I’ve reposted the link the my new Beyond E Learning podcast here.
Ken Carroll
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Stephen Krashen
Formal learning involves the type of courses we take in school or on training programs. In school, it is mostly done to us (while we sit passively). It is explicit and presented in structured, generic packages, on a pre-ordained schedule, etc.
Informal learning, by contrast, constitutes everything beyond the formal - anything we learn […]
Jay Cross, in his seminal Informal Learning, has lots of great insights. Here are some into ways to promote learning. According to Jay, people learn best when they:
Know what’s in it for them and deem it relevant
Understand what’s expected of htem
Connect with other people
Are challenged to make choices
Feel safe about showing what they do […]
E learning experts review ChinesePod
Published by March 31st, 2007 in About ChinesePod and Learning. 4 CommentsTwo notable individulas who have been using Chinesepod have blogged about their impressions. Rick Nigol is an e-learning expert who has been using ChinesePod for the last few weeks, as has Paul Dillon, aka, the Learning Guy. Both seem to like ChinesePod, and for similar reasons.
Community
Both cite community as a source of motivation, help, […]
Since I started this blog, in Oct 2005, I feel I’ve been learning at warp speed. Why? Well, I didn’t do a brain-swap or a radical attitude change, but I did create a learning network: a collection of trusted, online sources of information, help, and discussion that keeps me constantly thinking, learning, and participating.
ChinesePod […]
ChinesePod learner Paul Dillon writes a piece explaining the notion of blended learning and the effect of the 8 week program. I think he makes some great points.
Meanwhile I have some further thoughts on work and the future of learning in the workplace here.
Ken Carroll
Lessons Learned: Uncertainty engages the mind
Published by February 9th, 2007 in Learning. 18 CommentsProfessor Ellen Langer, of Harvard, once told an anecdote that reveals something important.
One day she handed out a paper to a group of students and said, ‘Read this. You’re going to be tested on it.’ Later she handed out the same paper to a different group and said, ‘Read this. You’re going to be tested […]
Here’s another observation on learning that I’d like to share with you: The importance of learner self-direction.
At school, we all had the experience of plodding through courses according to the demands, schedule, etc, of the institution. At the end of the year you looked back and you were told that you’d done such and […]
I want to post a series of learning insights that have emerged for me as important in the last year. The first one concerns the issue of redundancy.
As it happens, ChinesePod learner, ‘kmk’, picked up on this issue today. Let me first explain my view of what it is.
By redundancy I refer […]
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