After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: I like your meta skills, but … was hoping that you would provide insight into the core skills and knowledge around communities and networks that learning professionals should have? It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.

world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? So I want to focus in on three “meta” skills that may be a little harder to quantify, but which I feel are at the root of most of the other skills already mentioned. This month’s “Big Question” from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: In a Learning 2.0

Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system. To regard it as anything except a critical element within a wider digital literacy framework, and to attempt to teach it alongside an antiquated, generally programme-specific ICT education is to short change our learners, and to fail to recognise the technological, social and economic shifts that have take place globally. Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one.

What is the relationship with this idea that education is handing down a general base of knowledge? We need a shift towards an education system that is about listening to what the learners are bringing into the school situation, as well as thinking about an education system that is pushing things out.” 8221; * Education is diverging from schooling “Education, For the citation sources, go here . * Schools need to open up to peer-based learning models “When 8220;When you look at children’s learning outside school, it is driven by

Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. P2PU acts as a guide to open education materials that are already available and connects small groups of motivated learners. Stian Håklev is a Toronto-based activist for open access to research and open education , and one of the founders of P2PU. Article from Chris Watkins : The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.

An field that deserves more focused attention, and which has the potential to become a key driver for free culture practices is education. Culture and education are inseparably connected. Historically, education has been a mechanism to manifest a shared culture, for example in the case of the Humboldt University, the model for today’s modern research university. From a short essay by J. Philipp Schmidt for the Free Culture Research Workshop at Harvard University, 23 October 2009.

This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. It is a continuum from Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).” Tags: Collective Intelligence P2P Educatio We follow P2P Literacy discussions closely through a delicious tag , and more broadly through two wiki sections on collective intelligence and group facilitation . The image above is part of an effort to update an existing taxonomy : “In the 1950’s Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom’s Taxonomy.

This research examines the impact of vocational education and training (VET), and its project-based activities and partnerships, on the development of sustainable communities in regional Australia. ...Tags: Tags: training community community_indicator

What skills/attributes do learners need in order to learn effectively with networked technologies? What role will educators need to fulfill in networked learning environments? Tagged: connected, connections, Connectivism, connectivity, education, eLearning, learning, siemens, teaching, technology ...Tags: I keep coming across great questions which really make me stop and think. George Siemens  asked four really thought provoking questions in the Networked Learning Conference 2010 Hot Seat

These struggles share certain commonalities: outrage over precarious and exploitative conditions, the occupation of university spaces, and goals of reclaiming education from state and corporate interests. The subsumption of higher education under capital-driven business models has intensified the expropriation of the products of cooperative labor. Struggles against the Conference: Beneath the University, the Commons . University of Minnesota, April 8-11, 2010 “Seemingly