Don’t fall for these adult learning myths “How to be a learning mythbuster” from Cathy Moore. Part of this is the broader problem that most people are lousy at understanding research and verifying sources. This isn’t exclusive to the learning profession. We should be better about avoiding the myths in our own field though. tags:instructionaldesign
ID and E-Learning Links (1/12/15) Read More »
Growth Engineering identified me as their weekly Learning Hero. Their very flattering description of me states: Christy is an instructional designer par excellence. Her background has been varied enough to touch all forms of education, from school teaching to corporate training. Throughout her career, she has focussed on creating the most engaging experience possible and
Over the last few days I’ve been working through Stephen Downes’ paper Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge. I often struggle to get through these longer works and actually pull anything relevant out of them, and this is definitely a longer work (over 12,000 words, just over 29 pages pasted in Word). I used Diigo to
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These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post
Now What? Beyond Networks Read More »
These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post
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These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post
Brief Intro to Social Networks Read More »
The discussion around whether learning grows or is built has been terrific. I can definitely sympathize with Sarah Stewart’s comment about enjoying the conversation even if I’m not sure I understand it all. I’ve got a nice collection of metaphors for learning now: Building: This is the classic constructivist language, constructing and building your own
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cc licensed flickr photo shared by alexmuse Via a post I found through Workplace Learning Today, Rob Wilkins asked whether “instructional designer” is really an accurate title for what we do. He suggests that “information and instruction architect” might be a better description, especially as we move to more learner control, personal learning environments, and
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