Pulled from the bowels of BB … What can instructional designers (IDers) do to facilitate and enhance the process of knowledge "transfer"? I think it is important to for us (designers, teachers, etc) to get beyond conceiving of training as an "intervention" to address a problem (gap in performance, attitude, etc). Rather than focusing on…
After spending the afternoon at the Maker Lab in the Chicago Public Library, I stuck around to see Austin Kleon during his Chicago stop on his press tour for his new book, Keep Going. I enjoyed his prior book (Show your Work) so much that I built an entire course around the major themes called…
Wow. I grabbed some sleep last night and woke to see this inspiring piece from Steven Downes. Seems the online learning world has once again rallied (gosh, net neutrality, then DOPA and now the Blackboard patent) and is quickly getting its collective ducks in a row pulling together a historical "prior art" record (see links…
Something small, every day. Here. h/t Austin Kleon
As I wrote about on a prior post, Writely.com is a great browser based collaboration tool. Late last week, it was gobbled up by Google.