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But, he also linked to a great post: The Individual is the New Group - where he points out that the classic notion of groupware has been falling out of favor and instead the concept of soloware with extension for collaboration (think blog vs. discussion group) is gaining adoption.
Focusing on job roles, teams, collaboration sounds like a heavy, groupware type approach that is going to take too much work and be too inflexible if you ever get it done. Further, the fact that he's suggesting that they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two cycles behind.
Collaboration : Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware, workgroup support systems or simply group support systems) is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. Most enterprise 2.0 Social Learning : Social learning is what it sounds like—learning with and from others.
Here's the abstract for my chapter, which discusses wiki cultures and Darwikianism (the survival of the fittest - or most accurate - wiki pages): The use of group oriented software, or groupware, encourages students to generate their own content and can foster supportive and dynamic communties of learning.
Example: Rumor has it that Groupware was started as a series of custom projects Lotus was doing for one of its big installations of Notes. Your competitor introduces new sub-features that are of the “arms race&# nature (more, more, more!)
Instead of forcing people into predetermined groups like groupware does, social software facilitates the natural formation of groups based on spontaneous, contextual needs for interaction. Affiliation through personal choice: "Peer production is the most efficient method for creating value from a resource allocation point of view.
E-learning systems may also feature video conferencing, email, blogs, wikis, newsgroups, chat rooms, and groupware to improve communications. To conclude. CBT has proven to be an effective training tool in a variety of settings.
They could have encouraged rather than neglected the potential of the expensive and hard to deploy groupware (Lotus Notes) they began investing in during the 90s. They could have looked at questions of corporate architecture (some did, by the way, but not necessarily with the conscious idea of stimulating informal professional exchange).
The “Community&# topic turned out to cover many potential topics: collaboration. learning with peers. social software apps. discussion groups and wikis. Communities of Practice. informal learning. reputation management. expert locators. corporate culture. social network analysis. While these topics differ, they’re all related.
“Contrast that with the groupware approach to things where people are placed into groups defined organizationally or functionally.&#. “The pendulum seems to be swinging from an institutional, top-down model to an individual, or bottom-up, model,&# he said.
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