178 Modern Professional Learning: Guidelines & Resources
Jane Hart
JUNE 13, 2017
Modern Professional Learning: Guidelines and Resources to survive and thrive in the modern workplace. New article in the MWL Magazine. Social learning
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Social Computing Guidelines and Why You Would Still Need Them
Luis Suarez
DECEMBER 17, 2015
I know what you are thinking, here we are, already passed through 2015, and we still need guidelines? We no longer talk about rules, but guidelines. Now, let’s have a look into what it would be like not having those social guidelines in place.
7 guidelines for managing open networks
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Ed Morrison , Advisor for the Purdue Center for Regional Development, says that many of the familiar approaches to management no longer apply, and goes on to provide 7 keys to guiding an open network. I have added my images and one other that support this excellent set of rules.
Computer Use Guidelines
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 29, 2012
Responding to Alfred Thompson's Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics : Leaving aside the questionable wisdom of framing generic advice within a construct specific to a certain religion. The commandments say, essentially, "don't take or use other people's stuff without permission," which is OK in itself, but the way it is repeated over and over reveals an unhealthy fixation on property rights, to the exclusion of almost all else.
Teaching in the Digital Age: Guidelines for Designing Teaching and Learning
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 16, 2017
Summary notes from the Tony Bates presentation at the World Conference on Online Learning , Toronto. Building an Effective Learning Environment What is knowledge, and how does learning occur. Analogy: coal.
How Fun and Creativity Can Shape Your Own Social Computing Guidelines and Policy
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
I remember the day when IBM was first facing that very same issue , on whether to put together a social computing policy and guidelines or not.
Does Your Organization Have Social Media Guidelines for All Staff?
Beth Kanter
MARCH 20, 2013
We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n
First School District to Stop Penalizing for Late Work!
Nine Shift
MAY 15, 2014
The new guidelines for Denton, Texas, Independent School District, clearly outline there is to be no penalty for late work. Thanks to NineShifter Djuna Forrester for telling us about the first school district to stop penalizing students for late work.
Confused Reader Disputes E.U. Law
Nine Shift
JULY 29, 2018
We had to file a statement regarding privacy that met the guidelines in the E.U. A confused reader disputed our post on July 23 that Americans would be protected under the new European Union law. .
Corporate Policies on Web 2.0
Tony Karrer
MAY 21, 2008
use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools. And most corporate guidelines out there around social media are fairly similar. I think IBM's policy is a pretty good starting point: IBM Social Computing Guidelines Other company policies or discussions of guidelines I've seen around blogging, social media, web 2.0:
Paid content needs REALLY BIG metadata
David Weinberger
JULY 22, 2013
HBR.com has just put up a post of mine about some new guidelines for “paid content.” ” The guidelines come from the PR and marketing communications company Edelman, which creates and places paid content for its clients. Short version: Edelman paid for a day of consulting on the guidelines. And, no, that didn’t include me agreeing to write about the guidelines).
Some basic rules for napkin-sketching
Dave Gray
DECEMBER 12, 2008
minutes) video with a few guidelines for making better napkin sketches: 1. Here is a short (3.5 Ground line 2. Center(s) of gravity 3. Connect figure to ground 4. Big-to-little 5. Draw through and over I hope you enjoy it
Math in the Brain: Change from 2nd to 3rd Grade
Eide Neurolearning
AUGUST 15, 2011
As the developmental steps for problem solving become clearer, expect more developmental guidelines guiding curriculum. From Stanford comes this study looking at the difference in brain fMRI patterns of 2nd vs. 3rd graders working on arithmetic.
Autonomy and Value in Social and Workplace Learning
Charles Jennings
JANUARY 23, 2015
My colleague Jane Hart recently shared the diagram below on her blog. It shows the relationship between relative value and relative autonomy as they relate to different approaches to learning in the modern workplace.
Becoming a Successful Socially Integrated Enterprise – The Long Journey
Luis Suarez
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Social Computing Guidelines and why you would still need them. From there onwards, we get to define, jointly with the knowledge (Web) workers themselves, what are the potential constraints, guidelines, policies, etc.
Violate copyright? No Facebook for you!
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 14, 2012
I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that if Net Neutrality means that access providers don’t get to block access to sites, then this grotesquely violates the FCC’s Net Neutrality guidelines According to TorrentFreak , a leaked AT&T training doc indicates that starting on Nov.
New criteria for academic recognition
David Weinberger
APRIL 13, 2009
The University of Maine has approved new guidelines for tenuring and promoting academics. The new guidelines allow crediting an academic for contributing to social media. This the right thing to do not only because it is a more realistic assessment of an academic’s worth. It’s also the right thing to do because it helps to build the value of the network.
The Challenges of Executing a Transformational Strategy
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 29, 2018
The 2018 MIT CIO Symposium will take place on May 23. This year’s Symposium will be focused on the challenges of executing a digital transformation strategy. It’s no longer enough to have formulated a digital strategy for the business.
Start with the 70. Plan for the 100.
Charles Jennings
DECEMBER 6, 2015
Task lists, models, guidelines. This article draws on ideas and supporting material from a new book published for the first time in English last week.
enough training
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
Usually an industry association, with training specialists, develops the guidelines. Unclear expectations (such as policies & guidelines). In a recent CBC News story, a railway conductor lost her job following a derailment. She claimed she was not adequately trained.
7 essential facets for enterprise knowledge sharing
Harold Jarche
APRIL 11, 2017
Note that this is a guideline and not a recipe. Most large organizations today have some suite of social tools to share information and knowledge. But how do they know if they have the optimum tools for their context?
