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Blogging in a Walled Garden

Experiencing eLearning

In that course, one of the most successful activities is student-led blog discussions, where each week two or three students start a conversation on a topic they care about by posting on their blogs. This makes the default view more like an aggregator than a typical blog. Posted in Blogging, LMS, Read/Write Web.

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Social Learning Ought to be Story-Sharing: "Friends You Haven't Met Yet"

Vignettes Learning

Friends You Haven't Met Yet" A recent experience during a visit to USC Center for Creative Technologies helped me tie a bow on this issue. We spoke about ICT's Story Web Blog Project. Army, they compiled 33 million web blogs that use personal stories. But how do you align their discussions with your content?

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Evolution of L&D - Some more thoughts

ID Reflections

I recently wrote a post on the Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace which made me a part of a discussion happening half-way around the world and of which I had been so far unaware. Suddenly, I was part of a larger discussion and debate with people of similar passion and interest. What makes business think it’s a skill-gap issue?