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Harold Jarche » Communication and working together - 1 views

  • levels of access to various members, depending on the task. Where would that come into your framework? Harold Jarche, on February 11th, 2010 at 19:32 Said: Good question. I wonder if the act of hiding information is a result of an over-controlling organizational communication structure, and not supporting collaboration or cooperation in a more unfettered manner? Cooperative or collaborative learning? « Edmusings, on February 12th, 2010 at 15:01 Said: [...] Harold Jarche &nbsp;uses the two terms with collaboration applied to&nbsp;a model of action for informal groups, such as communities of practice, and cooperation with loose networks. [...] uberVU - social comments, on February 27th, 2010 at 3:14 Said: Social comments and analytics for this post… This post was mentioned on Twitter by omeroz: Communication and working together http://bit.ly/9QDBZx... Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree &nbsp;Notify me of subsequent comments to this thread Conversations Harold Jarche on The Networked Workplace Jon Husband on The Networked Workplace ?????? ??????? LMS? « E-learning NET on Formalized informal learning: a blend we don’t need Harold Jarche on New Hire Practices Harold Jarche on Vendor-neutral E-PORTAFOLIOS, del PLN al APRENDIZAJE!!! « juandon. Innovación y conocimiento on All models are flawed but some are useful kaleem on New Hire Practices Kare Anderson on Vendor-neutral Harold Jarche on Social learning for collaborative work Mack on Social learning for collaborative work Twitter Faves rdeis: Transparency + Clarity = Understanding. @aronsolomon http://www.aronsolomon.com/t-c-u/ rdeis: Good employers don't work against human nature http://t.co/ZbhwVve via @globeandmail &gt;&gt; Paying attention to 4 human needs. jukkaam: Mistaken beliefs business leaders have about innovation: know the competition, best way of doing things http://onforb.es/klE9ej #innovation hjarche: KM shifts from ‘content &amp; collection’ to ‘context &amp; connection’ by @panklam http://ur1.ca/4avm9 #PKM hjarche: Excellent #PKM &amp; networked learning ref list by @hreingold http://ur1.ca/4av6x Introduction to Mind Amplifiers Archives<SELECT onchange=document.location.href=thttp://www.jarche.com/his.options[this.selectedIndex].value; name
  • Something I am trying to get a handle on in my dissertation has to do with communication (and communication formats) that are imposed on a group/team and those in which groups or teams are able to develop their own forms and forms of communication. What I found is that a team might have “hidden” communication, withholding from some, developing different spaces and different &nbsp;levels of access to various members, depending on the task. Where would that come into your framework? Harold Jarche , on February 11th, 2010 at 19:32 Said: Good question. I wonder if the act of hiding information is a result of an over-controlling organizational communication structure, and not supporting collaboration or cooperation in a more unfettered manner? Cooperative or collaborative learning? « Edmusings , on February 12th, 2010 at 15:01 Said: [...] Harold Jarche &nbsp; uses the two terms with collaboration applied to &nbsp; a model of action for informal groups, such as communities of practice, and cooperation with loose networks. [...] uberVU - social comments , on February 27th, 2010 at 3:14 Said: Social comments and analytics for this post… This post was mentioned on Twitter by omeroz: Communication and working together http://bit.ly/9QDBZx . . . Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree &nbsp; Notify me of subsequent comments to this thread Conversations Harold Jarche on The Networked Workplace Jon Husband on The Networked Workplace ?????? ??????? LMS? « E-learning NET on Formalized informal learning: a blend we don’t need Harold Jarche on New Hire Practices Harold Jarche on Vendor-neutral E-PORTAFOLIOS, del PLN al APRENDIZAJE!!! « juandon. Innovación y c on ocimiento on All models are flawed but some are useful kaleem on New Hire Practices Kare Anders on on Vendor-neutral Harold Jarche on Social learning for collaborative work Mack on Social learning for collaborative work Twitter Faves rdeis: Transparency + Clarity = Understanding. @aronsolomon http://www.aronsolomon.com/t-c-u/ rdeis: Good employers don't work against human nature http://t.co/ZbhwVve via @globeandmail &gt;&gt; Paying attention to 4 human needs. jukkaam: Mistaken beliefs business leaders have about innovation: know the competition, best way of doing things http://onforb.es/klE9ej #innovation <A clas
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    An earlier blog by Harold Jarche referring to Lillie Efimova's work. Note how structure/goal oriented moves over to informal/opportunity-driven network with personal drivers taking over. Perhaps most MCNC groups reside in the opportunity-driven, informal networking place--not so much coordination but cooperation keeps them together, weakly? Has an impact also on facilitator's role.
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MERLOT - 0 views

