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Life hacks for learning
Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASN, created an excellent Slideshare presentation called “Life Hacks for Doctors.” It’s a guide that helps physicians consider how they can aggregate, organize, and respond...
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What’s on the horizon for instructional design
The 2010 Horizon report, a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, provides some interesting insights on changes that are likely to become part of the...
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Mobile learning for health: Initial design considerations
Health-related mobile learning is a rapidly expanding field. In this post, I’ll consider some initial instructional design considerations for health-related mobile learning applications. Goal...
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Informal learning: Finding the flow
Given all the attention paid lately to informal learning, you’ve probably seen pie charts like the one on the right. Formal learning’s a sliver of most workers’ lives, so it makes sense to devote time...
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Social learning and radical innovation
When people talk about social learning, there’s often a tendency to act as if providing the technology to bring people together (microblogging, forums, wikis, etc) will necessarily result in knowledge...
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Clusters: a Firefox add-on for personal knowledge management
Clusters is a Firefox add-on that helps you organize your most valuable web-based resources. The technology (or what are my powers?) Clusters is a free add-on to your Firefox browser that allows you to...
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Keeping an eye on education and innovation with Education Eye
In beta, Education Eye is a novel, specialized search engine focused on collecting content relating to “innovative practices” in education. The technology (or what are my powers?) Education Eye is a...
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The interplay between games and social media platforms
The process of including game thinking and game mechanics to engage audiences and change behaviors and/or solve problems is called gamification. Gamification has gotten a bad rap over the past year...
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Finding the flow in social learning: a game perspective
In a previous post, I talked about elements of games that are incorporated to varying degrees in different social media platforms. In this post, I’d like to consider how these game elements might be...
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Quora: A social network built for learning
Twitter’s a great source of curated information and can get quite social when people engage directly with each other through chats. However, it’s not really a network where you find or generate deeper...
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