Via Stephen Downes: CTE and Work-Based Learning. You will want to get to this one before ERIC is shut down (I wonder whether they did any 'scientific reasearch' before making that decision). According to the author, "Work-based learning represents the integration of workplace experiences and career and technical education (CTE) curriculum." You will therefore want to read this item in conjunction with the work on workflow learning, also listed here this week. The article is a survey, identifying major aspects of work-based learning, and hence, is a good introduction to the concept. By Bettina Lankard Brown, ERIC, December, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
11:13:20 PM  #  

LO Ponderings.

Short ponderings about learning objects over at David Davies’ place. My favorite quote, which everyone should memorize until further notice:

There was a tangible feeling of ‘so what’ about much of the RLO discussion, at least amongst the non-techies.

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1:44:48 PM  #  

Via Serious Instructional Technology: Workflow Learning. Quote: "Workflow learning is characterized by:

•  A deep integration with enterprise applications assembled from Web Services into composite applications.
•  Task and work support fused into the aggregated business processes that make up the real-time workflow.
•  Contextual collaboration with people and systems.
• Design and modification achieved by modeling and simulation.
• Short, granular bursts of learning and workflow task support embedded at specific [base "]nodes[per thou] of a business task.
• Bottom-up dynamic generation of on-the-fly tasks as work evolves.
•  Continuous performance improvement and performance measurement.
• Workflow Learning Resource Arrays aggregated [base "]around[per thou] workers based on job roles."

Comment: Sounds a little like EPSS to me.
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11:06:05 AM  #  

Story in digi.no (in Norwegian): Convergence requires 163 plugs by Einar Ryvarden. Convergence was supposed to make lives easier, but check this out! This reciever from Yamaha looks like it is shot with a shotgun in the back. It has a 163 plugs! It is a monument of how standardisation within ICT, Movies, Music, and TV has failed. Specs on the Yamaha RX-Z7
9:28:25 AM  #