Social Learning Systems

2010 in Review Part 1: Top 10 C4LPT resources

Jane Hart's year-end review

 

"As 2010 draws to an end I am going to be a writing a number of postings with my review of the year. Here in Part 1 I present the Top 10 resources at the main Centre for Learning & Performance Website (C4LPT) in 2010  This list has been generated based on number of accesses to resources, as well as number of tweets and comments about the resources; it is displayed in reverse order."

Read the full article here.

via janeknight.typepad.com

The Differentiator

 
A great tool -

Pick the Thinking Skill.

Pick a way to Differentiate Content.

Pick a Resource.

Pick a Product for Students to Create.

Pick a Group Size for Student Group Work. 

Fabulous!

Here is a direct link to the tool.

 

via www.byrdseed.com

Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom

Please add contributions to Jane Hart's new category for ages 5-18.

Her directory is wonderful!

"Directory of Learning Tools called Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom - that is those tools and platforms particularly targeted at or useful for learners aged 5-18."

via janeknight.typepad.com

Read the article here.

 

BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE: THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD TUFTE | Fine Art Auction | Search Results | Christie's

Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte

Infographic god Edward Tufte's personal library up for auction. Some awesome stuff

via www.christies.com

See the items here.

 

21st Century Skills | Home

An important book for education...

 

In 21st Century Skills, Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel tell why and how the global landscape for learning is reshaping itself, and what this global transformation, often called the “21st century skills movement”, may bring to a school near you. Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, this book and DVD vividly illustrate the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world:

• Learning and innovation skills


• Digital literacy skills


• Life and career skills

via www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com

Bernie Trilling: I Just Want my kid to be Happy... and Successful

Great Article from Bernie Trilling...

Read the entire article here.

 

There is growing agreement worldwide, from educators, business and government leaders (see for example www.p21.org), that the formula for success in our times involves fusing the "3Rs" -- the traditional basic knowledge-and-skills of reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and other subjects like science and social studies -- with the "4Cs":

• Critical thinking and problem-solving
• Creative thinking and innovating
• Communicating
• Collaborating

via www.huffingtonpost.com

Twitter Tips for Corporate Learning

One of the most common misconceptions about Twitter is that people are just posting what they had for breakfast and other miscellaneous (dare I say useless?) facts. Well, those people are out there, but the fact is, they are likely not a part of the numerous substantive conversations taking place on Twitter. 
 
Twitter offers you the opportunity to curate a community in which you can share bite-size, high-value tweets as part of an ongoing conversation around a particular topic. So how does this apply to corporate learning? A few uses just off the top of my head…
 

• Have learners “livetweet” classroom training
• Set up a course “hashtag” so participants can keep conversation going
• Have learners identify and “follow” virtual mentors to learn from
• Network, share best practices and find answers to your greatest HR and training challenges

via blog.blackboard.com

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One of the most common misconceptions about Twitter is that people are just posting what they had for breakfast and other miscellaneous (dare I say useless?) facts. Well, those people are out there, but the fact is, they are likely not a part of the numerous substantive conversations taking place on Twitter. 
 
Twitter offers you the opportunity to curate a community in which you can share bite-size, high-value tweets as part of an ongoing conversation around a particular topic. So how does this apply to corporate learning? A few uses just off the top of my head…
 

• Have learners “livetweet” classroom training
• Set up a course “hashtag” so participants can keep conversation going
• Have learners identify and “follow” virtual mentors to learn from
• Network, share best practices and find answers to your greatest HR and training challenges

How Long Does it Take to Create Learning? (2010 Research)

by Bryan C on September 14, 2010

Research Participants: 249 companies organizations, representing 3,947 learning development professionals, who have created content consumed by 19,875,946 learners.

All results are shown as ratios, showing number of hours of development to create 1 finished hour of learning (output)

 

We just completed a large-scale study and encourage you to use the results to benchmark and help improve your own internal development practices (see below):

How Long Does it Take to Create Learning?

via brandon-hall.com

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Make sure to check out the newest info on course development ratios. Extremely useful for anyone managing the development of traditional classroom and/or web-based training materials.

An Introduction to Social Media - Jane Hart's Great Resource

Jane Hart provides a fabulous resource about Social Media on her C4LPT (Centre for Learning and Performance Technology) site.

Check out this fabulous reference!

Introduction to Social Media

Goodbye to the Office - Seth Godin

 I enjoyed this article by Seth Godin. For years, I have worked in partly or fully remote roles and have managed staff located in various locations around the world. I am amazed that there are still many managers and executives that don't "trust" the idea that employees can be perfectly productive (maybe even more productive) without commuting and sitting in "the" office all day.

Seth provides some excellent points about WHY we work in offices in the first place, and why, in the 21st Century, this doesn't make nearly as much sense as it did before.

SETH's BLOG - GOODBYE TO THE OFFICE