2005-05

Learning from Google

link to website from Godfrey Parkin “Training, as we have known it, is not driven by consumer demand, has uninteresting ROI, provides really fuzzy benefits, and cannot be easily differentiated. But that can change. Education focuses on helping people know…

Knowledge Management Journal

link to website “An open access, peer-reviewed, community journal on knowledge management in development - for and by development practitioners and researchers. KM4D Journal focuses on knowledge management in development. It includes diverse knowledge…

Videoblogging workshop

vlog 3.0 [a blog about vogs] » link to website From Adrian Miles “These are the notes for the video blogging workshop that was held as a part of BlogTalk DownUnder. They consist of general notes (that won't make a lot of sense without having attended the…

Varieties of elearning

link to website Presentation by Dr. Gary Woodill on Effective Management of Distributed Online Educational Content list of possibilities: 1 Advising/Counseling Tools 2 Arts-based Experiential Tools 3 Automated Online Assessments 4 Blogging 5 Collaboration…

Towards a learning society conference

Maarten Cannaerts writes a blog called Conference Blog - Towards a learning society which records thoughts prompted by the conference. Many leads to follow up here.

Quick Start RSS for Educators

link to pdf From Will Richardson a Quick Start Guide to RSS in pdf format.

Knowledge

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Quote from Samuel Johnson

Formalising Informal Learning

link to website From Ted Cocheu’s Rapid Elearning Blog “Informal learning is essential and inevitable and trying to formalize it past a point seems counterproductive and silly. But making it more efficient by providing more specific knowledge repositories…

Flickr tips and tools collection

link to website What looks like a comprehensive guide to various Flickr related tips, tools and applications.

Thoughts about Learning Design

I’m cleaning out my Bloglines account - Lately I’ve been flagging articles that look interesting but not getting back to them. I’m focussing this afternoon on Learning Design…. As long as we focus on lectures/ instructor led workshops for our staff…

Creativity Tools

link to website from the Mind Tools website “Creativity Tools Develop creative solutions to the problems you face This section of Mind Tools explains a wide range of techniques you can use to come up with creative and imaginative solutions to the challenges…

Use of phones for mlearning

link to website by Ellen D. Wagner “The heightened interest in mobile possibilities for teaching, learning, and research can be attributed to a number of factors: the continuing expansion of broadband wireless networks; the explosion of power and capacity of…

Storytelling: Passport to the 21st Century

link to website A website from 2003 that includes many presentations gathered under headins such as Values, Future Stories, Springboard Stories from a group of experts in the field.

KM in Organisations

link to website Dave Pollard provides a summary of a presentation about organisational knowledge management in a FAQ format.

Dave Snowden - Social Complexity

link to pdf I came across Dave Snowden at a session about education.au where his thoughts on social complexity were flagged of being of interest. Since then I have noticed his work being referred to in a couple of the business/innovation/knowledge management…

Lights Lights

link to website another website with a wide range of gorgeous lights but they only seem to ship to US, Canada and Europe at present. link to website some lights that can be joined together as modules, even come as rechargeable units. Based in France, need to…

Hot Potatoes on PDAs

link to website a discussion about the things that worked and didn’t work when converting Hot Potato quizzes onto a Pocket PC.

Career Planning Tool

link to website From myfuture.edu.au comes a planning tool that “guides you through activities to help you explore your career. You will answer questions, explore career suggestions made by myfuture, select career favourites, clarify your career direction,…

Workflow learning Workflow learning

link to website this blog post from Jay Cross has a neat graphic of workflow learning as performance support. link to website Workflow Learning Gets Real by Jay Cross Given That Workers in most American factories spend just 20 percent of their time making…

podcast directory

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Learning Styles

link to website a very quick quiz to help determine an adults learning style with brief descriptions of the styles

Interaction, Usability and Relevance in elearning

link to website by Stephen Downes “Probably the best indicator of what works in informal e-learning is what works on the web in general. After all, this is where much informal learning is already taking place. And the web is a medium that supports informal,…

10 tips for bloggers

link to website A short article which outlines some sensible guidelines for bloggers wanting a repeat audience.