Adventures in Corporate Education

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

Building a Learning Community – What we’re doing

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

I just finished my class meeting, and saw this posted by @courosa:
Pursuing the elusive metaphor of community in e-learning environments
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This presentation is about community and eLearning. It talks about non formal and informal learning. I really wish I had been able to hear that presentation!
We’ve been working on building that [...]

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Tags: Proven Professional

Wrapup: How people use blogging to learn

December 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I promised to write a summary of the responses I received to this post on blogging as reflective practice, so here it is (better late than never!).
Not only did I write about blogging as a mechanism for learning on this blog, I wrote about it on EMC’s internal social media site (EMC|ONE) as well. Here [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · blogging

Fun with Dick & Carey in the real world

November 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This semester I am taking a class called “Introduction to Instructional Design”. We are stepping through Dick, Carey & Carey’s textbook The Systematic Design of Instruction. The book examines the Dick and Carey model of instruction in detail. Here’s a diagram of that model (click the picture to see a larger version):

As with all models [...]

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Tags: instructional design

Networks – CCK08

September 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This week has been about networks in the CCK08 course. I haven’t posted or responded much to posts. My excuses:

End of the quarter at work
Group at school is non-technical, I’m practicing positive inter-dependence and helping them

But I have been reading, and thinking, and talking about the information flowing through the CCK08 network about networks. Valdis [...]

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Tags: CCK08