learning 2.0 Archive

Why You Must Define the So-What of Learning

February 9, 2012collaboration formal informal leadership learning learning 2.0 social learningNo comments

Whether you work for a private family-owned business, a publicly traded corporation or in the kindergarten-to-higher-education continuum somewhere, you’re going to have to define learning – whether it’s for your employees, colleagues or students. So let’s examine the “so what” learning definition – meaning why learning is present in organizations. As 2012 creeps along, the so-what of learning remains undefined for many employees and organizations, which is causing a disservice. If learning departments aren’t defining this, learning will remain thought of as training, and training will forever continue to be associated with a classroom- or e-learning-only modality. Worse, splinter groups will form, their own definitions of learning will surface and, tragically, learning fiefdoms will become the norm. As a consequence, definitions will be everywhere and

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The Con Academy

By Dan Pontefract

February 1, 2012connected learning education khan academy learning learning 2.0 social learning video sharing3 Comments

Rest assured, I am not against The Khan Academy … at least not entirely. There are several reasons to celebrate what its founder, Sal Khan, and the team have done: A discussion about ‘flipping the classroom’ (as the Economist helped point out) has become mainstream, if not a healthy obsession Outlets such as TED, Charlie Rose and even Stephen Colbert have helped push the topic of education reform to the masses by interviewing or showcasing Sal Khan Videos and learning have become an essential component of the learning cycle; as opposed to some form of babysitting tool. See this short video for an example Even vendors like Cisco are producing white papers outlining the benefits of video in education Where I take umbrage with The

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My Thoughts: iBooks 2, iTunes U App & iBooks Author

By Dan Pontefract

January 19, 2012education higher education iBook iTunesU k-12 k-16 learning tablet7 Comments

According to Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing and Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice-President of Internet Software and Services, there are: over 1.5 million iPads in use in education institutions over 1,000 one-to-one iPad deployments in K-12 schools over 700 million downloads at iTunes U over 500,000 audio or video offerings available on iTunes U over 1,000 universities and colleges around the world using iTunes U over 20,000 ‘education and learning’ applications available for iPad Today’s announcement by Apple launching iBooks 2, iBooks Author and an iTunes U App had me thinking all along … we’ve come full circle. If you think back to the late 80’s, through the 90’s and arguably at the onset of the new millennium, Apple was primarily an

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Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use ‘Connected Learning’ Instead

By Dan Pontefract

May 23, 20112.0 connected learning learning 2.05 Comments

Going forward, and as best I can, I’ll use the term ‘Connected Learning’ to describe a knowledge ecosystem made up of formal, informal and social learning behaviours and modalities. It’s about time I (and perhaps you as well) retire the term Learning 2.0. There are a few reasons for this: Learning will forever be part formal, part informal and part social (see this CLO Magazine article I wrote for more details) Learning 2.0 implies there may be Learning 3.0 coming; learning can’t be thought of or positioned as a series of iPhone versions (ie. iPhone 3, iPhone 4, etc.) Learning is defined by both the behaviour and act of learning (how we approach it) as well as the modalities that shape it (where we learn)

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