There’s a lot of chatter these days about social learning, and different interpretations of what does, and what does not comprise social learning. Here at Q2, we figure “social learning” is any kind of learning done directly from other people. While we give a nod to the reality that authors are people, and so learning
It’s happening all over the place. Even in companies where training budgets have remained relatively intact, longstanding respected instructor-led classroom programs are running into the brick wall of slashed travel budgets. Assuming that a program is delivered in the classroom as the result of careful analysis about how to best transfer the information it offers,
Much of the Web 2.0 phenomenon has featured applications which are “people-centered.” Ning, Facebook, Twitter and others feature interfaces which center around individuals, and branch out from there. I’ve written in this space before about my concerns that people-centered interfaces present some unfortunate limits to application utility, so it will unlikely surprise anyone that I’m
The Wall Street Journal is famous for being one of the few newspapers to have successfully charged for online content from the very beginning of their web presence. I can recall downloading the personal journal over a dial-up line back in the early 90’s, and still, even in now, in 2008, when mountains of decent
A recent Wall Street Journal article offers this perky teaser for an article by Kelly Spors: Use Social Media to Bond With Consumers Social-media technologies can help small firms to better connect with and market themselves to consumers and others in their industries, and they’re often free. Spors’ article is a decent survey of current
I have this nifty macbook pro laptop which I bought a couple of years ago. Like each machine I have loved, this one has quickly filled up. It started warning me about this state of affairs in January. I was able to get rid of some stuff and keep it happy for a while, but
Elliott and Cushing Anderson recently floated an email about 12 things they wanted to see in a learning system. The first was focus on the learner. What I want to see is a convergence between the way I learn, the way I work collaboratively with others – in other words, I want my online environment
As the CPsquare “Long Live the Platform” conference wraps up this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about “community” and its role within the enterprise. Community is one of those concepts debated endlessly in circles of individuals who have spent their careers involved in one way or another with computer-mediated communication. The central question among
CPsquare, the Community of Practice on Communities of Practice, is doing a month-long exploration of platforms supporting communities of practice, called Long Live the Platform. It’s an interesting exercise. So far, there have been two presentations, one by our own Bill Bruck on Q2’s xPERT eCampus and another by Bob Doyle who has put together
Proposition: The house believes that social networking technologies will bring large [positive] changes to educational methods, in and out of the classroom. So opens this week’s debate in the ongoing series at Economist.com. I find myself in substantial agreement with both Ewan McIntosh’s pro position, and with Michael Bugeja’s con position. The two men have