Authors did an opening exercise at a conference in 2010 to force choices by educators on organizationally controlled vs. individually controlled PLEs. It clear that the shift is toward individualized learning supported/guided by educators side by side not in front of the learner. Excerpt "To help them in this endeavour, institutions have an important role as guides (not leaders) that have to trespass their own walls and enter the environments (in plural) where learning actually takes place, which increasingly is outside of the framework of formality. In fact, this seems to be answering at the WHAT question: what is learning in the digital era? The rest of pairs (Openness and the Barriers) seem to be pointing at the HOW question: how should learning be carried on in the digital era?. The answer seems to be open and flexible institutions, new educational systems and methodologies and a dire organizational change."

Excellent exploration of a PLE and how it may or may not integrate with a formal institutionally based and managed VLE (through a school or employer perhaps?) and how the learner needs to own his/her PLE for lifelong and portable learning. Acknowledges the eportfolio that a school might provide a learner (but this can be set up and managed by learner as a formative and summative device).

blog on lifelong and personal learning with graphic on a personal learning environment that includes the people (pln) and personal web tools

Examples of personal learning networks Mindmeister mindmaps visible to public

This blog post is for nonprofits to create marketing personas but it has value IMO for WLStudio, too. How would women at different ages--40, 50, 60, 70, and 80+year olds--relate to the "maven" title? We have suggested that maven 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0 are aspirational levels of knowledge and skill that women would earn by going through different programs. Are these the personas that we wish to present to attract women to the WLStudio in the first place? Or something else?

Open Culture website--lists all kinds of free online courses; should we link to this site or somehow study these to see which ones we might recommend to WLStudio learners?

interesting website that chronicles instructional development; appears to be crowdsourced to some extent. Barbara Bray and Charlotte McGovern are the e-coach team.

Nice expression of principles by Ruzuku's workforce

Excellent 10 minute presentation by Harold Jarche, Social Learning Centre on Personal Knowledge Management, an intro to PKM workshop, posted May 19, 2012

About page from Social Learning Centre (UK)

Great example of the Social Learning Centre's (UK) approach to "other" learning activities on its website.

Excellent list of Diigo linked resources assembled by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on traditions in adult and workplace learning. Has implications for how we structure the learning processes/places for WLS.

Barbara Bray's Scoop.it page. Like the embedded form you can create in survey builder.

Blog post by Lara Galinsky on Dowser (who's solving what and how), August 6, 2012 "This may sound idealistic but we are already on the way. According to Net Impact's recent Talent Report: What Workers Want in 2012, the Millennial generation wants, and expects, to do good and do well in their paid work. In fact, a majority of students (65 percent) expect to make a difference in the world through their work, and 53 percent would take a 15 percent pay cut to work for an organization whose values matched their own. However, in my experience, too few of these students know the kind of difference they want to make, and how to make it. And that is the real opportunity. In order to harness this generation's desire to create change, we must move away from the antiquated concept of vocation, which emphasizes what's in it for the individual: whether it will sustain their interest or bring them fame or fortune. Instead, we need to help young people start their professional lives by asking questions. What issues, ideas, people, and projects move them deeply? What problems are theirs to own? How can they combine their heads and hearts to address those problems? What is their unique genius and how can it be of use to the world beyond themselves?"

video on google search tips, 7 minutes long, found it from Free Tech4Teachers blog, August 2012.

home page for Groupaya wiki. Like their sun-ball being lifted overhead logo. Incredible # of pages of different resources here.

Excellent site (wiki) for Groupaya. This page is on Leading Change. Found this because Eugene Kim is leader for Leadership Learning Community.

blog by Heidi Grant Halvorson on HBR website re: our lack of insight when it comes to analyzing why we do/don't succeed; others know us better, July 30, 2012. See link to free diagnostics to build self-awareness

An interesting diagnostic on practices of successful people--series of questions around 9 elements, like content and format--offered free by author Heidi Grant Halvorson of book Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, found 8.6.2012

Very nice site by the Milken Institute (changing the world in innovative ways) featuring bite-size multimedia appetizers of its Best Cities for Successful Aging research.