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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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Notes On "Global Guidelines: Ethics in Learning Analytics"
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 13, 2019
In my post referencing the ICDE's Global Guidelines: Ethics in Learning Analytics yesterday I said: This document summarizes the considerations of an ICDE working group on learning analytics. Regular communications to staff should help ensure that they understand the approach: the underlying values linked to the institution’s mission and strategy; the anticipated benefits for students; the limitations of data and its interpretation; guidelines for ethical practice.
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.
Team Guidelines From A New Boss: How Can He Make Sure.
Bob Sutton
JANUARY 5, 2011
A Great Pixar Story: Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull Serve as Human Shields » Team Guidelines From A New Boss: How Can He Make Sure People Live Them? Guidelines like these are great when they are drive and reflect behavior, but when they are consistently violated, they are worse than having no guidelines at all because the stench of hypocrisy fills the air. The guidelines would probably be even better if the team worked on them. Bob Sutton.
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.
meetings, bloody meetings
Harold Jarche
MAY 6, 2019
The related Meetings Wiki provides good guidelines from several companies. My introduction to organizing meetings was in the military, where different types of meetings had standard structures. The Orders Format was something any officer could recite from memory.
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
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:
#3 Story of the Year
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 30, 2018
BUT since that data enters Europe, it must meet the European guidelines, even though you may never go to Europe. . The 'Data Subject' privacy law passed by Europe protects Americans. Europe is leading the way in passing legislation to make society work in the 21st century. The 'Data Subject' privacy law says that an individual's data (you and I are 'data subjects') is subject to protection by law. . And it includes Americans!
Assessing Evidence in CPD: Meeting Standards and Missing Goals
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 1, 2018
This comes into play with respect to guidelines a lot. Guidelines are like sausages - we don; want to see how they're made. Evidence-based guidelines: Level 1 evidence - 10-15% of all recommendations in guidelines.
Culture: the subject
Dave Snowden
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The idea creating a painting will provide scaffolding for this series; it will draw on various guidelines on how to paint a picture.
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.
learning myths & superstitions
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
In Millennials, Goldfish & other Training Misconceptions my colleague Clark Quinn has written a handy guide for every training shop or L&D department.
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. .
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.
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.
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.
creative economy entrepreneurs
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Guidelines and considerations are provided for each. The co-founders of Creative Startups have published a book that is a guide for anyone interested in the creative economy at any level — Creative Economy Entrepreneurs.
Wise technology?
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
We can provide guidelines about good decisions, provide support through the process, etc. At a recent event, they were talking about AI (artificial intelligence) and DI (decision intelligence). And, of course, I didn’t know what the latter was so it was of interest.
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.
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.
Culture 5 of 7: Colouring in
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 22, 2018
Having some guidelines on what colours go well with others but allowing the odd ‘art movie’ that breaks the rule makes a lot more sense. The big issues are now behind us in this series and in the final three posts (with the promised twist on the 7th) are all about fine tuning the work.
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.
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?
Giving Planner by Giving Compass
Beth Kanter
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
It analyzes your giving and provides some good feedback and guidelines for making sure your giving has impact. ? ?. I
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?
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 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.
Blockchain’s Potential for Environmental Applications
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Clean air : “Around 91% of the world’s people live in places that fail to meet World Health Organization (WHO) air-quality guidelines.”
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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