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For Fear of Failure

For Fear Of Failure

Nick Leffler
March 23, 2015

What keeps you from trying something new?

I grapple with this question in my work life and home life. We tend to stick to the things we know which keeps us from trying new things. You’ve seen that right? If you’re in L&D then the answer should be yes, but this isn’t about L&D.

My theory

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You Should Comment More

Nick Leffler
March 5, 2015

If you’re not a blogger or don’t write on a regular basis, you should. It doesn’t have to be difficult to write, you don’t have to have a website, you don’t even have to have a topic to write about. The easiest way to write and continue to write is just to simply comment on

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Work out Loud

Work Out Loud – Don’t Just Share What You Did

Nick Leffler
February 15, 2015

Today is the last day of my four-day journey to cover my thoughts on this week’s topics for the online cMOOC Exploring Innovations in Networked Work and Learning. I’ve already covered the wonderful topics of crowdsourcing, Read More

Communities of Practice are a network not a hierarchy

Communities of Practice Need Some Practice

Nick Leffler
February 14, 2015

This is my 3rd post in my journey to cover my thoughts and ideas on the four topics covered in week 3 of the Exploring Innovations in Networked Work and Learning cMOOC. So far, I’ve covered Crowdsourcing and Read More

It's One Big Networked World

Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

Nick Leffler
February 13, 2015

Yesterday I started the first of my four-part series covering my thoughts and impressions on the four topics presented in week 3 of the MSLOC430 cMOOC. I started with crowdsourcing, the message I came away with there are so many problems that can

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It's One Big Networked World

The Things We Can Do With Crowdsourcing Are Limitless (But Hard)

Nick Leffler
February 12, 2015

I’m going to take the next four days to post a topic a day from the MSLOC430 cMOOC I’m participating in, or maybe the correct term is reading in. I don’t feel like I’m the best participant because I haven’t joined into the co-authored document (an example of crowdsourcing I suppose) defining all these objects

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What is Community Of Inquiry

Communities of Inquiry

Nick Leffler
February 5, 2015

I want to preface this post with the following information:

Before a few days ago I had never heard the term Community of Inquiry, which is exactly why I’ve chosen to write and learn about it.

Now for the why because I wouldn’t just pull this one out of a hat and decide to delve

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When You’re Feeling Unmotivated

Nick Leffler
January 27, 2015

I sat down this evening to write a post I’ve had in my idea pad for some time. I was going to write about mobile and the enterprise. Tonight I feel unmotivated to write about either of those.

Sometimes a topic sounds of great interest, and other times your brain isn’t in that same through

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Discussing Life

Social Learning Has Never Been About a Single Tool

Nick Leffler
January 20, 2015

I noticed a ReTweet from Shannon Tipton yesterday morning where she was disagreeing with the flop part of the following blog post: What eLearning Trends Will Pop, Flop and Flip in 2015? (the link has been removed because it no longer exists anywhere I can find)

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At The Cafe Talking

Learning From Others

Nick Leffler
January 5, 2015

Over a year ago I began to share what I am learning at the moment. I did this through the hashtag #LrnToday which I also encouraged others to do.

It’s been a while since I’ve reflected on how well it has worked and how I’ve updated it. A while being since

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