via Andys Black Hole: Are you seriously Mobile ??? In a post about mobile workforces, this quote caught my eye: “Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but which have the most compelling architecture of…

link to word document From the Consortium Research Program comes this series of 15 case studies of good practice in VET from John Mitchell, Clive Chappell, Andrea Bateman and Susan Roy. These could be used as excellent discussion starters with VET…

This seminar was hosted by Aesharenet and John Mitchell & Associates. Held March 24th at OTEN in Sydney. Below are a few selected quotes, ideas and suggestions, more detail in the full posts here ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on…

After lunch Louise Turnbull from OTEN spoke to us about a case study “Using technology to do our business better”. Of the 38,000 students through OTEN, all have access to online learning support, and 3,000 of those actually study online. To get to this…

After a quick coffee, we spoke around the table about the things that struck a chord with us. Our table flagged Simplicity, Sharing of IP (no value in owning content unless information is commercial in confidence, you can find duplicates of most information…

John Mitchell’s introduction included a quote from Friedman, we need to be “working smarter and smarter rather than cheaper and harder” new ideas need to be connected back to the fundamentals ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your…

Earlier in the week I participated in a mid-year workshop for Communities of Practice supported by Reframing the Future . It was a day of strong reflection about how the projects are progressing and one of the topics I found very rich was the translation of…

link to website From Knowledge Lab, Denmark, comes some streaming video interviews and a lecture by Etienne Wenger on learning, social learning theory, communities of practice and developing competence. Click on the topics listed on the page to view the…

OMN: Mentoring and Coaching Resources from the edna groups - is a wiki on this topic

link to website Dave Pollard “…began to realize that appreciating enterprises, organizations and systems as (mostly) complex rather than merely complicated is more than just a basis for re-framing business methodologies, it is a completely different way of…

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.

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

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…

eBooks.com - The Mentor’s Guide eBook The Mentor’s Guide By: Zachary, Lois J. Published By: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

> The Five Essentials of Technology Facilitators: Successful On-Site Help for Technology Integration > April 1, 2005″ href=”http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159901663″>link to website “The Five Essentials of Technology…

This report by Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Berwyn Clayton is available online from NCVER. Reading this report, many of the challenges felt familiar to comments I have heard in the VET sector. The challenges foreseen by VET practitioners who were…

From Steve Denning’s website at http://www.stevedenning.com I downloaded the first chapter of an upcoming book The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling ( pdf file ). Having recently been in planning meetings and an initital meeting of a Community of Practice at…

Working Smart: The Master Task List The purpose of developing a Master Task List is to enable you to focus more easily on those activities that really add value to your department, your division, and your company.

linkt to website 5 key KM concepts as chosen by Denham Grey are: Tacit Knowledge Corporate memory Expertise Directory Ontologies Personal Knowledge Management

link to website This brief article about public participation comes to the conclusion that “it may just be that participation is peripheral to the way most people lead their lives. They/we are mostly concerned with relationships - with friends, family,…

Ilink to website I Heard it through the Grapevine: Making knowledge management work by learning to share knowledge, skills and experience by Peter Cook Abstract This article explores the challenge of getting people to willingly share knowledge skills and…

link to website “Improving the productivity of knowledge workers is one of the most important challenges for companies that face the transition from the industrial economy to an economy based on information and knowledge (Drucker, 1999). However, most…

link to website (print friendly version) 10 Principles of Change Management By John Jones, DeAnne Aguirre, and Matthew Calderone Tools and techniques to help companies transform quickly.

link to website Robin Mason The Open University, UK Frank Rennie University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute, Lews Castle College, UK The study focuses on the potential adoption of wireless broadband in the Western Isles of Scotland, and…

Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid by Allen Weiss Questions to ask about case studies and best practice examples when applying ideas to own situation. “ Do I have the same type of customers? The subject of the case study or best practice might…

link to website by Charles Handy Excerpt “It is easy to be seduced by the technological possibilities of the virtual organization, but the managerial and personal implications may cause us to rethink what we mean by an organization. At its simplest, the…

word document here This document is a flyer for promoting the FlexiTrain centres to teachers.

Good practice database FERL | UK The good practice database contains examples of good practice found during the inspection of providers by Adult Learning Inspectorate inspection teams. Entries have media clips and links to organisations as well as how they…

link to pdf file part a link to pdf file part b by by Roger Harris; Michele Simons; Doug Hill; Erica Smith; Ron Pearce; John Blakeley; Sarojni Choy; David Snewin Executive summary “This study explored the changing role of staff development for vocational…

link to full article “…The coffee-houses that sprang up across Europe, starting around 1650, functioned as information exchanges for writers, politicians, businessmen and scientists. Like today’s websites, weblogs and discussion boards, coffee-houses were…

link to pdf file “Shaping Our Future is government and industry’s collective strategy to ensure: industry will have a highly skilled workforce to support strong performance in the global economy; employers and individuals will be at the centre of VET;…

52 page pdf file Michael Angeles Today I'm going to talk about weblogs inside my company, their use in knowledge management, and how my organization is hoping to make them usable for enterprise knowledge work if the number of blogs in the company increases…

Site Map CoP Theory Overview cute diagrams etc that pull COP theory apart. Good base level intro

link by Roger Clarke about EM Rogers Diffusion of Innovation Theory. “A broad social psychological / sociological theory called Diffusion of Innovations (DoI) Theory purports to describe the patterns of adoption, explain the mechanism, and assist in…

NAWeb 03 So - the proposal: a multidisciplinary educational simulation archive. This would be a library of simulatioins built by a consortium of universities. They would have a common API. And they would be designed to be inserted into Word documents and…

Sloan-C Dr. Joan D. McMahon Towson University, MD Dr. Neil Davidson University of Maryland, College Park, MD “I could never teach online,” Neil said. “I like being able to reach my students individually.” “I feel I can reach them and connect with them online…

link Knowledge is paradoxical, the more we seek it, the more escapes us, the more we contain it the more it evaporates, the more we render it sophisticated, the more it simplifies itself. It’s study returns us to the question of our own awareness. Baumard,…