Here’s an inspirational video about the changing nature of learning by replacing classroom with community and other innovative strategies. “The death of education – the dawn of learning” Stephen Heppell Originally published on reachfurther.com
Rhonas Sharpe has made a couple of posts about ELESIG (one of the academic networks I manage the online space for) on her blog. She asked members what benefit they found from the experience of being a member of the community, and got some great answers: From Esyin Chew’s “I
This is a summary by Lynn Tveskov of part of the recent discussion in the Best Practice Models community on Communities of Practice. From here this post is all Lynn’s summary: In the spirit of the practice we are setting up around public blogging about our discussion, I will put
Tony Karrer and Michele Martin have just announced the launch of Work Literacy – a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. Their goal, they say, is to “create a
There’s been an interesting discussion over at the ELESIG community (ELESIG is the HEA Special Interest Group for researchers into the learner experience of elearning),about “What was your first experience of computer technology?” and how it affected people’s subsequent ventures into using computers for work and learning. I’ve been interested
A post from 2006 in Learning Alliances defines the concept of “technology stewardship” “Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs. Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology,
There are all sorts of reasons why one wants to analyse an online community – finding out who are the busiest and most informative posters is one possible requirement. I just spotted an old article from New Scientist (well, July 2007) that describes how researchers at Cornell University, New York,
I’m the convenor of the ELKS community of practice – that’s E-Learning and Knowledge Sharing- and it’s a community of expertise in e-learning in HE, which is run for the UN’s GAID (Global Alliance for ICT in Development) initiative by BDRA out of the University of Leicester. It has several
Useful resources, especially for beginners Otis Online Tutoring e-Book NCSL’s e-learning facilitation toolkit and 70,000 heads are better than one
A community of practice defines itself along three dimensions:– What it is about – its joint enterprise as understood and continually renegotiated by its members– How it functions – mutual engagement that bind members together into a social entity– What capability it has produced – the shared repertoire of communal