When I was a poker player in college days, the only table I refused to join was one where a player did not understand the rules. One guy could ruin a game for everyone by doing things so stupid that no one expected them. Which brings me to the U.S. Patent Office.
Entries Tagged 'The Learning Business' ↓
Life among the clueless: the Blackboard patent
August 1st, 2006 — The Future, The Learning Business, bullshit
Investing in education & training
July 25th, 2006 — The Learning Business
The inaugual issue of Education Signals from my favorite analyst of our industry, Trace Urdan. Trace and Jeff Lee have left Baird for Signal Hill Capital. If you follow the investment view of training and education, you owe it to yourself to get a free subscription to this weekly newsletter.
Training Directors Forum 06
June 16th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Learning Business, Web 2.0
Training Directors Forum 2006 took place at the Desert Springs Marriott in Palm Desert (nextdoor to Palm Springs) in the high desert about two hours east of Los Angeles. This is a wrap-up post.
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Knowledge flows
May 19th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Future, The Learning Business
(Heraclitus) of Ephesus wrote, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Everything flows and nothing abides. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe. If we do not exepect the unexpected, we will never find it.” He was ahead of his time.
Stephen is back!
May 3rd, 2006 — Just Jay, The Learning Business, Web 2.0
Stephen Downes is back online and posting.
Welcome back, Stephen.
We have missed you.
Is this the same book?
March 14th, 2006 — Just Jay, The Learning Business
Lance Dublin’s and my book, 
Implementing eLearning, has gotten the treatment at Amazon.
Happily, they’ve cut the price from $39.95 to $28.89. That’s still 20 cents a page, but oh what pages! Amazon tells me you get 1,244 words per dollar. And if you’re traveling, you’ll be happy to find out that’s nearly 3,000 words an ounce.
First sentence: “Today’s business operates in a real-time world where innovation rules, competitors appear from all corners, and knowledge provides more leverage than capital. ”
Read the first page and see for yourself.
Tags
March 11th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Future, The Learning Business
Last Thursday’s Unworkshop on Learning+Web 2.0 covered the topic of tags. Since tags are such an important aspect of Web 2.0, I was surprised not to find a graphic explaining the difference between formal and informal tagging. Ripping off ideas from both David Weinberger and Clay Shirky (I only steal from the best), I slapped together this image for discussion:
Next Net
March 6th, 2006 — The Future, The Learning Business
Web 2.0 Next Net
It takes guts for a publication named Business 2.0 to announce that the term Web 2.0 is headed for the dustbin. Not that Web 2.0 is going away. Rather, it is morphing into something much larger: Next Net. This is a phase change.
Ecosystem Query, 2
February 25th, 2006 — Informal Learning, Just Jay, The Future, The Learning Business
Here’s a simpler rendition of what I was trying to ask yesterday.
Learning consists of people interacting with other people and with stuff. Learning professionals work on improving connections, having the right information on tap, and opening up the conduits to the sources of learning. They focus on everything but the learner. I don’t understand why we stop before addressing this last piece of the learning ecosystem.
Learning Ecosystem Question
February 24th, 2006 — Informal Learning, The Future, The Learning Business
Here’s an oversimplified view of a learning ecosystem. Bear with me.
A learner interacts with stuff through what I’ll call pipes and with people through relationships. A net connection is one form of pipe; webpages and other information are stuff. Interactions with people and stuff lead to learning.
