Google Plus has been out widely for a week, and already, there are numerous articles speculating on its usefulness for education and training. We at Q2 are skeptical. Don’t get me wrong – we’re big Google aficionados here. We actually PAY the good people at Google for hosting our staff email accounts and Google Apps.
Probably from the dawn of record-keeping, there has been a tension between maintaining written records in highly structured, or relatively unstructured formats. Now that we are having so many conversations in written form, the question looms large in social media. It’s much easier to write in a stream of consciousness fashion than it is to
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,
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
There’s a fascinating formal debate taking place on The Economist site this week. The proposition put forward is: This house believes that the continuing introduction of new technologies and new media adds little to the quality of most education. Speaking to the pro side is Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of The
If the web-displayed email list is the oldest form of Web2.0 technology, the message board is probably the second-most venerable form of the read-write web. For many web denizens, the message board is their first experience with publishing their words in a world-readable place. And though some would like to think this technology too “last
There’s an interesting post on Terra Nova this week by Robert Bloomfield, entitled Will we ever see this on a Resume? Bloomfield posits a mythical “World of Bizquest” – a virtual world in which an individual interested in commercial banking could rise through various levels, learning skills which are sufficiently transferable to the real world