Archive for Archive for May, 2008
more thoughts on Web 2.0
With all the talk about Web 2.0 these days, web technology users in all walks of life are learning many of the same lesson. One of the most important of these is how important it is to let an organization’s mission drive its use of this technology rather than vice versa.
Corporate users simply are [...]
Technologies for Learning
Alban Weekly feature article, May 19, 2008
Wayne Whitson Floyd, Education Department Manager
At Alban we take seriously our educational mission to provide an independent center of learning that creates spaces where people from different denominations and faith traditions can work toward their goals and learn from one another in an atmosphere of respect and collegiality. Whatever [...]
How adults learn
One of the least discussed topics in adult religious and theological education seems to be the distinctive qualities of adult learners. How adults learn simply is different from the way we learn at earlier ages; yet so much about our approach to adult-education has been drawn from the models of ‘education’ that we learned [...]