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from the UK
“Ready for Work has been designed for young people starting out and can help you make a successful transition from education into employment.
If you are in full-time education in the UK (or were within the last 12 months) and are planning to become an employee, the Ready for Work programme is […]
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from Godfrey Parkin
“Training, as we have known it, is not driven by consumer demand, has uninteresting ROI, provides really fuzzy benefits, and cannot be easily differentiated. But that can change. Education focuses on helping people know more; training focuses on helping people do more; Google focuses on helping people find out more – […]
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Screen Sharing Tools: The Best Low-Cost Solutions - June 2005 Update from Robin Good
“If you want to show your computer screen, a presentation or a set of documents to someone connected to the Internet who lives across the ocean, you need to use a “screen sharing” software or online service.”
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A working paper from acirrt at Uni of Sydney that discussed the impacts of trends in the construction industry that have changed apprenticeship patterns. These include decreased public construction organisations, the move to subcontracting, unionisation, training markets and licensing.
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“An open access, peer-reviewed, community journal on knowledge management in development - for and by development practitioners and researchers.
KM4D Journal focuses on knowledge management in development. It includes diverse knowledge management approaches in development organizations, large and small, in the South and in the North, and aims to facilitate cross-fertilization between knowledge management […]
vlog 3.0 [a blog about vogs] » link to website
From Adrian Miles
“These are the notes for the video blogging workshop that was held as a part of BlogTalk DownUnder. They consist of general notes (that won’t make a lot of sense without having attended the workshop!) and links to useful material.
The structure of the […]
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Albert Ip proposes a Maximum number of posts requirement in discussion boards for courses: “Setting a lower limit as a hurdle requirement does not promote quality and may be viewed as a requirement for the sake of a requirement.”
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From Will Richardson a Quick Start Guide to RSS in pdf format.
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this blog post from Jay Cross has a neat graphic of workflow learning as performance support.
“Knowledge is of two kinds.
We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
Quote from Samuel Johnson
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Presentation by Dr. Gary Woodill on Effective Management of Distributed Online Educational Content
list of possibilities:
1 Advising/Counseling Tools
2 Arts-based Experiential Tools
3 Automated Online Assessments
4 Blogging
5 Collaboration Tools
6 Communications Tools and Artifacts
7 Competency checklists and challenges
8 Complexity Modeling and Information Visualization
9 Computer Assisted Assessment CAA, Computer Based Assessment CBA
10 Data Mining Tools for Learning
11 Digital […]
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from Jay Cross
“Of course, this model is ever-changing to fit with shifting requirements. More appropriate for Flow Learning is a model that works over time”
This article/post includes some interesting diagrams showing the flow.
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From Ted Cocheu’s Rapid Elearning Blog
“Informal learning is essential and inevitable and trying to formalize it past a point seems counterproductive and silly. But making it more efficient by providing more specific knowledge repositories and more precise tools to access them makes a lot of sense—and the payoff, in terms of increased productivity, […]
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Stephen Downes reports on a conference presentation about elearning in call centres. The approach takes advantage of slow or down time in call volumes and focusses on 15 minute sections of learning. Through integration with other systems in the call centre, the training presented to the learner is individualised in relation to their […]
Maarten Cannaerts writes a blog called Conference Blog - Towards a learning society which records thoughts prompted by the conference. Many leads to follow up here.
