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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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Schwier, Richard - 0 views

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    Professor of Educational Technology and Design at the University of Saskatchewan. Schwier does a lot of work on virtual learning communities (vlc).
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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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5 reasons students would rather play Xbox than use the LMS - 0 views

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    Posted by dskmag on the blog Design for Learning, May 28 2011. This blog is written by Dean Groom, who has an interest in "embedding new pedagogical classroom practice to create authentic, realistic and relevant learning for today's learners." This post describes ways to make LMS (and online courses) more engaging, following a gaming/Xbox model.
Laren D

Take a couse or make your own at Learnable - 1 views

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    Excellent course site. This is where I have taken some web technology courses and I love how they do it. Learnable's tag line: "Ordinary people. Extraordinary knowledge." Also a platform where you can BUILD a course and collect fees from it.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Learning Through Digital Media » Essay - 0 views

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    An incredible resource on Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, edited by Trebor Scholz.
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National Academies Press (website) - 0 views

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    "As of June 2 2011, all PDFs of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge." -- more than 4,000 titles. This site is now an excellent resource for free e-books.
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Report: Over a third of students entering college need remedial help - 0 views

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    By Kara Spak, Chicago Sun-Times, May 31, 2011. This article cites a recent report released by the Alliance for Excellent Education, which finds that "as many as one-third of students entering higher education need to take some sort of remedial or developmental course...." Putting a human face on these statistics is the profile of one student who graduated from high school with a 3.0 GPA and a B in "College Algebra" but still needed to take a non-credit developmental math course when she got to community college.
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Not all graduates ready to tackle college - 0 views

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    By Tina Marie Macias in the advertiser. com (Louisiana), May 20, 2011. The author cites analysis by The Daily Advertiser (the print newspaper) that "the majority of 2010 ACT-tested Lafayette Parish students did not meet college readiness benchmarks." The article also compares the ACT as an indicator against TOPS (Taylor Opportunity for Students Award, a local grant).
Diana Woolis

Office of Instructional Consulting: IU School of Education - 1 views

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    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!
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    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
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Why Fairfax should ax the substandard 'Standard Diploma' - 0 views

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    By Kristen Amundson, Op/Ed, The Washington Post, May 27 2011. Amundson argues that the state of Virginia is doing itself a disservice by allowing high school students to graduate with a "standard diploma." The diploma requires only three years of math, leaving many students unprepared for college math and thus required to enroll in developmental math.
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Abandon Hope, All Who Enter | Thoughts on Public Education - 0 views

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    "What used to be known as remedial education now goes by either developmental education or basic skills. Lexicon aside, it's become apparent that these classes don't work. At least half a dozen reports released in the past year (two in the past couple of weeks alone) warn that the United States is headed for an economic calamity unless we can figure out how to get more students to successfully complete some type of postsecondary education program. It doesn't have to be a baccalaureate degree. It could be an associate's degree or a professional certification, but by the year 2018 about two-thirds of all jobs will require some college education, according to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce. Of those, 22 million will require actual degrees, AA or better, but at the current rate, we're already off track by some 3 million degrees."
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What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should - 0 views

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    By Jennifer Howard in the Technology section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29 2011. Interview with Nancy Sims, lawyer, librarian and copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. A basic overview of copyright law, particularly in academic setting, includes a list of additional copyright resources at the end of the article.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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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Accountability's Fine, but It Won't Replace Great Teachers - Commentary - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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    Interesting look-see by retiring community college president Eric Reno in TX. He points out that the failure to get an AS degree is not an indicator of failure but simply that a person may have chosen a different transfer point to enter a four year college. Yet lawmakers and policy makers look to the AS completion degree as the end of story for community college effectiveness. According to this single measure, I am a failure because I did not obtain an AS degree but my sister who received an AS in nursing is a success! We both have master's degrees.
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Harold Jarche » Emergent practices need practice - 1 views

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    "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."
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 & 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
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Harold Jarche » Technologies for collaboration and cooperation - 0 views

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    Look at graph below to show goal oriented to opportunity driven, from informal to
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