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    Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline. In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty. Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content." The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.
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A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

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    by Derek Bruff, November 6, 2011. The best justification of the Innovation Lab premise that I have seen. "Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."" Often our students engage in what Ken Bain, vice provost and a historian at Montclair State University, calls strategic or surface learning, instead of the deep learning experiences we want them to have. Deep learning is hard work, and students need to be well motivated in order to pursue it. Extrinsic factors like grades aren't sufficient-they motivate competitive students toward strategic learning and risk-averse students to surface learning. Social pedagogies provide a way to tap into a set of intrinsic motivations that we often overlook: people's desire to be part of a community and to share what they know with that community. My students might not see the beauty and power of mathematics, but they can look forward to participating in a community effort to learn about math. Online, social pedagogies can play an important role in creating such a community. These are strong motivators, and we can make use of them in the courses we teach.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Harold Jarche » Increased complexity needs simplified design - 0 views

  • As Jay has said, informal learning is a better approach for more complex environments. Given the above, here are some guidelines for what informal learning development could look like: Spend less time on design and more on ongoing evaluation to allow emergent practices to be developed. Build learning resources so that they can be easily changed or modified by anyone (allow for a hacker mentality) Allow everything to be connected, so that the work environment is the learning environment (but look for safe places to fail) There is no clearly defined start or finish so enable connections from multiple access points. Information is no longer scarce and our connections are now many. If an organizational informal learning effort lets people connect more easily and communicate more effectively, then it will have a chance of success. Connecting &amp; Communicating are central roles for organizational leaders whose workplaces are becoming more complex, either in terms of evolving practices, changing markets or advances in technology. Enabling the integration of collaborative learning with work is a more flexible model than designing courses that are outdated as soon as they’re published.
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    Exellent article on formal learning designs and why they don't work so well
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electronic learning communities - 1 views

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    Headed by Amy Bruckman, Associate professor at Georgia Tech, this Electronic Learning Communities center engages Ph.D. level students in studying the application of constructionist social learning online. They are doing some fascinating work, such as developing software to support leaders of learning communities, offering young A-A males the chance to be game testers and to use that experience credential as a route into computer science studies and careers, etc. These are but two research examples; there are more.
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Community Colleges Must Focus on Quality of Learning, Report Says - 0 views

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    By Sara Lipka in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 11 2010. Reporting on the latest report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement, which states that "Increasing college completion is meaningless unless certificates and degrees represent real learning, which community colleges must work harder to ensure."
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Growing Virtual Communities - 0 views

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    By Debbie Garber, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol 5 (2), August 2004. This paper goes beyond technology to look at "the social process on which an online learning community if it is to flourish and be useful." Also stresses "importance of nurturing the community's health, and the natural life cycle of a virtual community...."
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7 Community Colleges Try an Online Doorway to Help Students Succeed - 0 views

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    By Josh Fischman, and part of The Chronicle (of Higher Education's) 2011 Special Report on Online Learning, published Nov 6 2011. Central Piedmont Community College developed an Online Student Portal learning system to improve retention among its students. They have had success with the system (in use 2004-2008). Now, with a Next Gen grant, they will roll the system out to 6 additional local schools to see if they can match the retention improvements. The system is based both on learning styles and on frequent intervention by students and counselors.
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eqm0531.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    Article by Peter Chepya (professor of instructional design at Post University in CT) in 2005 on E-Personality: The Fusion of IT and Pedagogical Technique, how to create the 'there" on line. The excerpt below speaks to the transformation that occurs with Jam newcomers as they move from text-based exchange to passionate dialogue online. We need to figure out how to convey this in a Jam video. Excerpt: My online teaching relies on the "human element," expressed in features such as companionability and presence. The cumulative effect creates an atmosphere I call "presence learning" as opposed to the outdated misnomer "distance learning" often used with Internet courses. Presence learning creates a palpable connection between the instructor and the student, engaging students in "reality," not "virtual reality"--another outdated aphorism. Once while delivering a paper at a conference of online educators, I was challenged by a participant who thought my online course (being projected onto a screen) was "heavy on the text." Upon learning that the questioner's field was American literature, I asked hi if he thought Moby Dick was "heavy on the text." If the work is compelling, the medium disappears and the experience becomes actual. ...We came to accept the telegraph as "real" communication, as we then did the telephone, radio, recorded music, television, and cinema. We forgot the medium in each case.
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Pursuing the elusive metaphor of community in virtual learning environments - 0 views

