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Training, the Intersection, Fear, and Success (4th of 4)
“I’m afraid” has to be one of the most common and dangerous phrases a teacher-trainer or student-learner can utter or hear. Fear leads to stress, stress shuts down the functioning of the neocortex,...
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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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ALA Annual Conference 2011: Learning With and From Our Colleagues
For those of us whose attendance at conferences is an essential part of our teaching-training-learning, there is an unofficial game that keeps us coming back for more: the game of wondering how quickly...
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On the Horizon Report 2012: The Wisdom of the Crowds We Help Perpetuate (Part...
One of the most fascinating stories embedded in any New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report is how the reports themselves are produced: in a highly collaborative, asynchronous fashion using a...
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Social Learning Centers and the Intersection at 39,000 Feet
I’m sitting next to Rob, someone I met a couple of hours ago at the beginning of an American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this afternoon. We’ve been talking about the...
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The Big Ideas Connecting People, Conferences, and Conversations
Developing and acting upon big ideas sometimes requires big leaps, so it’s no surprise to me that the leap from San Francisco to Austin to Seattle over the past several days has left my head spinning....
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Openly Meandering and Learning During Open Education Week
A little exposure to openness can carry us a very, very long way, as I’m learning through my Open Education Week meanderings. Initially inspired to engage in Open Education Week ruminations and...
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Innovator’s Mindset MOOC (#IMMOOC): At the Intersection of Innovation,...
Yet another article—this one from Inside Higher Ed—is purportedly documenting the idea that MOOCs (massive open online courses) are dead—again. Which is news to those of us who are current relishing...
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ShapingEDU Winter Games: Driving and Intersecting with the Dreamers and Doers
There are conferences that start and end on a pre-announced schedule; you step away from work, you attend them, you enjoy them, and then you go back to work. And then there are conferences that feel...
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Giving Thanks 2021: Maurice Coleman and T is for Training at 300
As we look forward (on December 2, 2021) to recording Episode #300 (you can listen to the episode here)—where have all those years gone?—of Maurice Coleman’s fabulous T is for Training podcast for...
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