Adventures in Corporate Education

or, how my graduate studies are affecting my job in corporate education

Entries Tagged as 'social_media'

It’s all about authority

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The twitterverse is all a-buzz with the news that Janet, a Twitter user who seemed to be an Exxon-Mobil employee, is not working for or on behalf of Exxon. Jeremiah Owyang interviewed Exxon’s spokesman Alan Jeffers about “Janet” here.
The thing that struck me from the interview is now this very conservative company is probably even [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · social_media

Technical Aptitude, the Digital Divide, and Learning 2.0

June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This post has been bubbling in my brain for about two weeks. Our group finally turned in our midterm project, so I have a little time to get these thoughts out of my head.
Before I start let me say something to my group. I am just using our collective painful experience to illustrate a point. [...]

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Tags: CSCL · EME6403 · Grad School Classes · corporate_training · social_media

Objections to using social media

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The Engaged Learning blog has been posting Objections to using social media for education. The last couple of days have had some interesting posts on this topic!
Objection #12 was “How Will you measure that it’s working”?  Basically, how do you go from recording each course consumed in the LMS to measuring informal learning?  He suggests [...]

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Tags: social_media · work