Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

Curt Bonk is an amazing instructional design professor at Indiana University. Here he has 27 videos (about 10 minutes long each) covering everything from discussion forums (I learned a lot!) to Blended Learning to wiki uses and applications. All free!

Thanks to Doris and Diana for sharing - like the idea of the databank of 10 min videos. Excellent subjects that are of interest to KPI! I liked the one on Online Collaboration. - Stephanie

Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has sorted their research by topic. Each entry includes the article's author, date published, and a very brief description. Community articles range from "How the Public Perceives Community Information Systems" to data sets like "Social Side of the Internet." This looks to be a great resource.

By Lisa Neal in eLearn Magazine Diana Laurillard answers questions about her new position, e-learning and new technologies.

Sample RFP for Learning Management System from Saba. Complete request for proposal with extensive list of detailed questions. Saba combines "learning, people management and collaboration technologies."

"But many of the problems we face today are COMPLEX, and methods to solve simple and complicated problems will not work with complex ones. One of the ways we addressed simple & complicated problems was through training. Training works well when you have clear and measurable objectives. However, there are no clear objectives with complex problems. Learning as we probe the problem, we gain insight and our practices are emergent (emerging from our interaction with the changing environment and the problem). Training looks backwards, at what worked in the past (good & best practices), and creates a controlled environment to develop knowledge and skills."

Quora is a cloud-based tool to build on collaborative knowledge.

I'm a member of Quora. It's a growing a bank of all kinds of questions & answers on a variety of subjects. -Iris

By Michael Feldstein on the blog e-Literate, May 13 2012. In the context of last year's NERCOMP LMS Unconference, Feldstein first explains the concept of an unconference and then describes his own (successful) strategy to giving the keynote. Along the way, he defines a third way of teaching (or conducting a conference), in opposition to "guide on the side" or "sage on the stage," he suggests "guide on the stage," while acknowledging that each of these methods is correct and has its proper place/time/audience.

Many of Feldstein's ideas about "priming the pump," unconferences, and "guide on the stage" might be useful in Jams as well.

By Michael Quinn Patton, published by Guilford Press 2011. For more, see tags patton or evaluation

Online learning community.

By Angela Alcorn on the blog MakeUseOf, October 8 2010; shared by IdealWare in their Best of the Web email, May 8 2012. The post offers some tips, links to tutorials, and then 10 free tools, with brief annotation to describe what each is good at.

Review from Publisher's Weekly, August 18 2008. For more follow tag tribes

On the ChildCount+ site, information about their software. For more, see tag child_count

By Debra Askanase on her blog, communityorganizer2.0, September 6, 2011. In this post, the blogger writes about the benefits of infographics as a storytelling tool, what makes a good infographic and ways that nonprofits can use infographics. she links to other resources, including community-created infographics, sites for inspiration, and tools to DIY.

On mobiMOOC

From the site, "FlashMeeting is an easy to use online meeting application, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection." It seems that, in addition to using FlashMeeting to facilitate the meeting, the site also posts an archive of the meeting, which you can point to from your own website.

Excellent blog by Beth on seek, sense, share--the meat of content curation

Created by Andromeda Jazmon using Storify, a tool that seems to allow users to create a pool of resources. For more on this topic, see tag ed_curation

Posted by Marlèn Arkesteijn on her blog, Capturing Development, June 24 2011. For more, see tags patton or evaluation.

Organization's website.

Molly Martin is the Operations and Learning Officer (when website was bookmarked 9/16/11). For more about Martin, see tag martin