WikiWeb needed for eLearning

Bhanar:

Your perception is very good. There is one other element to consider. There is an old say which fits your theme: “If Siemens only knew what Siemens knows.” There was a study of Siemens which tracked threads of knowledge for which Siemens paid dearly. The study documented that at different times, different sub-parts of the company would have the same issues, create a team to study and solve the issue and put the solution in to effect – several times over.

While revisiting an issue (with fresh knowledge) is sometimes valuable, yet we need some crafty way of finding what we know. Search engines seem to be part of the answer. Here is Helen's take:

Helen: I am member of a number of communities, who can learn a lot from each other. I have been a member of AoH for 18 months: it has so much knowledge that they don't know they have. ENexus is the only way that the community can see what it knows, and be able to consult it. We need to catalog the knowledge that is out there and encourage people to bring it to the unloading bay. Put it where it makes sense to everything else. This is not a job that can be done by one person, but by a community - to attend to the knowledge garden. To start: the community of AoH - what did we learn​?

http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/wiki/notes_skype_conversation_hosting_online_community

Finding out what “we” know is part of eLearning-- probably the most valuable part since if we can “reload” what others have learned, we can save our time and broadcast the new knowledge in a wider swath.

The solution is the use of two tools: A WikiWebSite which allows comments, edits, nesting, new material; and, secondly, a good search engine. The forum (or the old “Bulletin Board”) approach is not the best tool. Blogs are a forum approach. We need a WikiWeb approach. Currently, I am using www.wetpaint.com as my wiki. There are plenty of good open source software programs for wikiwebs. What we need is a good WikiWeb administrator to set up our Barefoot Wiki. Once you get used to using it, you will seldom want to use a forum approach to eLearning.

Jim Miller

jimmiller5417-at- yahoo.com