Harold Jarche's blog

Blogging, writing and creating
by Harold Jarche | Sun, 11/02/2008 - 21:04

In Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Lawrence Lessig, referring to writing, states that, "Creating is a responsibility. Only by practicing it can you learn." Later he talks about blogging, "A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B."

A Gentle Hand
by Harold Jarche | Wed, 10/22/2008 - 07:11

On our Work Literacy project we have been discussing Web social media tools and how they can be used for training and education. Several groups have been created within the course of over 700 members and one of these is educators. Bill Graziadei has been very active with the group and showed how you can create a Glog, which is a mash-up of various Web tools and creates a personal portal that can also be used as a road map for students. Here is piece of Bill's glog:

 

The end of social networks, already?
by Harold Jarche | Thu, 10/16/2008 - 14:18

I've been facilitating an online course called Work Literacy that has about 700 members participating. Our first week focused on social networks and how they could be used for learning. We used Ning, a free hosted platform, for our main point of online presence and then discussed other social networks, including Linked-In and Facebook. Of course, one of the major points of discussion was that you have to learn how to use each network and not all of your contacts are on each network.

Moving the Ivory Tower to the Web (Part 2)
by Harold Jarche | Wed, 10/15/2008 - 08:17

With the rise of open learning, the time to think about the move to an online model is now. We have seen organizations in other sectors that are decisively moving to the web doing well. A good example is iTunes which usurped many existing music retailers. Organizations that only partially moved to the open Web have done less well, as witnessed by Barnes & Noble which is really a bookstore with a web presence. Compare that to Amazon which is a pure web-based book seller.

Moving the Ivory Tower to the Web (Part 1)
by Harold Jarche | Wed, 10/15/2008 - 08:12

Is the Web becoming the medium of choice for learners, and will teachers and finally administrators ever follow suit? George Siemens has discussed the idea of a world without traditional courses and he articulates three main components or requirements for online education: