Adventures in Corporate Education

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

If the world is changing, why am I studying about the guys that sent us down the wrong path?

October 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Weird blog post title right?
I’m taking two performance courses this semester. In one of the courses we are studying the origins of Human Performance Technology (HPT). I’ve been blogging that homework (see here , here, and here). As I’ve learned about the history, I’ve had a growing feeling of unease.
I blame it on CCK08 – [...]

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Tags: Grad School Classes

Lessons learned from my Web 2.0 class: we need something NEW

August 6th, 2009 · No Comments

I just wrote my final (official) blog post for my summer class about Web 2.0. One of the biggest things I learned this semester is that we have to stop this idea that we can apply old themes and metrics and ways of doing things to these new tools.
I am not saying we need to [...]

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Tags: networked learning

Help build out a wiki about using tech to help with Asperger’s issues

July 18th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m working on the first assignment for my Web 2.0 course. I have to make an example of “produsage”. What I settled on was creating a wiki so people can share how they use technology to overcome issues that come along because of Executive Functioning deficits (here is the link to the wiki).
For example, [...]

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Tags: grad school

The Summer semester has started!

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Want to see my final projects from the Spring Semester?

April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I am done with this semester. YAY!!!
Here’s a look at the final projects for my classes.
In one class, we spent the semester carrying out a mini-study. My team looked at this question: Do people who say that they want to “live green” actually buy cleaning products that are environmentally friendly?
Here’s our final paper (its the [...]

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