The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

Imagine…
Each of us had the facility to access a personalised version of the types and diversity of information and knowledge on display in Times Square, NY. Is this the ultimate immersive learning environment?
Ten years ago, who would have though you could “Broadcast Yourself” a la YouTube? There is a booth on W44th St that allows [...]

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This month’s Learning Circuits Blog Big Question is “For a given project, how do you determine if, when and how much an instructional designer and instructional design is needed?”
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I wonder how many of you are familiar with this situation? A PowerPoint presentation and demonstration script for some end-user training on a certain process arrived [...]

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Looking specifically at learning in the workplace, Michael Eraut in Non-formal learning, implicit learning and tacit knowledge (2000) makes a clear distinction between his interpretation of the term ‘non-formal learning’ and what others including Scribner (1988), Conner (2002) and Cross (2003) would call ‘informal learning’ – what Eraut terms ‘incidental learning’ or ‘the acquisition of [...]

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As discussed in a previous blog entry, one of the central components of the impact of learning (and specifically the development of knowledge workers’ expertise in organisations) is the context within which the learning takes place. A central pillar of this discussion is the type or format of the learning taking place. In the literature, [...]

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Well, I had to redefine all learning in order to write the book because the world is changing so fast. The concepts we had when knowledge was fixed in place, like something you could put in a library, don’t work anymore. So I look at all learning as adaptation to the communities that matter to [...]

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