tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post116320143217159157..comments2024-02-13T03:00:19.778-07:00Comments on Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development: Learning2006 brain overload...must dump random thoughtsbschlenkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13519463877110474192noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-1163599553718530842006-11-15T07:05:00.000-07:002006-11-15T07:05:00.000-07:00Brent,I see your point. It makes total sense to m...Brent,<BR/><BR/>I see your point. It makes total sense to me.<BR/><BR/>I've felt, for a very long time, that metadata associated with learning objects should be a social thing. Maybe something as simple as tagging (like del.icio.us) would do the trick. My point is that no matter what the instructional intent of a learning object is, when it's in the wild and being used, the people using the content should be able to rate if it helps them do their job (and what job it actually helps them to use). That kind of tagging would be useful in the enterprise if you want to project to intelligent tutoring systems (does anyone still talk about that?), where a learner could be presented with similar content to what they like. That helps with the whole "learning-on-demand" thing by expanding fingertip knowledge into a curricula based on wants and needs.<BR/><BR/>The question, though... is how? The social (collaborative or competitive) model for implementation (content creation) looks great. The tech behind it isn't all that difficult. It comes back to culture and comfort. My enterprise is certainly not ready to jump to that level of democratization (I just kicked off their first blog). <BR/><BR/>It needs to be experimented with to get some lessons learned out of the way. Even if it's just to identify what kind of tools are needed to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-1163547481215552732006-11-14T16:38:00.000-07:002006-11-14T16:38:00.000-07:00I didn't see trackbacks on your blog. More for the...I didn't see trackbacks on your blog. More for the debate:<BR/><BR/>http://nanolearning.wordpress.com/2006/11/14/open-content-or-open-market/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-1163536654550788442006-11-14T13:37:00.000-07:002006-11-14T13:37:00.000-07:00I love the statement "acceptable to everyone and i...I love the statement "acceptable to everyone and interesting to nobody". That's awesome! I must say that I haven't thought much about a competition model in the corporate enterprise space. I must think about a little more, but here are my initial thoughts. In the enterprise, there may not be enough contributors for information to get too watered down, therefore the social network or community could work through the content together...maybe.<BR/>And if people are only finding enough time to contribute very small nuggets at a time to any particular "course" then defining those chunks and letting an open market system work its magic may not be a viable option. All in all, I think its up to the community to decide. If the content gets too watered down and someone is motivated enough to trim it down to its most essential elements in a new course to be offered then perhaps that course becomes the standard and the watered down version dies. Its all about the motivation of the contributors in the network. In many instances watered down may be good enough and its not a priority for that content to be thinned out...or nobody is motivated enough to make it happen.<BR/>Its a great topic of discussion as a piece of Learning2.0. I may extend this into another post.bschlenkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13519463877110474192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15724579.post-1163462545596730812006-11-13T17:02:00.000-07:002006-11-13T17:02:00.000-07:00I agree with most of what you're saying, and every...I agree with most of what you're saying, and everything in your list is features that are either in NanoLearning today, or coming soon.<BR/><BR/>The one thing I don't see is this completely open "wiki" approach to learning content inside organizations. I think when everybody contributes to the content, it gets watered down, acceptable to everyone and interesting to nobody. I think the better model is competition. So if you don't like the learning piece that Bill wrote up about how to deal with angry customers then write your own and make it better. Check the reviews, ratings, and how many people have linked to it in order to figure out if it's better or not.<BR/><BR/>In short I see an open market approach rather than an open content approach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com