Comments on: ElNet Workplace E-learning Congress 2011 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/ A blog by Ryan Tracey Fri, 17 May 2013 01:13:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan Tracey http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/#comment-992 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:16:46 +0000 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/?p=5287#comment-992 I would be honoured.

]]> By: Alison Bickford http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/#comment-991 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:36:06 +0000 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/?p=5287#comment-991 Hi Ryan. I’ve been thinking about your term “Informal learning environments”. I have had trouble naming the environments being represented in my thesis. I started with Program Learning Spaces, Virtual Learning Spaces, and decided on Virtual Learning Environments as this is the usual keyword term in published literatuure. However, VLEs are associated with platforms such as Blackboard, WebCT etc. Are you okay if I adjust my thesis term in the body of the work to “Informal Virtual Learning Environments”? This makes much more sense. I appreciate the prompt you have given me. Alison

]]> By: Ryan Tracey http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/#comment-985 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:17:41 +0000 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/?p=5287#comment-985 Thanks Alison.

Yes, clearly the higher ed sector is in the business of “courses” whereas 70-20-10 dominates the corporate sector, so we need to think about learning a little differently.

Please keep me posted re your doctoral thesis!

]]> By: Alison Bickford http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/#comment-984 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:42:55 +0000 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/?p=5287#comment-984 Hello Ryan
Thanks so much for your Twitter stream and synopsis (I got a bit overheated/claustrophbic in the room, so I gave up my tweeting). Thank you for getting the congress key discussions ‘out there’. Thanks also for your intelligent questions and observations.
I really value your deep thinking on the subject of technologies for learning. I think organisational learning is a unique context in many ways – different to educational institutions. Your contributions will help our org L&D colleagues develop their sophistication in technology approaches for learning (I note your Learning Solutions Magazine article). Thanks again, Alison

]]> By: Ryan Tracey http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/#comment-982 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:03:59 +0000 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/?p=5287#comment-982 Thanks for clarifying, Clint – I’ll update immediately.

]]> By: Clint Smith http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/my-1-liners-from-elnet-2011/#comment-981 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:56:18 +0000 http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/?p=5287#comment-981 Thanks for the thoughtful probes from the ElNet Congress – really good to have wee barbs of questions to stir the juices.
Have to say I couldn’t disagree less about online course dying. Sorry if I misled, but my whole point was that there are new varieties of e-learning which supplement the basic set – there is a bigger repertoire, so providers and organisations need to scan the options, horse for courses. Data suggest online course are doing just fine (they grew 29% in Australia in 2009, $4bill industry, according to IBISworld). They are accommodating new tools, but not disappearing. Bit of wishful thinking around the traps re the impact of the social networking revolution on structured learning :-)

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