After nearly six years, many thousands of hours of effort and tens of thousands of dollars, I have made the difficult decision to stop pursuit of my PhD degree. Since July of 2005 I have been in Capella University's PhD in Education program specializing in Instructional Design for Online Learning. I completed the courses and …
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Book Review: “Social Media for Trainers” by Jane Bozarth
Those in need of information need it--and need to know how to find it--in the moment, not when the training department happens to offer it. And they have learned to find that information from one another, rather than depend on traditional, slow, inefficient, and often inaccurate top-down means. It is critical, if workplace trainers intend …
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Book Review: “Social Learning Handbook” by Jane Hart
With the use of social media in learning by learning professionals still relatively young, there are only a handful of books written on the subject. To be honest, several of them overlap somewhat in the content provided, leaving me to ask after reading the third one in the span of a month "Do I really …
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More questions than answers
As I reflect on the state of social learning and the use of social media in learning, I am well aware of the fact that I have more questions than answers. I suspect it will remain that way. Some questions will be answered in time, but they will be replaced by more questions than are answered. That's a good …
