When I look at the literature on emerging learning technologies, I find that for the most part it is being produced and used by people in schools and universities. This is especially true for the latest technologies known as Web 2.0. Corporate training on the web still seems to be instructor led and course [...] ...
A great comedian appears to be spontaneous, giving, and having a great time. In truth, most comedy acts are delivered by highly insecure people using carefully contrived and rehearsed material that has often taken years to develop. This is the lesson from watching Jerry Seinfeld in the documentary film Comedian, and from reading Steve [...] ...
I have just finished a report called Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: Tools and Technologies in which I try to enumerate all the different information technologies that can be used to support collaborative learning. In trying to make sense of the myriad software packages available, I divided them into environments, networks, and tools.
I then divided each category into 6 [...] ...
In his 1999 book Collective Intelligence Pierre Lévy observes that “no one knows everything, everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in humanity.” I thought I knew something about the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) because I’d been teaching a graduate class at the University of Toronto in the mid-1980s when Marlene Scardamelia and [...] ...
During the past 2 months I have given workshops on emerging learning technologies in 6 locations in Canada and the United States. Most workshops were attended by 10 to 20 people, most of whom had developed at least one online course for their organization, but who were looking for what was coming next. Interestingly, only [...] ...