Adventures in Corporate Education

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

July’s Big Question: New Skills for Learning Professionals

July 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

July’s big question is very timely for me! Here is the question:
In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?
This week my Web 2.0 Learning and Performance [...]

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Tags: big question

Lessons I learned from my summer class

August 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you follow me on twitter, you are probably very well aware of my rough ride in my summer class. So, my final paper has been handed in, and I have been mulling over what I can take away from this experience. This may turn into more than one post, but I think it’s important.
We [...]

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Tags: EME6403

Learning 2.0, should you do small wins, or wait till it’s “cooked”?

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tony Karrer suggests going for the small wins, specifically by taking the following steps:

“implement a small Wiki that has performance support materials that goes along with your eLearning on that new software application
at first have it only editable by the authors
then open it up to edit the FAQ and Common Issue pages by your help [...]

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Tags: corporate_training

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

Costs to Learning 2.0

June 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I started writing this as a comment to a post on the Silence and Voice blog. That post is about where are all these users who are supposedly chomping at the bit to use Web 2.0 in educational settings? My comment was getting so long I decided to turn it into a blog post.
I want [...]

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Tags: corporate_training