Learnativity Update - April 2002 >> TEST 3 (and final!)
- From: "Marcia Conner" <marcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "The Learnativity Alliance" <community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:37:13 -0400
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The Learnativity Alliance Update
April 2002
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Worth Quoting:
"The important thing about learning is that like the sky it's always
there." - Margaret Wise Brown. See more quotations under #5 below.
Favorite Resource This Month:
The Wayback Machine: Every discover that a favorite website has vanished?
The content may now be found through the Internet Archive where you can surf
pages back in time. (http://www.archive.org). See more great resources under
#2 below.
In this Update:
1) Interested in learning with us this spring and summer?
2) Resources you don't want to miss!
3) Updates on Learnativity.com
4) Stats you can use!
5) Worth quoting
6) Subscription Information
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1) Interested in learning with us this spring and summer?
May 2-3 (Seattle, WA)
May 8-10 (Charlottesville, VA)
CHAORDIC ORGANIZATIONS: I'll be co-leading two workshops for the Chaordic
Commons in April around the theme of "Creating Chaordic Organizations." The
first will be in Seattle Washington, May 2-3. The second will be in
Charlottesville VA May 8-10. Even if you're not able to join me for one of
these very interactive workshops, I encourage you to visit some of the links
below and learn more about what it means to be Chaordic. Workshop and
registration information at http://www.chaordic.org/what_sem7.html
The workshop is part of an ongoing effort to introduce "Chaordic" notions
into the world and to learn how to Create Chaordic Organizations. Chaordic?
From the words "Chaos" and "Order," the term was coined by Dee Hock, CEO
Emeritus of VISA International, in an effort to more adequately describe
"leadership and strategy in a way that creates innovative, flexible,
enduring organizations that more equitably distribute power and wealth and
are more compatible with the human spirit and biosphere."
This process is being used with organizations working to integrate purpose
and principles into their structure. What kind of organizations? People
attended past workshops have come from such diverse organizations as the
United Nations, US Navy, Society for Organizational Learning, Tom Peters
Co., The Institute for Play, Arizona State University, and East Jessamine
High School (just to name a few). Areas of special focus for us are
education and health care. You can learn more about Dee and Chaordic notions
from the following articles, speeches, and sites:
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/40/wf_swing.html
http://www.odnetwork.org/odn98/followup/deehock.html
http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/l2l/winter2000/hock.html
http://www.learnativity.com/chaordic.html
May 7-11 (Honolulu, HI)
Wayne Hodgins will be speaking at the 11th annual World Wide Web Conference,
chairing the Learning Objects & Standards Workshop and facilitating a
session on Metadata & Learning Objects.
http://www2002.org/
http://www2002.org/educationtrack.html
http://www.gla.ac.uk/rcc/www2002workshop/
May 14-16 (Singapore)
Wayne Hodgins will be Online Learning 2002 Asia Singapore
http://www.vnuonlinelearning.com.sg/
May 21 (By Phone)
Ellen Wagner will be hosting an audio-conference for the University of
Wisconsin Distance Education Professional Certification program entitled,
"Managing Distance Learning in Corporate Settings" on May 21, 2002 at
12:00-2:15 EDT. If you are interested in participating, drop Ellen a line
asking for more details (ellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). This is a companion event
to her book Managing Web-Based Training
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562861158/thelearnativico/)
May 20-22 (Belfast, Ireland)
Continuing his worldwide travel, Wayne Hodgins will be leading a Fast Track
on Learning Objects, Metadata and Standards and Making It Work: Case Studies
and Techniques for Real-World Online Learning, May 20-22 for the European
Tourism & Hospitality (CERT) in Belfast, Ireland. http://www.cert.ie
June 13-14 (New York City)
June 20-21 (San Diego)
CONFERENCE BOARD on ELEARNING: I will again moderate the Conference Board's
eLearning Conferences this summer. Wayne Hodgins will be keynoting the
session in San Diego. The events will be held June 13-14, 2002 at The Plaza
Hotel in New York City and June 20-21, 2002 in San Diego, California. These
two day programs convene practitioners, experts, and visionaries to share
lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, strategies and tactics for creating
dynamic e-learning environments.
http://www.conference-board.org/ecelearning.htm > NYC Information
http://www.conference-board.org/wcelearning.htm > San Diego Information
June 26-28 (Charlottesville, VA)
CREATING A LEARNING CULTURE: Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration at the University of Virginia will host a small colloquium on
Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice June 26-28,
2002 in Charlottesville Virginia. I am helping to develop this event and
will be facilitating several of the panels. Wayne Hodgins and Ellen Wagner
will be participating and speaking during the event, as well.
Participants will include senior corporate executives, chief executives of
learning technology companies, scholars, and business faculty. For more
information visit the event website at http://www.darden.edu/batten/clc/.
This is an invitation-only event. Please contact Will Luckert
(luckertw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) if you are interested in receiving an
invitation.
August 14-16 (Madison, WI)
DISTANCE LEARNING 2002: Ellen Wagner and I will be offering a pre-conference
seminar on Leveraging Learning Objects: Current Status and Future Directions
at the 18th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. The 2002
conference will be held August 14-16, 2002 at the Monona Terrace Convention
Center located on Lake Monona in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/.
