Roles in CoP’s Revisited: Purposes, Characteristics, & Types
(This is the second of five blog posts on online communities and their role as social learning tools.) I thought I had this post already to go a few weeks […]
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Roles in CoP’s Revisited: The Original Post
(This is the first of five blog posts on online communities and their role as social learning tools.) NOTE: I just noticed that somehow I had published an early draft […]
Information Overload!
I have a confession to make – I’ve lost control of my information sources again. But who can blame me? I currently have the following pipelines of new information that […]
The Value of Learning
Working hard is the industrial era approach to getting ahead. Learning hard is the knowledge economy equivalent. – Michael Simmons It’s not every day an article motivates and excites me. […]
Learning that 110% isn’t Good
My last post was almost two months ago. What happened? To be honest, in the spirit of Working Out Loud, I have to work on not working so hard and […]
Ahoy Matey!
I am happy to announce that I am joining Julian Stodd and his merry crew at Sea Salt Learning as an Associate Consultant. Sea Salt Learning is committed to helping […]
One Month to Go!!!
A month from today I sit for the Knowledge Exam portion of the CPLP (Certified Professional in Learning and Performance) certification process. I’ve been studying like crazy for 3 months […]
My Self-Directed Learning
One of the hot topics in Learning and Development is self-directed learning (SDL). Malcolm Knowles in 1975 defined self-directed learning as: In its broadest meaning, self-directed learning describes a process […]
Social Capital in the Social Age
I’m just finishing the Social Capital unit of Julian Stodd’s Foundations of the Social Age MOOC on Curatr. (I know, I’ve fallen woefully behind in my MOOC studies. Perhaps a […]
Tweet Chats – My Favorite New Informal Learning Technology
Ironic that until about a year ago i was the first person to say, “I don’t get Twitter. Why do people use it?” I would dismissively spout. Well not only […]
