I got a present in my mailbox today — it was the paper copy of Sharon Boller and Karl Kapp’s new book, Play to Learn! I’d already agreed to be a stop on their Blog Book Tour, but it’s lovely to have the hard copy in hand. They based the book…
Have participated in a few podcasts lately: The Disruption Debate podcast, talking about feedback and why it matters, and how to get more feedback into learning systems: https://www.totaralms.com/blog/disruption-debate-julie-dirksen-why-feedback-matters The Learning Circle podcast, talking about digital habits and how to encourage good habit formation: http://www.dau.mil/learningcircle/default.aspx There are a few more coming up soon,…
I’m kind of obsessing about complexity theory right now (Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Model mostly), and looking at simple, complicated and complex systems. I had a lot of conversations about this last weekend, and have been thinking about it a lot. A couple of upfront disclaimers — first, I’m just learning…
Hey Folks — the second edition of Design For How People Learn is now out! It came out right before the end of the year. I’ll be updating the website this week. Design for How People Learn, 2nd Edition What’s different? The first edition content is still mostly there. I…
So I’ve been doing research for a chapter on social and informal learning that I’m adding the second edition, and I’ve been taking a look at some of the resources on social gaming because they know a *lot* about community development. This is collection of some of the best resources…