Self Education: Five Essential Sites

by Jeff Cobb

Big lists of free online courses, Web tools, learning games, and other resources for lifelong learners are relatively easy to find, but sites with a serious focus on helping people along the journey of self-education are fewer and farther between. Here are five you may want to bookmark or add to your feed reader. Read more >>

Collaboration and Learning – What Are Your Examples?

by Jeff Cobb

A while back Karen Schweitzer did a guest post here titled 15 Free Online Collaboration Tools and Apps. Karen is skilled at writing popular posts, but even so, I have been surprised at how much traffic this one has attracted. Apparently people are hungry for free online collaboration tools.

Meanwhile, on other fronts, an attendee at a recent Webinar I was part of noted that collaborative learning … Read more >>

Who are your curators?

by Jeff Cobb

I had already planned to write a post about “curators” today when I noticed that Jeff De Cagna has posted about the “content challenge” over on SmartBlog. He sees “content curation” as one of the most significant innovation opportunities available to organizations. We’re in agreement on that and have spoken together about it before. Here on Mission to Learn, though, I’d like to focus on it as one of the most significant innovation opportunities for individual lifelong learners.

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New Learning Monitor is Out

February 26, 2010

Earlier this week I pushed “Send” on a new edition of the Learning Monitor, my twice-quarterly round-up of learning links, news and insights. To get this most recent edition, simply subscribe, confirm, and it will be automatically sent to your inbox.
Here’s what one reader wrote in after reading the latest edition:

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7 Secrets of a 9 Billion Dollar Industry

February 24, 2010

Want to know how to change your life, achieve pretty much anything, and make yourself rich to boot? There is a huge “self help” industry out there eager to help you do it.

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