September 4-6 (Menlo Park, CA)
LEARNING OBJECTS: The Learnativity Alliance, along with SRI's Consulting
Business Intelligence groups, is poised to launch the first Learning Object
Design Symposium September 4-6 at the SRI International offices in Menlo
Park, California. This international event will bring together learning
object practitioners and thought-leaders to explore next-generation
strategies and tactics for designing distributed learning and performance
systems and programs based on a reusable learning object model. We are
finalizing the details now and will include further information in our May
update. Find background information on Learning Standards and Objects at
http://www.learnativity.com/standards.html
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2) Resources you don't want to miss!
If you missed the March 2002 Harvard Business Review interview with Edgar
Shien, find yourself a copy! The Anxiety of Learning: An Interview with
Edgar H. Schein by Diane L. Coutu. "Despite all of the time, money, and
energy that executives pour into corporate change programs, the stark
reality is that few companies ever succeed in genuinely reinventing
themselves. That's because the people at those companies rarely master the
art of transformational learning--that is, eagerly challenging deeply held
assumptions about a company's processes and, in response, altering their
thoughts and actions. Instead, most people just end up doing the same old
things in superficially tweaked ways. Why is transformational learning so
hard to achieve?" You'll have to read the interview to find out. This is the
best article I've read in years!
(http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/prod_detail.asp?R0203H)
I'm the editor of the eLearning Portals and eLearning Company sections of
the Open Directory Project (ODP). If you aren't using this people-organized
research and search site, you might want to try it. I'm quite impressed with
the way they categorize and turn up sites you can't find elsewhere.
(http://dmoz.org)
The eLearning Guild is a community of practice for designers, developers,
and managers of eLearning, to our listing of affiliates. This is a new
organization from our good friends David Holcombe and Heidi Fisk (the forces
behind the now defunct Influent Technologies) who we will be working with in
various ways this coming year. http://www.elearningguild.com
The Human Capital Live! virtual seminar series is a group of web-based
events sponsored by Saba. The series features renowned thought-leaders
discussing trends and ideas critical to any organization looking to improve
the performance of its people. The April 16, 2002 session will be with Tom
Davenport. http://www.saba.com/hclive/. I delivered a session on Information
Learning on April 4, 2002. You can view the archive online
http://www.saba.com/HCLive/reg6/index.html
Interested in reading syndicated columns and cartoons but don't have the
time (or space) to keep the newspaper? Check out http://www.uexpress.com and
http://www.ucomics.com. My favorites include Elaine St. James "Simplify Your
Life" Column (http://www.uexpress.com/simplifyyourlife/), James Kilpatrick
on "The Writer's Art" Column (http://www.uexpress.com/coveringthecourts/),
and "Close to Home" (http://www.ucomics.com/closetohome/).
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3) Updates on Learnativity.com
Interested in learning how to calculate the ROI of your educational
investments? We've created an article with links on ROI for Learning at
http://www.learnativity.com/roi-learning.html
Executive Education seems to be a hot topic these days. Find an overview of
the issues and organizations providing solutions at
http://www.learnativity.com/execed.html
Know there is more going on the world than meets the eye? Visit new content
on Complexity and Self-organization at
http://www.learnativity.com/complexity.html
We have republished the outstanding "Learning Without Limits" reports
created by Ellen Wagner and staff members at Informania in 1998 and 2000.
This wonderful series of publications documenting their explorations,
observations and experiences with several early projects involving
elearning, learning objects and competency based learning designs.
(http://www.learnativity.com/lwol.html)
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4) Stats you can use!
ADULT EDUCATION WEBSITE TRAFFIC UP: Traffic to adult education sites has
increased by 60 percent since 1997, according to Fulcrum Analytics. These
sites provide training, preparation for standardized tests, seminars, and
graduate degrees, among other services. Fulcrum Analytics says that visitors
to these sites spend more time online than the average Internet user (15.3
hours per week compared with 11.5 hours). Furthermore, adult education sites
have used the Internet for an average of 4.5 years, in comparison with the
average Internet user, who has been online for 3.7 years. Three quarters of
visitors to these sites go online for business reasons, and 53 percent spend
their time online carrying out work-related tasks. About 75 percent say the
Internet makes them more productive at work. Learn more at
http://www.fulcrumanalytics.com/
ELEARNING TO PICK UP IN EUROPE: Over twenty-seven percent of business skills
training in Europe will be provided via elearning by 2005, according to IDC.
This would entail a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 108.2 percent for
the European elearning market between now and then. By 2006, the overall
business skills training market will have risen by a CAGR of 14.9 percent
and will be worth USD13 billion. Growth will be slow this year but should
pick up next year. IDC says that elearning adoption and development is most
advanced in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and the UK. Overall, however, the
European elearning market is "in its infancy". Learn more at
http://www.idc.com
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5) Worth Quoting
Any clod can have facts, but having opinions is an art. - Charles McCabe.
You cannot teach a person anything. You can only help them find it within
themselves. - Galileo
In a world where there is so much to be done, I fell strongly impressed that
there must be something for me to do. - Dorothea Dix
The sage does not accumulate (for himself). The more that he expends for
others, the more does he possess of his own; the more that he gives to
others, the more does he have himself. - Lao Tzu
Today we're a society awash in networks, yet starved for community. - Peter
Katz, author of The New Urbanism (learn more about community at
http://www.learnativity.com/community.html)
Find more quotations at http://www.learnativity.com/quotations.html
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Marcia Conner, Wayne Hodgins, and Ellen Wagner
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