Real photographs
David Weinberger
JULY 9, 2009
Unfortunately, the NYT removed all of the photos, rather than keeping them up with the metadata that the digital manipulation had gone beyond editorial guidelines, and without telling us what those guidelines are. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see what the NYT’s guidelines are and then hold a contest to see who can create the most deceptive photo while staying within those guidelines?
Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter
Beth Kanter
MARCH 24, 2015
To support the champions strategy, Human Rights Watch incorporated broad guidelines in its s ocial media policy for staff to participate as their personal brands – tweeting as themselves versus an organizational or department brand.
The growing appetite for learning how to crowdsource
Ross Dawson
APRIL 4, 2012
In addition to the pragmatic approaches and guidelines we will cover, one of the important outcomes of the workshops will be identifying what people want and need to learn, and the best ways to help people gain the relevant experience and insights.
we need more debunking
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 28, 2016
“Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths.
listening and learning
Harold Jarche
MAY 8, 2015
But when hospital staff no longer can see the use in filling out forms, going through guidelines and standards and they seek a different and less difficult way of improving quality, then of course I’ll listen.
From Horseless Carriages to Driverless Vehicles
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 28, 2018
They should work closely with AV firms to develop new safety standards, issue guidelines, and permit limited testing on public roads. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may well be the quintessential symbol of our AI/robotics age. Cars are a major part of our daily lives.
Perspectives on work and learning
Harold Jarche
MAY 27, 2013
Principles and values are often more resilient as guidelines than complicated rules and regulations, especially in dealing with complex issues.
What is a Learning Content Management System (LCMS)?
Xyleme
AUGUST 16, 2017
Large companies with brand guidelines, regulations, or any sort of compliance issues can’t function without a central content repository. There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems.
Trump Presidency Lesson Plan
Dan Pontefract
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Use the following guideline: a. Donald Trump won the American presidency. If you happen to be a K-12 teacher/educator, here’s a handy lesson plan you may want to consider. you can download it as a PDF as well). Trump Presidency Lesson Plan. Lesson Plan Information. Subject/Course: All of them.
Restructuring budgets for social learning
George Siemens
JANUARY 11, 2011
In his article Learning with and from others: Restructuring budgets for social learning , provides some guidelines for organizations to consider in implementing social learning. Late 2010, I finally had the opportunity to meet Dan Pontefract when he joined us for a discussion on elearning in Edmonton.
in an increasingly complex world
Harold Jarche
JULY 26, 2012
This is a good set of guidelines (via David Hodgson ) and useful for conversations around organizational change.
What is your PKM routine?
Harold Jarche
MARCH 5, 2014
I do not have a secret formula, only some general guidelines developed through experience, plus a lot of ideas and suggested areas to explore. The most important aspect of PKM is that it is personal. In order to stick with a routine over time, people have to find what works for them.
Signposts for the Week Ending March 9
Adaptive Path
MARCH 9, 2012
Could Pixar's secret story guidelines work for your team? If you're not going to SXSW and all those tweets are making you regret it (or are just annoying you), you're in luck! Lanyrd can help you hide them from your Twitter feed. But if you are attending, go see our pals and former colleagues tear it up at their panel. Whether you went to Interaction 12 or not, the keynotes are up ! Why are we so afraid of creativity? Simon Beck's snow art is crazy amazing!
Of artisanship
Dave Snowden
JULY 11, 2014
Now they are heavily constrained by guidelines designed for the centre of the bell curve. A couple of years ago at the Hay Festival there was a debate on the relationship between art and craft.
Workshop content: Creating results using social media – the HR perspective
Ross Dawson
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Establishing social media governance, guidelines and policies. Tomorrow is the Australian Human Resources Institute HR Technology conference. I will be MC for the conference day, and will also run a half-day workshop on Creating Results Using Social Media on the following day.
Rules is rules
Dave Snowden
JANUARY 28, 2013
However calling all rules guidelines or seeking to remove them is throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. This is where heuristics come into play, and they have a longer pedigree in human systems than guidelines.
Stockholm syndrome in strategy
Dave Snowden
JULY 7, 2016
You may know that a conventional solution has never worked in the past, that a few small specialist consultancy firms could do a better job, that your managers do not need to be constrained by a set of rigid guidelines etc.
Roots determine routes?
Dave Snowden
JANUARY 4, 2015
This type of research is key in public health to allow us to combine biological data with statistics before creating crude guidelines. Each individual causal pathway creates a prescriptive guideline. 10: Trying to get to a single causal line of reasoning.
step aside for network era democracy
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
The community understands it is dealing with a state of complex unorder, while the bureaucrats still think it is merely ‘complicated order’, as the departmental guidelines on hub schools attest.
IBM’s Trip to Become A Socially Integrated Enterprise
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 9, 2011
Over the last couple of weeks there have been a number of rather interesting and insightful blog posts that have been covering IBM’s journey to become a social business. A journey that started back in 2001, but that it had its main roots well substantiated within the company for much longer.
Berkman Buzz
David Weinberger
JULY 31, 2010
CMLP [ twitter ] on the FTC’s defense of its Blogger Endorsement Guidelines link. Here’s the weekly Berkman Buzz , as compiled by Seth Young. Wendy Seltzer [ twitter ] , “Jailbreaking Copyright’s Scope&# link. Facebook caper? Jonathan Zittrain [ twitter ] holsters his pitchfork link. Facebook privacy settings? danah boyd [ twitter ] , Eszter Hargittai [ twitter ] ask, “Who cares?&# Peace on Facebook? Ethan Zuckerman [ twitter ] tries to do the math link.
How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit
Beth Kanter
APRIL 4, 2017
It is far better to address unhealthy attitudes toward digital communications at your nonprofit by carefully crafted and communicated email guidelines developed with everyone’s input. Some nonprofit workplaces have a rule about not sending any emails in the evenings or weekends.
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