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		<title>Prof of Open University says that academia out of date in Web 2.0 world</title>
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Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK (OUUK) and is the academic lead on the OUUK’s SocialLearn project which is developing a social network for learners. He blogs at The Ed Techie
He has written an essay as part of a special edition of the education journal On the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2008/06/20/prof-of-open-university-says-that-academia-out-of-date-in-web-20-world/</link>
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		<title>PodCamp Toronto 2008</title>
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PodCamp Toronto 2008 is coming up.  This will be the 2nd PodCamp held in Toronto and will take place on the Roger&#8217;s Communications Centre at Ryerson University.
What is a PodCamp?  A PodCamp is a usually free community UnConference for new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2008/01/31/podcamp-toronto-2008/</link>
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		<title>Being In The Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Learning Guys met up with Andrew Burnham last week. Andrew is the president of Being in the Moment.
Andrew is a dynamic, engaging facilitator, speaker and learning leader who specializes in applying re-emerging was of learning, change and being. Andrew has developed his improvisational thinking workshop to move people forward in the areas of team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2008/01/29/being-in-the-moment/</link>
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		<title>A question from Shawn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Learning Guys recently received the following questions from executive recruiter Shawn Draisey:
I am an executive recruiter seeking to comprehend the m-learning sector in Canada and/or the USA-North America as a whole. I have read federal government reports stating that we lag behind other countries when it comes to m-learning.
Is m-learning still in its infancy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2008/01/09/a-question-from-shawn/</link>
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		<title>RSS for Instructional Designers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at a client meeting the other day where the topic of discussion was &#8220;multi-channel delivery of learning content&#8221;. The client has a legacy collection of audio and video learning objects that it wants to make available to employees on an on-demand basis. I suggested that the client could group the learning objects into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2007/11/23/rss-for-instructional-designers/</link>
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		<title>What Open Social Means to Business</title>
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With the announcement of Open Social, being spearheaded by Google, there is a lot of interest and questions about what is Open Social and what it means to Business.  I know this is a Learning blog, but in the interest of learning and sharing, I wrote about it on the Matrix Meridian corporate site, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2007/11/08/what-open-social-means-to-business/</link>
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		<title>What is Social Media? (Part 1)</title>
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After a brief hiatus, I&#8217;m back to address some some questions that we&#8217;ve been getting from our client and friends alike.  With the arrival of the likes of MySpace and Facebook into the public mainstream consciousness, we are often asked about Social Media.
‘Social Computing is not a fad. Nor is
it something that will pass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2007/11/07/what-is-social-media-part-1/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re all learning Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like I am not the only one learning Mandarin this year! And I am not the only one to have discovered ChinesePod. 
Check out this “learning Chinese” segment that aired as part of the recent “China Rising” series on NBC Nightly News: 




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		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2007/11/07/were-all-learning-chinese/</link>
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		<title>Paul is learning Chinese #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m coming up to the 10 month mark of my study of Mandarin Chinese using ChinesePod. I had 2 goals when I signed up for ChinesePod last January:
#1- To learn as much Chinese as I could in one year.
#2- To assess the effectiveness of the ChinesePod instructional design and delivery model (podcasting, e-learning, social networking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2007/10/30/paul-is-learning-chinese-4/</link>
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		<title>Designing a Leadership Development Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For most of my clients, leadership development has risen to the top of the agenda over the past year or so.  As strategies to build leadership capacity are considered, I often hear of dissatisfaction with the traditional model of leadership development (You know the model I’m talking about. It’s the one where you send [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelearningguys.com/2007/10/04/designing-a-leadership-development-program/</link>
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