Gaming and Simulation – Drawing the line?

In one of my conversations with a reputed customer, we had an interesting discussion around a theme for our project. Essentially a gaming project as conceived initially, both teams got together to thrash out the underlying model – the processes, variables and algorithms that would constitute this project. As the teams got a better understanding [...]

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Communities of Practice, Learning as a social system (Wenger, 1998)

We frequently say that people are an organization’s most important resource. Yet we seldom understand this truism in terms of the communities through which individuals develop and share the capacity to create and use knowledge. CoP: Best Practices, Etienne Wenger, “Systems Thinker”, June 1998 I came across Wenger’s 1998 paper titled Communities of Practice, Learning [...]

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Connectives and Collectives

George Siemens interesting and provocative presentation at D2L Fusion 2008 titled Connectives and Collectives: Learning Alone, together talks about the autonomy of self (Connectives) and the subsumption of self (Collectives). He quotes: “Intense connectivity can homogenize the pool…high cohesiveness can lead to the sharing of common rather than novel information” Uzzi, Spiro (2005) George suggests [...]

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A stitch in time saves Twine

I talked not long ago of Networks of Practice and Learning Formations. I talked about learning effectiveness as a function of individual and network strength and possible optimizations of access to information and connections to people. And Twine is the perfect example of this. A networking site that incorporates evolutionary personalization of content and networking [...]

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Learning Effectiveness = Func[Individual and Network strength]

In a 2.0 world, what will constitute or determine learning effectiveness and learner engagement? We have seen a lot of literature on the individual’s own impact on her learning, but a recent post by Tony Karrer on his Work Literacy blog struck me as profound. So, while information is much more readily accessible and that [...]

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