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learning and KM insights - Friday, September 10, 2004 Personal KM: one-person enterprise Still thinking of personal KM... There is a very funny analogy here with KM in general: some people are fixated on PKM technologies and others saying that this is wrong (next to it, of course, there is a whole discussion on using the "wrong" term to label the phenomenon :) For me the truth is somewhere in between. You can hardly think about successful KM initiatives that do not employ any technology at all, but at the same time it's almost obvious that technology is not the solution, but only part of it and, probably not the most critical part. It's about why and how you use technologies and, most important, how they fit working practices and social fabric behind them. Explaining my PhD research and ideas behind personal KM I find one-person enterprise metaphor useful (please, note that I stole this idea and some others from time management book by Gleb Archangelsky). So, think of yourself as about a knowledge-intensive company:
My Learning Tools « ID and Other Reflections I just finished reading Harold Jarche’s post: Seek, Sense, Share In the post, he talks about how seeking information, then applying our personal sense-making filters to it, and finally sharing it helps us to see the interconnections, patterns and the larger whole. This is why the process of “seek, sense, share” becomes so important in one’s personal learning and knowledge management. This set me thinking about how I manage my personal knowledge and from there it led to the tools I use to do in this networked world. Lately, I have started using a number of Web tools actively. I have listed the tools in their order of frequency of usage (at least now and this is liable to change)… What do I receive (tangible and intangible)/how do I use each of the tools… Twitter: Amplify: 1. 5. Blog: As Harold Jarche has said, my blog is where I hammer out my ideas. Posterous: A place for my half formed ideas—those that are too big for Twitter and too scrappy to be a post. Readernaut: Evernote: Xmind and Freemind:
25 Free Lifelong Learning Resources | Free Online Learning The Internet has made the lifelong pursuit of knowledge easier for nearly everyone in the world. There are tons of websites dedicated to providing free courses, reference books, education apps, and other learning materials. Here are 25 stand-out sites that would be useful to almost any lifelong learner. Clusty – This unique search engine sorts results into clusters of related information so that it is easier to sort out the relevant from the irrelevant. Schoolr – Schoolr is a fully-customizable search engine that can be used to search Google, Wikipedia, and other popular sites. MyStickies – This site offers an alternative to bookmarking. Diigo is a handy research tool that can be used to highlight and annotate pages on the web. Hooey – Hooey is a unique tool for people who like to surf the web. Internet Public Library – The IPL is a free public library for the Internet community. RefDesk – This award-winning, family-friendly website is a great place to find reference materials online.
Collaborative Learning – for the people, by the people by Josh L Should training organizations cancel their LMS subscriptions, take a hammer to their laser pointers, and bury their Webcams? By all means, NO! Formal learning is needed in most organizations. What we must do is redefine ourselves as learning construction experts. Traditional approaches to training are facing disruption. When I say “traditional,” I mean more than instructor-led training located in classrooms. The basic reason is simple. Traditional training programs will not be able to supply the large pipeline of knowledge, skills, and information that your workers will need. Figure 1: Traditional hierarchical structures are a bottleneck between learners and the knowledge pool. Any astute training manager will tell you that they can feel this in their bones. “Josh, I need to create about 15 new programs this year. I can empathize with this. Even doing all of this, I still felt like I was only scratching the surface. So what is this all about? Learn or die – It’s the truth.
Learning 3 – what are the key competencies for learning professi On Friday I attended the Learning 3 symposium at the British Museum in London along with Jane Hart, Laura Overton and a crowd of others, mostly from the UK Further and Higher Education sectors. Here’s a picture of me at the event producing a 30-second series of sound bites on what the future of Learning and Development needs (the picture links to a video on the Learning 3 Ning site). What our hosts LLUK (and particularly Briony Taylor) wanted to stimulate was a dialog around this question: What are the skills and competencies needed by the lifelong learning sector now? During the day I put out a quick Twitter poll on this, as it seemed odd to be discussing Learning 3 in a room without pulling in the wider learning community. Jane Hart did the same. The learning Twittersphere was engaged: we generated quite a few replies…. Here are some suggestions of key competencies needed for today’s L&D professional: For more on the continuing conversation, visit the debate on the Learning3 Ning community.
Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Web 2.0 Tools - Wikib Shen-yu Huang Institute of Education The Program of Learning Technology National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Introduction of Web 2.0 tools[edit] Web 2.0 is an emerging applications between knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, which accumulates collective knowledge in a spiral fashion. Web 2.0 is concerned with active knowledge sharing and creation, whereas Web 1.0 is about passive viewing of content. Associated with the impact on human life, take for example, Web 2.0 help enterprise gather the new information or idea through on line community embedded in the intranet. Web 2.0 technologies give learners and instructors a new perspective to consider how these tools can be enhanced in educational settings, and the tools can be inferred to “Web 2.0 tools”? There are some common characteristics of Web 2.0 tools, for example : • Web as a platform (O'Reilly, 2005) • Who has the high degree of choice • Participants act in a collaborative way Pods and Blogs: Pros & Cons[edit] Podcasts Blogs 1. 2. 3.
5 Powerful Forces That Are Keeping You From Learning | Goodlife A Guest Post by Jeff Cobb of Mission to Learn Are you a lifelong learner? Given that you are reading a blog like Goodlife Zen, I’m betting that your answer to that question is a resounding ‚”Yes, of course!‚” But here’s an important follow-up question: Are you always a successful lifelong learner? Do you always achieve the learning goals you set for yourself? Why do we get stuck in ‘learning ruts’ like this? Consistency Developing strong, consistent habits can be a very positive part of personal growth, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson suggested long ago, our lives are full of routines and rituals that we unconsciously adopt and that often blind us to our real passion and purpose in life. Take a close look at even the most trivial of habits in your life. Common Sense On the surface, following common sense sounds like a great idea – and often it is. What ideas and beliefs have you unconsciously accepted as common sense in your own life? Baggage Noise Fear How can this be? Stay Alert
Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – d Today I took part in the inaugural live online session run by the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD). It used The Open University’s Flash Meeting platform, which was a new one for me. The session debated the following motion: ‘Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss’ I happily presented the case for the motion. 1. 2. The use of online content, in its many forms, typically asynchronously (self-paced). 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. That’s what I presented.
The networked enterprise and learning support Would you rather go to a doctor who is in the band-aid business or the healing business? Prescribing training for all organizational learning is like handing out band-aids without a diagnosis. Training is often a solution in search of a problem. This becomes evident when ~80% of learning on the job is informal and less than 10% of the knowledge needed for work is in our heads. Enterprise training and its ADDIE framework are designed to develop individual skills, where the objective is always, “the learner will be able to …” not, “the organization will be able to …”. We need to understand, encourage and support social learning in the enterprise. Recently, Jane Hart & Jay Cross created this graphic that shows the five stages of workplace learning. One limitation of this representation is that the first four stages look bigger than the fifth stage and could be perceived as being more important.