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"Active listening is an essential skill. Learn how becoming a better listener can increase your productivity, and improve your relationships." This is an essential skill for professional trainers, educators, and adult learning specialists.
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"Open Access - By Peter Suber NOW AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE OPEN ACCESS FORMATS ... The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue. In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber’s influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers." -- from source: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
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"Conversation is the lubricant to knowledge exchange and, in the right hands, or is that mind or mouth, it is the most valuable knowledge management tool available today. The problem is that so many people do a bad job of it. They don’t think about the structure of their face-to-face or text based conversations and they are not making the most of the best free knowledge management tool available to them. Here are six tips to get your conversations and knowledge flowing (this comes from a range of work, but credit for shaping this blog should go to Loren Ekroth, a conversation specialist in the US)" -- from source: http://knowcademy.com/
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Army exempts some training from hiring freeze Washington Post That exception also covers employees in long-term training who have placement rights after completing that training, new guidance says.
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"What does this mean? Well, John divides KM projects into two groups, judged by the broader goals the project is designed to accomplish (separated by a Big K and little k, to be exact). “Little k” projects aim to capture new knowledge gleaned through solving customer problems and sharing them with employees and customers, while “Big K” projects are much more broad. In our area of expertise, which John defines as “Big K,” we’re finding that organizations are truly struggling to keep track of information housed in an increasingly diverse and populated amount of internal and external systems. This means that KM projects are always ongoing; the systems in place to house relevant knowledge are never fully up to date." from source: http://www.customerthink.com/blog/
Coggle is designed to help you make sense of complex things. It's a shared workspace to help your team work more effectively together. You can store and share information structured in the same way that you think, and make sure that knowledge is effectively transferred and preserved.
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"Google has launched (literally) Project Loon because two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. Project Loon starts this month with an experimental pilot in New Zealand, with the launch of 30 balloons which will beam Internet to a small group of pilot testers. The experience of these pilot testers will be used to refine the technology and shape the next phase of Project Loon." from source: http://www.whatsnextblog.com/
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"THE LEARNING PRACTICE, founded by Melodie Hicks, serves organizations by engaging professionals in unique, rigorous and transformative programs that support individuals and groups on their learning journeys. THE LEARNING PRACTICE offers innovative programs with three complementary goals: personal insight; new knowledge; and skill building. We use techniques grounded in empirically established learning principles. By guiding participants through a process of discovery, giving equal focus to building personal insight and inspiration, subject knowledge, and skills and techniques, we support participants to shape their own learning. One of the core goals of a learning program is to support the individual’s learning process, and because no two situations or participants are the same, THE LEARNING PRACTICE collaborates extensively with clients to tailor each program to their specific needs." from source: http://thelearningpractice.com/
Digital data stem from our own personal and social cognitive processes and thus express them in one way or another. But we still don’t have any scientific tools to make sense of the data flows produced by online creative conversations at the scale of the digital medium as a whole.
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"Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, is launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) initiative designed to provide students who are interested in learning more about IT, an informal learning environment within an open forum. As a leader in the education and networking field, Enterasys is offering technical education classes at no cost. The courses provide technical skills achievement in fundamental areas around IP data networking, wireless technologies and security concepts -- all key areas of recognized growth within the IT space. Unlike traditional MOOCs, the Enterasys MOOC is self-paced and students can attend the weekly scheduled module when it is best for them." from source: http://online.wsj.com/
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Independent news source & thought center for the online education community.
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Interesting case study on a very advanced custom eLearning development. Particularly the nice flow diagram that describes the complex decision branching for the different screens based on the user scenario.
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"Future Trends in Technology and Education is a monthly report. It surveys recent developments in how education is changing, primarily under the impact of digital technologies. Its purpose is to help educators, policy-makers, and the public think about the future of teaching, learning, research, and institutions. Every month FTTE aggregates recent developments, checking them against previously-identified trendlines. As certain trends build in support and significance, the report recommends watching them for future impact. FTTE also notes trends which appear to be declining in significance." -- from source: http://bryanalexander.org/
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Virtual training, real results Shreveport Times Aircrew personnel steer parachutes during a simulation at Barksdale Air Force Base in late May. The parachute simulator can be programmed to put aircrew members in multiple scenarios.
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This detailed analysis and chart of every single learning theory is worth zooming in and studying. (A visual guide to every learning theory.
What about all of the knowledge and information acquired by an organization and its employees in the normal course of business? Should this information be shared?
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES, Dr. Dan Kirsch
"Google has launched (literally) Project Loon because two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. Project Loon starts this month with an experimental pilot in New Zealand, with the launch of 30 balloons which will beam Internet to a small group of pilot testers. The experience of these pilot testers will be used to refine the technology and shape the next phase of Project Loon." from source: http://www.whatsnextblog.com/
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"You know I am a firm believer in business led Knowledge Management Strategy. At a meeting yesterday, I saw this presented in a very striking and visual way, through the use of a Strategy Map. A strategy map is a pretty well established way of mapping out the strategy of a company in a visual way, The approach was invented by Bill Kaplan, and is well described in this HBR article (from which the example to the right - a strategy map of Volvo Dealership - is taken). A strategy map can be linked to Balanced Scorecard, and can be used to explain why a company is choosing the initiatives that it has." from source: http://www.nickmilton.com/
"Compared with how academic research was carried out in the pre-internet era, It seems like technology is really a godsend gift to researchers. From easy and unlimited access to journal articles to web tools that do the referencing and auto-syncing, everything has been digitized making it way easier for todays researchers to add to the body of the human knowledge than any time in history."
Via Susan Bainbridge
Edited by Jay Liebowitz and Michael S Frank: "The book's first part looks at KM practices in e-learning and covers techniques and methodologies. The second part contains several case studies looking at applications of KM to e-learning in businesses, government agencies, and universities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., and Europe. The book concludes with a summary of future trends by experts at these organizations. This book ties knowledge management (KM) with e-learning as complementary approaches, highlighting the leading and emerging work being accomplished in this space. These chapters explain knowledge capture, retention, transfer, and sharing." http://c69.co/13968517
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12 Principles Of Collaboration In Learning Recently on westXdesign–via scoopit–we found an interesting graphic about naming 12 principles of collaboration.
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If your particular interest is reports on the future of higher education, you will not be starved of material. All over the developed world in particular there have over recent years been numerous inquiries into higher education ...
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RT @raamatuid: Free online MOOC on Librarianship from Syracuse iSchool. Click to register! http://t.co/bRX8qNEmoK
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If you are looking for a good and safe alternative to Drobox or Box.net here is one: Owncloud is an open source software which you can install on your own web server and which provides you not only with full file storage and sharing capabilties, but also with the ability to connect directly to other file storage services and to run HTML5 apps.
Excerpted from the Techcrunch review: "OwnCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net."
"The core ownCloud offering is file storage and synchronization. You also get optional contacts and calendar synchronization, if you want to use it. As an open source application, you can install it on any computer you control. This means you know how and where your data is stored, something which existing hosted solutions abstract away from you. Individuals and enterprises can install ownCloud on their own hardware, and define access policies according to their own needs."
"...the ownCloud mobile client can automatically upload pictures taken from your phone."
"...ownCloud can be connected to third-party storage like Dropbox or Google Drive or even an FTP server. These are read-write connections, allowing you to use third-party storage in whatever ways make sense for you..."
"...ownCloud supports HTML5 applications, allowing you to add all sorts of additional functionality. The ownCloud app catalog has dozens of apps."
(Source: Techcrunch)
Overview: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-overview
Download and subscriptions: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-subscriptions
Find out more: https://owncloud.com/
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