A suggestion from Avi Charkham:
When I learn at work I need posts of no more than 20-30 lines. I want a quick in/quick out situation where I can snap up a bit of information and go on. It would help if long posts would be split, not randomly but according to some logical structure.
The way we think Continue reading
Roaming around the dusty corners of the net this afternoon, I came upon this incediary quote:
Nestling warm and sleepy in your company, like the asp in Cleopatra’s bosom, is a department whose employees spend 80% of their time on routine administrative tasks. Nearly every function of this department Continue reading
Here’s a simpler rendition of what I was trying to ask yesterday.
Learning consists of people interacting with other people and with stuff. Learning professionals work on improving connections, having the right information on tap, and opening up the conduits to the sources of learning. They focus Continue reading
Here’s an oversimplified view of a learning ecosystem. Bear with me.
A learner interacts with stuff through what I’ll call pipes and with people through relationships. A net connection is one form of pipe; webpages and other information are stuff. Interactions with people and stuff lead to learning.
Optimal Continue reading
The inaugural issue of Human Resource Executive Online contains an article by Christopher Cornell entitled Best of the Bloggers. “Human resource Web logs are popping up everywhere. We scoured the net to find the best, most informative examples.”
Learning/Training
Eelearning; http://eelearning.typepad.com. Continue reading
“Better not think about it then.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Killers
New Scientist reports that
Complex decisions are best left to your unconscious mind to work out, according to a new study, and over-thinking a problem could lead to expensive mistakes.
This is in sync with Malcolm Gladwell’s observation Continue reading
A year from now, soothsayers at symposiums will be sharing their wisdom that “as for Learning 2.0, it’s not the 2.0 that matters; it’s the learning.” Why wait? I’ll tell you right now that Learning 2.0 is a useless term. It does not add meaning to the conversation.
Several years ago, a manager Continue reading
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Kevin Oakes has stepped down as president of SumTotal.
Yesterday morning friends began emailing me that my blogs, this one and informl.com, were down. I called my ISP’s tech support. A fellow told me they were aware of the problem: the control panel server was down. This apparently severed the connection between my blogs and their MySQL databases. Not to Continue reading