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    By Richard Schwier, Proceedings of EMEDIA 2009, Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education, June 2009. Schwier works out of the Virtual Learning Communities Research Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan, and this paper looks at some of their key findings.
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Building Learning Communities 2011 - 0 views

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    By Darren Kuropatwa on his blog, A Difference, July 29 2011. In this post, Kuropatwa shares three presntations he gave at the 2011 Building Learning Communities conference. His presentations are rich (many of the individual slides have clickable links), but of course much is lost without his voice. There is a note that videos of the presentations will be included when they are available.
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Investigations of e-learning patterns : context factors, problems, and solutions - 0 views

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    By Christian Kohls (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany); Joachim Wedeknd (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany), Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. 2011. Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solutions for recurrent problems with respect to fitting context. This publication addresses both e-learning practitioners and researchers, using an accessible language to communicate sophisticated knowledge and important research methods and results.
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Encouraging Collaborative Constructionism: Principles Behind the Modeling Commons - 1 views

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    Paper by Reuven M. Lerner, Dept. of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Sharona T. Levy, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa and Uri Wilensky, Depts. of Learning Sciences and Computer Science, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University. Paper describes underlying principles of the Modeling Commons, a community for NetLogo modelers to share and collaborate.
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    Design principles for fostering public sharing and collaboration: Focus on artifacts; provide multiple entry points; be forgiving; maximize findability; provide flexible permissions; keep users informed.
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An Interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - 1 views

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    Blog post about her company/community, Powerful Learning Practice, on the blog Connected Educators, posted Dec 18 2011. Nussbaum-Beach founded Powerful Learning Practice, with creates virtual CoPs, primarily with K-12 educators. Their model is to collect teams from several schools to work together in a larger CoP. In the first year, participants share in an action research project; if they chose to continue for a second year, they "collaboratively create" a classroom unit.
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    Many of the ideas here -- specifically those around engagement and various assessments/measures of success -- seem akin to KPI's own findings. Interesting project and interview.
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Connections: Virtual Learning Communities (e-Book) - 0 views

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    By Richard A. Schwier and published June 2011. This page offers free download of the .epub. Schwier is at the University of Saskatchewan and studies virtual learning communities. For more, see the scheier tag.
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EdTechTalk | Collaborative Open Webcasting Community - 0 views

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    From About page, "EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about the uses of educational technology. We webcast several live shows each week." Webcast categories include 21st Century Learning, EdTech Weekly, EdTechTalk, and many others.
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Harold Jarche » United by networked and social learning - 0 views

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    A glimpse at learning networks vs. work teams vs. communities of practice.
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Where's the "Learn This" Button? by Maria Andersen - 0 views

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    Presentation was part of Ignite Great Lakes, July 30 2011. Maria Anderson is a futurist and math professor at Muskegon Community College. It's not enough to bookmark (or digitally hoard); we need a "learn this" button. Essentially, this is a more efficient bookmarking system where we revisit sites of interest and actually ask ourselves questions about the topics.
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Online, People Learn Best from Virtual 'Helpers' That Resemble Them - Wired Campus - Th... - 0 views

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    This research is why I was encouraging host ambassadors to upload their pictures and profiles--they can be far more successful than I at engaging their peers in Polilogue-learning prior to the Conference.
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Statway (Statistics Pathway) - 0 views

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    A program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Statway focuses on helping community college students learn basic skills in statistics, data analysis, and quantitative reasoning as part of a one-year pathway. The ultimate goal of this pathway is preparation for college-level statistics. This home page to Statway also includes links to the project blog (called Pathways Connection) and to the project's mailing list. There are 19 community colleges affiliated with this project.
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