Communities of Practice Steve Dale

Communities of Practice: Conversations To Collaboration

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Social learning Jane Hart

From E-Learning to Social Learning

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Personal Learning Environment Stephen Downes

Beyond Management: The Personal Learning Environment

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We Think

We Think

A Collaborative Workplace

A great paper here on building a collaborative workplace by Shawn Callahan, Mark Schenk and Nancy White via Harold Jarche

An extract…………….

“Today we face an entirely new environment for innovation and getting things done. The days of the lone genius quietly toiling away in pursuit of that Eureka moment to revolutionise an industry are all but over. We are now in the days of asking and listening to our customers and working with them in our innovation cycles. Innovation demands collaboration. So does production. In the past we could focus on a single task in an assembly-line fashion, handing our completed activity to the next person who would in turn do the same, until the job was finished. Now the jobs change fast, requiring learning new skills rather than merely repeating the old. We have to seek out people who have other pieces of the puzzle and work with them to tackle increasingly complex issues at a much faster pace.”

Handbook of emerging technologies for learning

A handbook written by  George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger as well as a wiki that will continue to be updated is now available.

“This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.”

Really worth reading.

elearning

A great post here from Janet Clarey on elearning design. Some good links too

Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations

Great opportunity to participate in an on-line conference organised by George Siemens, Jay Cross and Tony Karrer. It takes place between November 17th-21st and is free. You can sign up here

Collaborative learning at work. Towards Maturity

 An extract from a recent report.  Towards Maturity

“Over the next 3 years employers reported an expected a certain level of growth in the use of the collaborative properties of the web:

• 32% use moderated chat rooms / discussion groups (rising to 49% by 2010) 
• 40% use e-tutor support to learners ( rising to 51%)
• 24% growth in online collaboration between learners 
• 49% provide online access to in house expertise (but only rising to 52% by 2010)
• 43% provide collaborative learning via mentors & coaches ( rising to 47%)
• 19% use blogs and wiki’s (rising to 34% by 2010)”

How people learn

Great resource here

Thanks Don