Having read a lot about knowledge management and knowledge wealth, I have a favorite quote regarding the topic:
A burden shared is a burden halved; an intellectual asset shared is one doubled.
I love that! Talk about a return on investment. Who doesn’t want that kind of action?
Yet, it never ceases to amaze me how companies allow [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Plug The Hole In The Knowledge Dam
Posted in Articles, tagged Knowledge Management on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bring Back The Word “Sticky”
Posted in Articles, tagged learning on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was telling a friend about the various projects and solutions I work on. When I brought up online learning and performance management, I used the word “sticky”.
“Wow, now that is a word I haven’t heard since the early days of the Web,” my friend exclaimed.
I knew what he was referring to. Sticky was a [...]
NextGen eLearning And World Of Warcraft®
Posted in Articles, tagged Collaboration, Community, eLearning, Entertainment, Games on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
eLearning, Community development, Technology, and Fun — all these impact and work together in changing the exciting landscape of online learning for the next generation. Often, I talk with organizational leaders who look puzzled when I start discussing the unification of these practices. Most take each of the areas above and put them in separate [...]
Why eLearning Can Be Bigger
Posted in Articles, tagged eLearning on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Progressively over the years online learning has become more attractive and more strategic. Big and small businesses alike have seen the value in training via the Web. Below is an excerpt from the eLearning Blog:
Learning is big business…
First of all because of the ever existing gap between knowledge and skills you gather at school and [...]
Entertainment And The Educational Impact
Posted in Articles, tagged Education, edutainment, Entertainment on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. – Walt Disney
Why is there even a debate about the effects of entertainment on culture? I have heard some big businesses say, “TV and movies have no effect on people,” and [...]
Are There Benefits to Online Games And Learning?
Posted in Articles, tagged Collaboration, Game-based Learning on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Brunel University School of Sport and Education finished a three year study of the effects and benefits of online games on youth. Their findings? That youth between the ages of 11-18 benefited from online gaming by developing key learning skills. Using the over nine million member RuneScape as their lab, Brunel noted the following:
The [...]
8 Mythbusters For Translating Your Content For A Global Audience
Posted in Articles, tagged global audience, languages on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Going Global” can be the Midas touch or death touch of any organization. Understanding the unique aspects of language and culture is time consuming to say the least. In an effort to “get to market” quickly, many companies and non-profits overlook (and sometimes hop over) the requirements for a successful launch into other countries.For those [...]
Measuring Success: Does the Learner Matter?
Posted in Articles, tagged eleanring guild, Instructional Design, measuring success on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I continue to complete a variety of different eLearning projects, I often look back and think about how successful these projects were. My tendency is to focus on issues like:
Did the client want to strangle me during the project or at the end, did I get a group hug?
Did we conduct a few more [...]
Technology-Assisted Collaboration
Posted in Insights, tagged Collaboratoin, Jay Cross, Web 2.0 on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Learning Circuits recently published an interesting article by Jay Cross, called Implementation 2.0. The article discusses how to effectively collaborate using Web 2.0 technologies. This article and others by Jay Cross are excellent resources into using Web 2.0 technologies for learning and collaboration.
You can find the Learning Circuits article at http://www.learningcircuits.org/0108_cross.htm
