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From the New Scientist. Of particular interest is that idea that extrinsic reward jeopardises intrinsic motivation.

The big question is, if banks wanted to stop paying bonuses on this basis, could they? Who would be brave enough to jump first?

Not really an ed tech thing but we've been looking at motivation theory at work recently and it sort of fits in with my MSc work on change management 

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Draft chapter from Grainne Conole from the OU discussing how web2.0 based tools can affect teaching and learning, the literacies required to expoit them properly and a look at the OU Cloudworks tool

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Counter intuitive results to a survey by Citrix about the age of people driving social networking in businesses. 

It doesn't seem to comment on to what extent the Gen Y-ers are using it outside of work and are reluctant to use it as professional tool.

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The US Dept of Defence has taken quite an enlightened approach to the use of social media by its employees. This site outlines how they've balanced the opportunities with the risks.

In short, they've recognised that using web 2.0 social media sites can have operational benefit even in an environment where security of systems and information is paramount.

Wonder how their experience with Wikileaks has impacted on this recently.

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Prezi on corporate storytelling techniques. I was interested in this as I've been thinking that the stuff I've been looking at for Digital Storytelling has applications in business. \n\nThis is principally about sales and marketing where I'd been thinking about it as a training and development tool but it's a reminder that the principle of storytelling is alive and well in business.

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Good overview of the T&D industry. It's quite good fun looking at the questions in bold, coming up with your own answers then reading his answers.

Interesting view on evaluating T&D.

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Here's a selection of interviews of OU staff by Martin Weller in preparation for the Open University Conference this year. He talks to Martin Bean, the Vice Chancellor who's a really engaging speaker and Grainne Conole (who edited our main text for TELIC) and 2 others.

Some interesting thoughts about the opportunities and risks of moving to a more open learning environment in universities.

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Thought Helen might like these in the light of her last posting about Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. 

Lindsay works at the Uni of the Arts in London and has done a series of 4 posts on her responses to a keynote by Wenger last month, of which this is the first.

It was about how technology can help facilitate communities of practice and questions if identity and learning.

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I love Nick's blog. Although he is an online learning manager very little of what he talks about is technological. His background is psychology.

The question I took away from this is "how would you teach something is you couldn't threaten learners with a test afterwards?"

Most of our learning system seems built around this threat.

Also, perhaps this "how do we teach?" question is a red herring. I am learner, not a teachee.

I wish I could remember who said "the worst way to learn something is to be taught."

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I really like this idea of mashing up a system which is usually provided by large scale institutional systems like PebblePad. It has a slight EduPunk feel about it.

You could argue that using a system like this encourages digital engagement more than a purpose-bought system might.#

You might also argue that it strengthens Google's grip on the web tools market.

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Innovations sometimes happen in times of crisis or in response to changing circumstance. This is a breakdown of a debate hosted by JISC and the Guardian about how universities could change and collaborate more in an environment where funding is being squeezed and the nature of what universities are actually for is being challenged.

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If you're interested in communities of practice, social identity and the point where technology meets both then you may Etienne's work useful. I saw him present a keynote recently and he opened up a lot of questions for me. I just wish I'd cottoned on to him before as I've not had any time to catch up on reading his published work.

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A piece of commentary on some writing by Brown, Hagela and Davison. It suggests a move from a Push economy (where services, products, knowledge etc are pushed into the marketplace to meet an anticipated need) and the Pull economy where organisations and individuals are set up to take advantage of connections to get the right service at the right time.

That's not a good summary but it's worth reading. I've been reflecting on its relevance to education (itself mostly a Push system)  - are we educating people to take advantage of this emerging economy - but also the technology perspective - communication on collaboration tools are a great enabler for this idea of Pull.

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