Internet Time Blog — from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group

Barcelona

November 29, 2009

Casa Batllo (Antoni Gaudí)
I’m in Barcelona to visit my partners at CV&A and to speak on Open Social Learning at VI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning, Open University of Catalonia. Stephen Downes and George Siemens are here so I expect we’ll light some fires.

Tossa del Mar, Costa Brava
Yesterday my friend Albert Calvet [...]

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LearnTrends 2009: Balance, web 2.0, Internet Time Alliance, DAU

November 19, 2009

George Siemens began the day by challenging us to see the world as a set of trade-offs. What’s the optimal balance point?
Asking people to jot ideas on the white board, the line that divides presenter from audience began to blur. We’re all audience; we all presenters; it shifts back and forth. Few things are black [...]

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LearnTrends Tweetstream backchannel

November 18, 2009

Here’s tho conversation taking place at Twitter during LearnTrends. (We’d ask people to put their comments and questions into our conference system, where all could see them.
ScottSkibell Videos from Tues & Wed #learntrends event are up. http://ow.ly/DwZE Catch the sessions you might have missed. -4:48 PM Nov 18th, 2009

Feature | Block [...]

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

November 18, 2009

Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. The recording will be up before the day is over, but I thought you might enjoy the discussion that went with it. Twitter and chat are ubiquitous at conferences now. The back channel becomes part of the overall message.

Moderator [...]

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LearnTrends Live: Mobile Learning

November 18, 2009

Judy Brown is talking about mobile learning: it’s more that eLearning lite.
M-learning: Pervasive. Get learners to complete tasks while going about their day-to-day lives.
Laptops are mobile but not in Judy’s book. She wants something you always take with you. It’s always connected. It’s instant-on.
When is learning needed? (from Conrad Gottfredson)

When learning for the first [...]

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LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

November 17, 2009

Personal Knowledge Management
BIG KM (corporate) | Little KM | Personal KM
Lots going on. Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc.
Harold asked himself, “What is it I actually do?”
“Sorting” means filtering one’s sources.
Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly.
“Categories” are your personal folksonomy.
“Making explicit” is tagging and pigeon-holing.
“Retrieving” is recall.
“Connecting” [...]

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LearnTrends Live: Jane Hart

November 17, 2009

Jane Hart
Installs social learning system based on ELGG.
Customization. Open source. Supporting infrastructure.
Created a site where learning professionals could experiment with using ELGG
At first, people came to network. Now the system hosts courseware. It’s become SoLearn (short to Social Learning) because that’s what it’s about.
Jane walks us through SoLEARN.
Jane has installed a dozen SoLEARN environments this [...]

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LearnTrends Live: Reuters case study

November 17, 2009

Thomson Reuters
Charles Jennings
Largest information company in the world

70/20/10: 80% of learning takes place outside of class
Learning through experience: 70%
Learning from others: 20%
Learning formally: 10%
Think of your major lessons. They weren’t formal, were they?
Note: the 80/20 ratio for informal/formal was the case before networks kicked in
Social learning: sharing experiences
Jerome Bruner: difference between learning physics and being [...]

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

November 15, 2009

Two years ago, DevLearn and KM World took place simultaneously in downtown San Jose. I sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. Adobe was kind enough to pick up the tab.
2007

KM World 2009 is [...]

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Social Learning Gets Real

November 15, 2009

I always do my best work while asleep and now that I’ve slept two nights since DevLearn, here’s what I’m thinking.

The last item begs explanation. In the past, we’ve focused on individuals but work is performed by groups. Hence, I expect us to start helping groups learn to perform instead of individuals.
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