A while back, a blog conversation between Mark Oehlert and Lee Kraus regarding how to knit together lots of embedded, widget/gadget like learning applications into a coherent picture of what and how learners are doing. To begin with, the idea they’re toying with is very similar to the LMOS but focused on a corporate market [...]
As many of you know, I am a fan of JotSpot. One of the interesting things that came out of my interview with JotSpot co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer is that they plan to build workflow syntax and functionality into their wiki product. Which brings me to Scott McMullan’s post….
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This post isn’t a litany of the things that I don’t like about RoboDemo, although there will necessarily will be some of that. Rather, it’s my own speculation as to why a smart company with a reputation for good software produced a lemon of a release. Make no mistake about it, though; Robodemo 5 sucks. [...]
Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks that distributed cognition is a good fit with workflow and workflow learning; SAP is pushing it too. This article doesn’t contain a whole lot of info beyond what was in the Dickelman and Greenberg piece I cited earlier, but it’s interesting to see a vendor talking this [...]
Thinking some more about Sam Adkins’ description of the distinction between EPSS and workflow learning, I decided to go back and refresh my memory on the concept of distributed cognition. As Gary Dickelman and Jan Greenberg note [PDF],
Distributed cognition looks for cognitive processes, wherever they may happen, on the basis of the functional relationship [...]
