Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review
© 2008 John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. Text illustrations © 2008 Susan E. Haviland. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32 John Seely Brown and Richard P. John Seely Brown is a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC) and Independent Co-Chairman of a New Deloitte Research Center. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. —Sir John Daniel, 1996 The world has become increasingly “flat,†as Tom Friedman has shown. If access to higher education is a necessary element in expanding economic prosperity and improving the quality of life, then we need to address the problem of the growing global demand for education, as identified by Sir John Daniel.3 Compounding this challenge of demand from college-age students is the fact that the world is changing at an ever-faster pace. Social Learning vs.
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Social Networking: Bridging Formal and Informal Learning by Clark N. Quinn
"The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections between people who can help one another. And we can distribute that support between employees, partners, or customers. You can see real benefits, but you’ve got to have a way to think about them!" There’s been much justifiable excitement about social media recently; are you on top of it? The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections between people who can help one another. And we can distribute that support between employees, partners, or customers. There are lots of social networking tools with weird-sounding names: blogs, wikis, Twitter (also known as micro-blogs), Ning, Facebook, and more. Things are not getting slower: we are seeing decreasing time to market for products and services, more information coming in, and fewer resources with which to cope. Informal learning payoffs in real life What’s the value of a discussion? Issues
Building a Performance Ecosystem
By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. The competitive landscape is more dynamic than ever, and the defining success factors have shifted. Things are moving faster, and organizations have to be more nimble, responding to changes in their audiences, competitors and the context of work. Former Thomson Reuters CLO Charles Jennings highlights the 70:20:10 framework for thinking about organizational learning: 10 percent of what we need to know to do our jobs comes from courses, 20 percent from mentoring or coaching, and 70 percent is learned on the job through independent initiative. Lots of the opportunities to improve come through the network, through the people we learn with and from. The Coherent OrganizationThis is called the coherent organization.
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5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience – and it’s not about the tools
There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tools has simply been “bolted-on” or “shoe-horned” into existing training or e-learning practices, in which case it doesn’t tend to work very well at all. Firstly, those who are very Social Web-aware don’t like to be forced to “be social” in a way that has been defined for them, and those who are not yet familiar with the Social Web, don’t like to be forced to use unfamiliar tools they are not comfortable with. The whole point about social tools is that they are fundamentally “enabling” tools not “command and control” tools. “Organising” – and I use that word loosely – a formal social learning experience therefore involves 5 key principles” So what’s the best name for this type of formal online social learning experience? ideal.
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Study: Millennials Prefer Traditional Classrooms Over Online Ones
Students are warming up to virtual education, but according to a new study, they still believe it's easier to learn in a traditional classroom. Millennial Branding, a Generation Y consulting firm, and online marketplace Internships.com, conducted an online survey in May in which they asked 1,345 college students in the United States about their views on the future of education. The study found almost 53% of students polled agree that "online colleges are a reputable form of education," but only 43% think an online classroom can match or surpass the quality of a traditional one. The students polled were from a random sample among Internships.com's millions of registered users. About 36% of students said that online learning benefits the balance between work and class. Despite millennials' lukewarm opinions about online education, 39% still foresee education becoming more virtual. Millennials understand that the future of education is online and since they were brought up with the internet
Disrupting the Diploma
