Technology and emerging practices in organisational learning & development
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2010
In partnership with Tonkin Academy, I will be running 2 day workshops in Sydney and Melbourne in August 2010 and March 2011. The title of the workshops is Social Media Learning Solutions. Session titles include social learning theory, exploring options, business value proposition and project planning. Day 2 is an opportunity for participants to deeply [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2009
For many of my clients the buzz word is “collaboration”. Sharepoint, Lotus Connections and Confluence wikis are just a few of the enterprise platforms espoused to support and enhance project collaboration. Of course, simply implementing a technology does not ‘make’ collaboration happen, especially online. Wenger, White and Smith have published Digital Habitats. One of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2009
I attend the Learning Technologies Conference when I can because it keeps me honest. The room is full of 200 passionate educators all striving to best apply learning technologies to their milieu to improve student engagement and learning outcomes. The audience are chiefly teachers in institutions where courses are mandatory and students are working towards [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2009
The following is what I gleaned from speakers and subject to interpretation. To read their papers, please click here. Day one of the Learning Technologies Conference began with insights from Nancy White. Additions from yesterday’s workshop for me include: Some people get what they need by being solo. I appreciated this validation, but I’m interested [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2009
Here I am in sunny Mooloolaba, at my 4th Learning Technologies Conference. A ‘must attend’ for any learning practitioner interested in understanding the education value of learning technologies. I attended the pre-conference workshop facilitated by Nancy White. Not only an engaging and validating facilitator, Nancy was generous in sharing her insights into online community stewardship. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2009
As an organisation develops their e-learning strategy, an important component is to ensure a shared understanding of learning philosophy and quality standards also evolves. What will be the quality standards to which we measure success? What is the quality standards we wish our L&D department to be measured against? What is our shared understanding of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008
I often work with organisations who have implemented an enterprise wiki. And it’s been interesting to observe an assumption that online collaboration exists because the wiki exists. What is collaboration? Collaboration is to work together in joint effort to achieve a mutually aspired outcome. A wiki provides the infrastructure for collaboration to occur because of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2007
Developing my research focus: Business leaders agree in principle that collaboration technologies will enable new and important business processes, but: 1. What is meaningful collaboration (& meaningful to whom?) 2. What could online collaboration processes look like insitu of workflow? 3. How could these be successfully integrated into business? 4. What are the variables? 5. [...]
