Adventures in Corporate Education

I’m taking a class called Web 2.0 Learning and Performance. There are over 30 people in the class, and I’m having flashbacks to CCK08.
I may blog less here for the next few weeks as I have to keep a seperate journal for class. That journal is here.
We’ll see if I survive July — if you [...]

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This month’s Big Question from ASTD’s Learning Circuits blog is What did you learn about learning in 2008?
I started grad school in the Fall of 2007. So this year I took the following courses:

Introduction to Instructional Systems
Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (I wrote a couple of papers for this [...]

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My son, who is a sophomore at Bridgewater State College, texted me Friday. He was fuming about an incident in his Intro to Communications class. The teacher has a strict attendance policy: if you miss more than two classes you have 20% deducted from your final grade. My son attends class once a week for [...]

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The last two days EMC held its 2nd annual Innovation Conference, right in the Education Services building. I was lucky enough to be given a last-minute invite to the conference. I attended last year’s conference (as a judge, not sure how that happened!), and both times the event has been very energizing and encouraging.
You may [...]

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In one of Mike Bogle’s posts the topics of learning ecosystems and “walled gardens” comes up. The main idea I took away from his post is that now it’s so easy to make and access information. While that is a good thing, it brings up the issue of not being able to get to all [...]

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