Keeping informed

The Learning Blogosphere: Learning blogs River view Cloud Flow page

A Dozen Blogs Maish Nichani highlights an important learning story or concept every day. Great blog to track if you’re tracking only one.

Stephen Downes, a researcher at Canada’s National Research Center, tracks & gives his opinions about an enormous amount of information learning, the web, academia, trends, standards, etc. If it’s worth knowing about, Stephen will probably cover it.

Here’s a Pageflake summary of important eLearning blogs.

Donald Clark, founder and former CEO of Epic, the UK’s largest eLearning house. A brilliant Scot with a keen sense of humor, Donald loves pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.

Clive Shepherd, an astute, influential UK eLearning consultant..

George Siemens, Canadian academic. Father of Connectivism, which posits the knowledge is no longer confined by our skulls; it’s in our networks. His links blog is good, too.

Mark Oehlert is the go-to guy for serious gaming in learning.

Harold Jarche is an independent consultant in Canada who blogs daily about learning design, open software, and practical approaches to informal learning.

David Weinberger talks tags, search, and practical knowledge management better than any of the rest of us.

Clark Quinn is a cognitive scientist, fan of learning games, bright bulb in mobile learning, and all-around clear thinker.

Dave Gray thinks visually.

Jane Hart somehow finds a new elearning tool every day.