Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Great post with focus on Knowledge Gaps identified through social network and work context analytics. Denham Grey: Mapping knowledge. Denham Grey: Mapping knowledge Denham Grey is sparking some interesting conversations at his blog, knowledge-at-work. The Knowledge Mapping piece strikes a chord with my own beliefs about "immersion"... To appreciate knowledge gaps, you need to understand the personal networks and work context - This is impossible to get via a survey - it requires immersion I recently took part in a sharing session at the E-learning Competency Center in Singapore. I tried to emphasize the need for Instructional Designers (I think 'Learning Designers' is a more fitting title) to do more "elicitation" during the analysis phase -- meaning that we should spend more time doing some first-hand information gathering and analysis rather than just repurposing raw PowerPoints and Word documents (second-hand material). I drew upon work done by David Snowden and Gary Klein on the difference between 'complex' and 'complicated' phenomena -- complicated acts can be analyzed piecemeal but complex acts like learning have to be experienced holistically.Click here to view a recorded webcast of my presentation. (The second part of my presentation is about linking visual journalism to instructional design). [elearningpost] 8:25:24 AM     Ideo Method Cards - Interesting concepts from the industrial designers of how they do their work.  Not sure if it's just trivia or inspiring - something to think about. Why would I want to have these cards? To give me ideas for how to solve problems... Or to give me inspiration for how to solve problems...  Do I need this???  Is there some problem or class of problems that I am facing now? Nothing more than the age old one - How to focus on the right things at the right time for the right amount of time and get great results...  Would they help here?  Well, what they do is suggest to me(indirectly) is that physical action beyond the expected is an important component of the answer (e.g. make kits, do unusual experiments, engage small teams to explore stuff, BE PLAYFUL)! 8:21:42 AM

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