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Out of the shadows

E-Learning Provocateur

Employees are circumventing their company’s restrictive and frustrating IT policies with their own technology. Your employees are participating in MOOCs, even if you disagree with their pedagogy. Nonetheless, people use it. For business. I see this as a sign of the times.

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Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age

Learning with e's

Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age View more presentations from Steve Wheeler. I enjoyed a very interesting and stimulating day at Colchester Institute yesterday, where I gave two workshops for staff entitled: Communities, spaces and pedagogies for the digital age. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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The foundations of innovation in L&D

E-Learning Provocateur

There are two sides of the innovation coin in corporate learning & development: technology and pedagogy. The organisation is special in the sense that has its own products, processes, systems, policies, etc, which a third party will never cover. The former is rather obvious and is often conflated with the term innovation.

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The ‘Role’ of Compliance

Clark Quinn

Much like I really think the problem holding back better for-profit schools is that the accreditation process isn’t informed enough about pedagogy, I think the agencies that oversee required learning don’t really focus on the right thing. The first is the regulatory aspect. First of all, I think role-plays make great sense here.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

E-Learning Provocateur

Depending on the licensing policy of the content owner, a MOOC (or parts thereof) may be incorporated into an in-house offering. A MOOC can therefore facilitate the kind of cross-functional collaboration and diversity of thinking that many corporates talk about, but few ever do anything about. Blending content. Flipping classrooms.

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EDGEX 2012: About Disruptive Education

ID Reflections

I wanted this to be a blogpost on what the conference is and why I think all educators—teachers, CLOs,L&D consultants, policy makers and policy breakers, and anyone who hasanything to do with enabling others to build capability—should attend. coming together in aconference in India. But I am jumping ahead as usual.

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Competing conference contexts

Clark Quinn

There were few people who aren’t reasonably on top of tech for learning, at least conceptually, and more aware of online pedagogy. Topics at the VSS ranged a bit higher in scope, with issues about government policies, quality standards, and operational methods and assessment. mobile) and approaches (e.g. social).