Tag Archives: social spaces

Mobile Learning: day three – what do we mean by ‘mobile’?

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Work is progressing this week on my new book on ‘mobile learning’. I’m sharing some sections as they are completed. Yesterday, we looked at augmented reality, today, part of the introduction, exploring what we mean by ‘mobile’. What do we … Continue reading →

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The sense of community and the social: using virtual spaces for learning.

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Three weeks ago i started the Learning Forum as a place to develop new ideas and collaborate in discussions around learning. We have nearly eighty people so far with discussion ranging across a number of topics around ‘learning‘. The recent … Continue reading →

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Creating engagement in online learning spaces. Relevance, timeliness and sociability.

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

When you’re going to a party, it’s important to time your entry right. Get there too early and you’re stood in the kitchen talking to Charlie, the only other person to have got there early because he goes everywhere early … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaboration, Engagement, Formal Learning Spaces, Informal Learning Spaces, Learning, Online Spaces, Social Learning, Spaces | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

How to measure the success of social learning. Challenges and ideas.

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

There’s been some discussion this week about creating parameters for the measurement of the effectiveness of social learning. It’s a good call to arms, because it’s all too easy to be busy creating solutions without stopping to think of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Achievement, Assessment, Collaboration, Community, Community of Practice, Effectiveness, Engagement, Formal Learning Spaces, Game, Informal Learning Spaces, Learning, Social Learning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Floating Facebook. Who owns social learning environments and our social media lives?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

We increasingly live in social spaces online. For organising nights out with friends, to share photos of weddings, to connect with other people with an interest in gardening and to complain about the washing machine going wrong. We inhabit these … Continue reading →

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Learning in the Knowledge economy. Agility and flex as skills for survival.

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

People talk about how we are transitioning from an ‘industrial’, to a ‘knowledge’ economy, but they are wrong. We are already there. We live at a time when ‘what you know’ is secondary to ‘how you find out’. Your ability … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Formal Spaces, Informal Spaces, Knowledge, Learning | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments