more skilled at remembering where to find things. Given the ease with which information can be find these days, it only stands to reason that knowing where to look is becoming more important for children than actually knowing something. Not having to retain information in our brain may allow it to engage in more “higher-order” processing such as contemplation, critical thinking, and problem solving.
  • Neil Movold on 06 Dec 12
     
    "Thinking. The capacity to reflect, reason, and draw conclusions based on our experiences, knowledge, and insights. It's what makes us human and has enabled us to communicate, create, build, advance, and become civilized. Thinking encompasses so many aspects of who our children are and what they do, from observing, learning, remembering, questioning, and judging to innovating, arguing, deciding, and acting."
Neil Movold

Inviting Interaction by Jane Bozarth - Social Learning - 0 views

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Social Learning

shared by Neil Movold on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • “So much learning is informal and unconscious; often learners don’t think of it as ‘learning something’ but as ‘solving a problem.’”
  • The crux of using social media in any endeavor, as Gina Schreck has said, is, “Social media invites and allows interaction from others. How are you inviting that interaction?“ The popularity of social media tools means that sooner, rather than later, those of us in the field will need to examine what this means for us. Among other things, as noted by Taleo’s Tom Stone, use of social media tools is an excellent means of making learning more transparent. As he says, “It’s captured, searchable, and has much greater reach beyond the two people talking in the hallway.”
  • Neil Movold on 13 Dec 11
     
    The crux of using social media in any endeavor, as Gina Schreck has said, is, "Social media invites and allows interaction from others. How are you inviting that interaction?" The popularity of social media tools means that sooner, rather than later, those of us in the field will need to examine what this means for us. Among other things, as noted by Taleo's Tom Stone, use of social media tools is an excellent means of making learning more transparent. As he says, "It's captured, searchable, and has much greater reach beyond the two people talking in the hallway."
Neil Movold

Four Ways to Assess the Latest Learning Trends - 0 views

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Learning Trends

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  • Neil Movold on 15 Feb 12
     
    It's tempting to get caught up in every new practice or technology that comes along in learning. Here's how to assess when and why they're right for your business
Neil Movold

Welcome to the Era of Cognitive Systems - 0 views

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Cognitive Systems Big Data

shared by Neil Movold on 22 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Notice, I don’t use the term “thinking machines.” That’s because I don’t want to suggest that cognitive systems will think like humans do. Rather, they will help us think and make better decisions.
  • Neil Movold on 22 Dec 12
     
    "Today, we are at the dawn of another epochal shift in the evolution of technology. At IBM Research, we call it the era of cognitive systems. This is a big deal. The changes that are coming over the next 10 to 20 years-building on IBM's Watson technology-will transform the way we live, work and learn, just as programmable computing has transformed the human landscape over the past 60+ years. You could even call this the post-computing era."
Neil Movold

interesting Links to Semantic Web Learning - 1 views

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Semantic Web RDFa Semantic Technologies

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  • Neil Movold on 13 Jul 11
     
    Hi, I'm just starting to research semantic web, web 3.0 and RDF…  that post was building a repository of data that pointed to some good content on Semantic Web Learning. 
Neil Movold

MIT's Thomas Malone on Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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Collective Intelligence Thomas Malone Collaborative Learning Collaborative Intelligence

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  • Neil Movold on 23 Jun 13
     
    "Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence,  is one of the leading thinkers in the realm of anticipating how new technologies will transform the way work is done and leaders lead. His 2004 book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life, helped thousands of executives and would-be executives see their organizations, and themselves, in startling new ways. As a result, many organizations are becoming more collaborative and democratic. Now, Malone is exploring how social business, data analytics and cognitive computing will transform organizations once again. Here, he talks about the revolution that is coming."
Neil Movold

Social Media design principles of social interaction from Adrian Chan 2012 - 0 views

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Social Media Design Principles Interaction Design Social Interaction Social Learning

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  • Neil Movold on 12 Feb 12
     
    Social media are talk technologies. They are the means of production in an age of communication. They aid in the production and exchange of knowledge and information and culture, based on human interests. They are media in which people see themselves represented. Their impact is as much psychological and social as it is technical. In recent years, social media have come off the page. Social tools have become more talkative, mobile, and real-time. They have taken a conversational turn. And as these social tools increasingly facilitate relationships and communication, their role in these deeply personal and social dynamics has become a matter for design. The need for a deeper understanding of the fit between tools and social interactions calls for a new design practice. This is social interaction design
Neil Movold

Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Artificial Intelligence

shared by Neil Movold on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Several biologically inspired paths are being explored by computer scientists in universities and corporate laboratories worldwide. But researchers from I.B.M. and four universities — Cornell, Columbia, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California, Merced — are engaged in a project that seems particularly intriguing. The project, a collaboration of computer scientists and neuroscientists begun three years ago, has been encouraging enough that in August it won a $21 million round of government financing from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, bringing the total to $41 million in three rounds. In recent months, the team has developed prototype “neurosynaptic” microprocessors, or chips that operate more like neurons and synapses than like conventional semiconductors.
  • The technology produced, according to the guidelines, should have the characteristics of being self-organizing, able to “learn” instead of merely responding to conventional programming commands, and consuming very little power.
  • Neil Movold on 07 Dec 11
     
    For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that - a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit of artificial intelligence. As Frederick Jelinek, a pioneer in speech recognition, put it, "airplanes don't flap their wings." Yet the principles of biology are gaining ground as a tool in computing. The shift in thinking results from advances in neuroscience and computer science, and from the prod of necessity.
Neil Movold

Linked Education | Learning and Education with the Web of Data - 0 views

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Linked Data Semantic Technologies

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  • Neil Movold on 12 Dec 11
     
    LinkedEducation.org is an open platform aimed at further promoting the use of Linked Data for educational purposes.
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