There are two major purposes for using an online community and social learning:
as part of a formal blended-learning program
as part of an informal learning experience. The technologies to support these two purposes are radically different.
This post is about an experiment in collaborative storytelling for onboarding that we tried at Sprout Labs. Collaborative storytelling is a facilitation technique that can be used online or face to face.
The idea of online jams was pioneered by IBM. Their online jam events are global brainstorming sessions that happen over a period of 24 hours. For more about IBM events check out https://www. collaborationjam. com.
A common approach when designing learning experiences with the 70:20:10 framework is thinking about using online communities, learner communities or communities of practice to support learners, generate new knowledge or share knowledge. But these types of learning experiences are actually hard to make work.
Some Sprouts and Brian Jones, Web Services Development Officer at Hobart City Council, just took part in GovHack 2015, where we built a mobile augmented reality game using local government datasets. The game is a simple 'Dungeons and Dragons' hack-and-slash-fest designed to raise awareness of council public assets.
The way in which most eLearning modules ‘talk’ with an LMS is based on a standard called SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model).
When I first start talking with clients about Glasshouse there is often a bit of confusion about how it works with an LMS, usually because some of the features of Glasshouse sound a bit like those of a cloud-based LMS.
The pro and cons of using the built-in authoring tools in an LMS for elearning authoring.
Open source software is disrupting the world of enterprise software. Here we explore the pros and cons of open source learning management systems compared with commercial systems.
Often, online learning is seen as belonging to the formal ‘10’ part of the 70:20:10 learning model. With first-generation learning management systems that might have been the case – they were really just SCORM players.
