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Archive for October, 2007

Content management

The world is changing (again). I spent years designing and authoring web pages, and now I find that I spent a lot of extra time for naught. Now we have wordpress and other open source providers who offer this easy to use interface for basically instant websites. Now that I have played around with this [...]

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Elearning/KM

What is the connection between Elearning and Knowledge management? Is knowledge what is generated by learning, or is learning the process of disseminating knowledge? Does it even make sense to divide them at all? If both elearning and KM are in the service of improved work practices, then project work must also [...]

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Elearning self-talk

Effective elearning? It’s perhaps a combination of individual learning empowerment (“I have the time to direct my own learning”) and the environmental messages from the organization (these are indirect and subtle, not the “we’re a learning organization” stuff) that say learning is the right thing to do around here. Those cues [...]

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Slack time

The classic example of a learning culture is 3M’s 15% rule, which traditionally said that each employee could allocate 15% of their time to enrichment/learning/skunkwork activities that would develop them as a better employee.
In the university setting, we often think back, some of us nostagically, to the slack time we had [...]

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Learning Culture

Can organizations create learning cultures, that is, an organization that is primed for, accepts, and benefits visibly from learning and elearning initiatives? If so, what would that culture look like? Can we come up with any examples of a learning culture?
One way to approach this topic is to think about [...]

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