The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Instructional Design
The seven habits based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's flow concept.- Focus Goals
- Eliminate Distractions
- Match Student Skills and Course Level
- Create a Supportive Environment
- Create Order Through Rules
- Let Students Express Themselves
- Provide Timely and Consistent Feedback
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Here is a How to Topic Maps, Sir!
A fantastic introduction to Topic Maps. A tutorial to follow soon. [Thanks ColumnTwo]Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Managing the unexpected
I enjoyed Carl Weick and Kathleen Stutcliffe's book Managing the Unexpected where they talk about mindfulness -- the capability to manage and be aware in high reliability organizations. This university webpage provides a nice overview of this book.Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 03, 2004
If It’s Urgent, Ignore It
Something to think about: "Smart organizations ignore the urgent. Smart organizations understand that important issues are the ones to deal with. If you focus on the important stuff, the urgent will take care of itself."Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 03, 2004
Turning the pages
Fantastic resource from the British Library. Here you can turn the pages of some great books like the Diamond Sutra and Leonardo's Notebook.Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 30, 2004
Guides for lecturers
Here's a nice resource for lecturers that include how to build cases and problem based learning materials.Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 30, 2004
Quirky Google Culture Endangered?
This article from Wired talks about some of the cultural changes Google may go through after its IPO. Things that may go out:innovation Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 29, 2004
E-learning Readiness Rankings
Key findings from this report by IBM and the Economist Intelligent Group: Key findings:- Sweden deposes US to take first place
- Northern Europe, North America and Australia claim top nine spots
- Hong Kong and South Korea make significant advances
- Economic difficulties inhibit, but by no means cripple, Internet development
- Conducive government policy boosts e-readiness in developed and developing countries alike
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 29, 2004
Knowledge flows are powered by questions
From Mathmagenic: "IAdd tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Steelcase
While searching for some stuff done on work spaces and knowledge sharing I came across some fantastic resources from Steelcase. They have tons of stuff -- check out the paper under InSitu learning, really interesting.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Card-Based Classification Evaluation
This article discusses how to do a card-based classification exercise. Such an exercise is useful in understanding and testing a navigation hierarchy. Users are given scenarios and told to use the cards to navigate the hierarchy. These scenarios are analyzed and the pattern studied.Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Where CEOs do the training too
Mr Robert Corcoran, GE's chief learning officer on training: "GE's training works because of a thousand different things, most of which have nothing to do with training. At best, studies show that only 10 per cent of leadership development is training, 20 per cent comes from mentoring, coaching and role models, and 70 per cent from on-the-job experience."Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 26, 2004
CEN KM Guides
These KM guides from the European Committee for Standardization cover everything from culture to frameworks. Worth keeping as a reference. [thanks ColumnTwo]knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 26, 2004
Explorelearning
Wonderful examples of highly interactive e-learning content here. These modules called gizmos are interactive simulations, on the lines of StarLogo, which provide students an authentic environment to analyze and practice.Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 26, 2004
StoryAtWork
Still on stories, I found this amazing resource for storytelling in organizations. Under the resources section, I found a link to a fantastic article on "The Four Elements of Every Successful Story" (PDF) by Bob Dickman.Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 22, 2004
Academy Sharing Knowledge
Academy Sharing Knowledge (ASK) is NASA's knowledge sharing portal on project management. Interesting to see that they've used personal stories as the primary vehicle to spread the knowledge.Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 22, 2004
Computer-Based Music Production on a Budget
A comprehensive article on how to set up your own audio studio. All hardware and software costs are included.Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 22, 2004
Educating the Reflective Practitioner
I've been searching for this paper by Donald Schon for a long time now -- found it by remembering the bicycle riding example of tacit knowledge. It was this paper that struck a chord in me with regards to learning and knowledge. Although it was written in 1987 its concepts are so relevant. Some wonderful anecdotes about practice are worth remembering, like this one: Vygotsky, who worked just after the Russian Revolution, worked with peasants, some of whom had been to the collective schools and some of whom had not. And he gave them little tests. And the basic pattern of the test was "Put together the things that go together." So he showed this peasant a hammer, a saw, a hatchet and a log of wood, and he said, "Put together the things that go together." And the peasant said, "Well, clearly, what goes together is the log of wood and the hatchet and the saw because you use the hatchet and the saw to cut the wood for firewood." And Vygotsky said--and this was his regular strategem--"I have a friend who says that the saw, the hammer and the hatchet go together because they are tools." And the peasant answered, "Then your friend must have a lot of firewood!"Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 21, 2004
The News, One Entry at a Time
Reason for the proliferation of blogs: "readers are hungry for bias".Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Cases as a knowledge management tool
Gilbert Probst has been pushing cases as effective KM tools since long now. He even has an entire chapter devoted to it in the widely popular KM reference -- Knowledge Management Case Book. I think he's got a point here. Cases are in line with After Action Reviews as means of not only distilling what happened but also for creating and more importantly reusing knowledge (in the appropriate form). I feel that such forms of knowledge objects, where the authenticity of the contexts is preserved have a much better chance of being used and reused. Guess what I mean is that knowledge objects should be narratives. This is also Probst's argument -- cases are narrative tools: "If we read the case report as a narrative, and consider the images, metaphors and character descriptions, we find a layer of meaning containing knowledge that would otherwise remain hidden or implicit." Probst's paper on cases is here (PDF file). You can also access other gems from where this came from -- Geneva Knowledge Form.knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Virtual Chautauqua
From April 15-30, Brian Alger, author of The Experience Designer, will be moderating this virtual chautauqua on "brilliant new approaches for e-Learning and challenges creative thinkers across business, education, government and culture to elevate e-Learning to new levels."Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 20, 2004
johnseelybrown.com
John Seely Brown has his own website. Some great stuff on learning and community.Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 19, 2004
KM Reinventing IA Reinventing KM
Hurrah! Being a connector, Lou Rosenfeld will finally help spread the merging of these two domains. I would go further and put e-learning into the mix. They all satisfy the same overall goal: to help in the creation and the transfer of knowledge.knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 16, 2004
The Future of Work: An ‘Apprentice’-style Office?
Here's a strategic thought: "When communications costs fall it becomes possible for vastly more people to be well-enough informed to make decisions instead of just following orders from their uniquely well-informed superiors."Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 16, 2004