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Saturday, July 13, 2002

10:03:50 AM Beautiful day here. I'm trying to wrap up the course preparation for next week and turn over the last of the documentation to a client. If I can get it done by 1 PM I just might get to the beach.

9:54:30 AM A Model for Blended Learning. But why do so many blended learning initiatives turn into frustrating boondoggles, consuming far more time and money than anyone anticipated? The answer -- just as with most troubled initiatives -- can be found in poor planning (i.e., instructional design), the bitter fruits of which often appear during the implementation of training, or long after substantial amounts of time, money and enthusiasm have been expended. [elearningpost]

1:24:27 AM E-learning, Online Learning, Web-based Learning, or Distance Learning It's still rock and roll to me...

1:17:54 AM Wisdom is, like knowledge, something personal that has to be elaborated intimately, that unlike data and information, is bound to certain people and is lost when they disappear. For this reason it's almost impossible to transmit it directly.
Information Visualization magazine.

1:00:39 AM It's funny. I've spent thousands of hours teaching college students and adults, and I've come to a blindingly simple conclusion: People learn because they are interested. People are learning machines. Can't stop 'em. But....no interest, no learning. Not in any real sense, anyway. Many of the problems we have in our education factories learning stem from a simple Cluetrain-ish fact - there's no market for messages.

12:29:38 AM This kicks! I'm in T.O. all next week teaching and there's a blogger thang courtesy of MeetUp. Which I only just heard about by way of Doc last week.

12:15:02 AM Officially fifty percent of my email is now spam. Talk about asymmetrical warfare. Wordfare?

12:10:06 AM Strange name for a blog? Yeah, but it's the truth.

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