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The Objects of Informal Learning
We often think of informal learning as occurring in the virtual world, and given all our busy lives, it’s a central concern of the workplace. But informal learning occurs in many settings, including...
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Achievements in Learning: What We Learn from Games
I ran across an interesting article in Gamasutra (“The Cake is Not a Lie: How to Design Effective Achievements“) by Lucas Blair. Like many articles about game design, there’s lots of synergy with...
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Distributed Cognition: Supporting the Knowledge Ecosystem
Distributed cognition is a theory that seeks to model how social and technological influences intersect and influence cognition (Hutchins, 1995). According to this theory, an individual’s knowledge is...
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NOTA: Create Multimedia Notes
NOTA is a collaborative virtual notebook that allows you to collect and control the layout of multimedia assets on individual NOTA pages. The technology (or what are my powers?) NOTA allows you to add...
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Trends in gaming (more livestream blogging from Games for Change, #g4c2011)
More (hasty) livestream blogging from the Games for Change 2011 conference: This afternoon’s topic has been trends in gaming. Youth designing games Jessy Jo Gomez, an incoming student from Parsons...
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Social curation with Pinterest
It’s tool time, so today’s post is about Pinterest, a social curation tool. Pinterest is a curation platform with a specific focus: to help users collect visually rich web pages or uploaded images...
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Communities of inquiry in education and the workplace
Lipman (1991) is credited with the articulating the idea of a “community of inquiry” (COI). In a COI, “students listen to one another with respect, build on one another’s ideas, challenge one another...
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Performance, strategies, and social learning
Performance in the workplace is shaped by individual capabilities, defined roles, knowledge and skills, feedback, and a motivation loop that includes the confidence that performing leads to rewards...
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Create versatile digital booklets with Simple Booklet
Simple Booklet allows you to create media mashups in a digital booklet. The technology (or what are my powers?) When you register for free at Simple Booklet you get access to a dashboard that allows...
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A new PINOT group on optimizing cross-functional teams
PINOT is a Ning group started by Dr. Allison Rossett and Dr. Rebecca Vaughan Frazee. PINOT stands for Performance Improvement Non-Training Solutions, so the site is all about pretty much everything...
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