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Community, Collaboration, and Learning: Time for the Fourth Place
It appears to be time to further develop what Ray Oldenburg initiated with The Great Good Place. That wonderful and still-influential book, first written and published more than twenty years ago in a...
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Hidden Garden Steps: Building on a Dream
A dream achieved has taken on new life. Several years ago, Alice Xavier and Jessie Audette in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood of San Francisco’s Inner Sunset District, dreamed of turning a drab...
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Training, Learning, and Collaborating on the Other Side of the Horizon
Trainers and other perpetual learners are information junkies. We thrive on what we learn and share. We revel in those moments when boundaries dissolve and we embrace a seamless role of...
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ALA 2011 Midwinter Meeting: Trainers, Starfish, and Levels of Engagement in...
It wasn’t all that long ago that many of us involved in workplace learning and performance saw our face-to-face and online communities as nonintersecting elements of our lives. Face-to-face contact was...
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Reports from the Field: “Getting Started With e-Learning 2.0”
To move beyond the common practice of seeing e-learning as little more than a way to save money in workplace learning and performance (training) programs, we need go no further than Patti Shank’s...
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Hidden Garden Steps: When Social Networking Supports an Onsite-Online Community
Creating a community-based, volunteer-managed, neighborhood beautification project while strengthening the sense of community in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset District took an interesting turn a few...
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Social Learning Centers: When Fourth Place Is a Winner
The creation of social learning centers as the important fourth place in our lives took another wonderful leap forward today with a successful attempt to create a blended—onsite/online—fourth place...
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Innovations in Social Learning: From Print-based to Digital Environments
When a classmate introduced me to Michael Wesch’s 4.5-minute video The Machine Is Us/ing Us on YouTube a few years ago, I sat in stunned silence for quite a while. Because it introduced me to Web 2.0...
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Workplace Learning and Performance: Optimism and Responsibility
Learning executives across the United States are more optimistic about the training industry than at any other time since ASTD (the American Society for Training & Development) began issuing its...
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KIPA 2015: Conferences, Collaboration, Innovation, and Extending Learning...
One of the benefits of participating in a very small conference—in this case, one that had no more than 30 colleagues onsite—is that the lines between presenters/learning facilitators and learners...
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