Adventures in Corporate Education

For the last two years, I have submitted an education-based idea to EMC’s Innovation Conference. Both years the idea was based on a PLE – Personal Learning Environment. Both years, I used information gleaned from the Connectivism courses to shape my ideas. Both years my idea was ignored by the selection committee (cue sad music….). [...]

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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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In my Human Performance Theory class, we have to turn in Executive Summaries (ES) and mindmaps for selected readings each week. Since I know so many people who are experts on performance, I thought I’d share what I am doing on this blog.
Background
OK, I’m doing this for selfish reasons – I know my PLE is [...]

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My mom loves telling the following story about me, to emphasize the fact that I have always been bossy. I am the oldest, and I have one brother who is 16 months younger than me and another who is 3 and a half years younger (there are seven of us in all). Apparently, we all [...]

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This question “what IS informal learning?” came up in a meeting the other day. The answer that was given was interesting – but it focused on educational technology. Today’s post will attempt to define informal, and in another post I’ll tackle some technologies that can be used to enhance informal learning.
First, a textbook definition:
a type [...]

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