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On becoming digital learning collaboratives
Unless we possess interdisciplinary knowledge and skills as individuals, we cannot fully address our needs to improve teaching and learning through the strategic use of digital resources. For those of us whose primary professional background is in IT, we may … Continue reading
Posted in collaborative computing, conducting research online, digital repositories, emerging educational technology, human factors in information systems design, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, online learning and teaching, social networking
Tagged collaboration, digital learning, educational research, educational technology, interdisciplinary learning, learning, online learning, professional development, teaching
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Untethered on the Camino
As someone who has been tethered to computers via the Net for many years doing my online teaching and consulting work, I have come to realize the need to create a balance between the connected self and disconnected self. To … Continue reading
Working memory: recognizing our cognitive limits
Working memory and chunking – without understanding these vital concepts in human terms, we cannot design information systems interfaces that will work with people’s ability to retain only so much at one time in memory. If the interface does not … Continue reading
Posted in cognition, content management, human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, management of information systems and technology, user experience, user-centered design
Tagged chunking, cognition, cognitive limits, content management, George Miller, magic number seven, working memory
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Collaborative reasoning with a social strategy
In my previous posts on the value of mental and physical models, I suggested that it is the dialog that we create between these two types of reasoning that helps us tackle the discovery of what is novel and complex: … Continue reading
Posted in blogs for research, collaborative computing, conducting research online, content management, human factors in information systems design, information ethics, innovation, instructional design, management of information systems and technology, social media, social networking, strategic management of technology innovation, user experience, user-centered design
Tagged collaboration, collaborative learning, collaborative reasoning, collaborative software, content management, design, discovery, mental model, physical model, social media, social networking
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The “How To” of Mental Representations
Isaac Bashevis Singer “Who knows?” Whether it is walking across the street or browsing Web sites on the Internet, we need to know “how” to do something to be able to successfully navigate and perform tasks. Of course, we can … Continue reading
The Way We Connect
In my travel to Spain to do research for a book on that topic, I journeyed through the north to Santiago de Compostela and by staying in a small inn outside of the city (the terminus of The Way of … Continue reading
Posted in blogs for business, collaborative computing, content management, customer experience management, human factors in information systems design, mobile computing, mobile learning, social change, social media, social networking, strategic management of technology innovation, user experience
Tagged Camino de Santiago, content management, film, Google Maps, Google StreetView, movie, social media, social networking, Spain, The Way, The Way of Saint James, travel
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What Hubble 3D teaches us about model-based reasoning
Greetings, Near the end of the relatively brief (45 min.) Hubble 3D Imax movie, I sat transfixed with my 3D glasses as I watched a fly-through sequence composed of Hubble images extending at greater resolution into the furthest visualized part … Continue reading
Posted in human factors in information systems design, information architecture, instructional design, knowledge management, learner experience, management of information systems and technology, online learning and teaching, user experience
Tagged information architecture, instructional design, learner experience, mental model, model-based reasoning, physical model
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