I have recently become interested in neuroscience and the associated topic of neuroleadership courtesy of the Neuroleadership Organization.  As recent discoveries in the field of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging are demonstrating, how people approach problems and react to their world is far from the rational economic man model but rather, has a logic all of its own.  I recently read James Zull’s The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning which takes a neuroscientific approach to how we learn.  Some great insights which I plan to develop into a new training and education method based on the latest neuroscience findings.

Some interesting topics ranging from Grassroots video and Collaboration Webs to Social Operating Systems.  Education is undergoing some profound changes especially in the areas of group learning.

Courtesy of Slideshare - Personal Knowledge Management in Higher Education

I gave this presentation twice while suffering from a particularly nasty flu bug.  I received several nice comments on it which is encouraging as I continue to improve the framework.  (Cross-posted on Eclectic Bill).

P.S. - I am still fighting this bug but I will try to stick to a regular blogging schedule from here on in.

Last Monday and Tuesday, I gave two presentations on my updated research on personal knowledge management systems for faculty.  A lot has changed since the last year-and-a-half that I gave the first presentation on PKMS including the entry of Google and Microsoft in the education market and the ever-expanding list of Web 2.0 tools that are available.

The biggest change has been the emphasis on using Web 2.0 in teaching.  The best example of this is Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies which now catalogs over  2,000 elearning tools.  When I first spoke about wikis and blogs, I had a catalog of just under 100 tools to share.  As the explosion in tools demonstrate, this field is rapidly growing and becoming an integral part of today’s teaching.