Adventures in Corporate Education

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

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

Technology must be transparent

June 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In the class that I am taking this summer, we are applying group theory in education to designing an online collaborative class. This class has been very time-consuming, not because the ideas are difficult, but because our professor has not made technology we are being asked to use transparent.
So far, we have used jMAP (a [...]

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EME6403 – ASTD handout on eLearning for groups

June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I am going to start posting links that are relevant to my current grad school project. The first one is a presentation that Tony Karrer gave at ASTD yesterday. The title is “eLearning 2.0 for Personal and Group Learning”.
It outlines the basics of some of the tools we are being asked to use. It doesn’t [...]

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