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356 - WebQuests - Cool Idea from Schools for Corporate Learning
October 12, 2005
Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Oct 12, 2005.
#356 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
51,405 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Learning 2005: Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Orlando, Florida.
WebQuests: An Idea from Schools for Corporate Learning
WebQuests - a simple and powerful learning method that has become quite popular in elementary and secondary schools that can be leveraged and adopted for corporate learning.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet. Bernie Dodge from San Diego State University has advocated and pushed this concept forward as both a powerful teaching method and also a way to increase collaboration and critical thinking skills.
Tom Marsh extends that definition: "A WebQuest is a scaffolded learning structure that uses links to essential resources on the World Wide Web and an authentic task to motivate students' investigation of a central, open-ended question, development of individual expertise and participation in a final group process that attempts to transform newly acquired information into a more sophisticated understanding. The best WebQuests do this in a way that inspires students to see richer thematic relationships, facilitate a contribution to the real world of learning and reflect on their own metacognitive processes."
Here is a simple example of a WebQuest designed by a classroom teacher to explore the music of Mozart:
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/mozart/Mozartquest.html
From a corporate experience, imagine building a new employee orientation as a WebQuest, leveraging both the corporate intranet and other web resources to have teams of new employees build their own employee handbooks.
There are dozens of great resources on WebQuests:
* Search "webquest" on Google or MSN Search
* Here is a key link to a portal page on WebQuests: http://webquest.org/
* There is even a cool on-line authoring and design tool, QuestGarden, for teachers and instructors to use to create a webquest:
http://webquest.org/questgarden/author/
We will conduct a "conversation" at Learning 2005 at one of our general sessions about adapting the core educational threads of a WebQuest for adaption as a corporate and organizational learning tool. Information on the event (Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Orlando) available at http://www.learning2005.com
Let's keep looking across the "river" for effective learning innovations developing in the K-12, college and religious education spaces that can be adpated for corporate learning.
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
#356 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
51,405 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Learning 2005: Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Orlando, Florida.
WebQuests: An Idea from Schools for Corporate Learning
WebQuests - a simple and powerful learning method that has become quite popular in elementary and secondary schools that can be leveraged and adopted for corporate learning.
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet. Bernie Dodge from San Diego State University has advocated and pushed this concept forward as both a powerful teaching method and also a way to increase collaboration and critical thinking skills.
Tom Marsh extends that definition: "A WebQuest is a scaffolded learning structure that uses links to essential resources on the World Wide Web and an authentic task to motivate students' investigation of a central, open-ended question, development of individual expertise and participation in a final group process that attempts to transform newly acquired information into a more sophisticated understanding. The best WebQuests do this in a way that inspires students to see richer thematic relationships, facilitate a contribution to the real world of learning and reflect on their own metacognitive processes."
Here is a simple example of a WebQuest designed by a classroom teacher to explore the music of Mozart:
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/mozart/Mozartquest.html
From a corporate experience, imagine building a new employee orientation as a WebQuest, leveraging both the corporate intranet and other web resources to have teams of new employees build their own employee handbooks.
There are dozens of great resources on WebQuests:
* Search "webquest" on Google or MSN Search
* Here is a key link to a portal page on WebQuests: http://webquest.org/
* There is even a cool on-line authoring and design tool, QuestGarden, for teachers and instructors to use to create a webquest:
http://webquest.org/questgarden/author/
We will conduct a "conversation" at Learning 2005 at one of our general sessions about adapting the core educational threads of a WebQuest for adaption as a corporate and organizational learning tool. Information on the event (Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Orlando) available at http://www.learning2005.com
Let's keep looking across the "river" for effective learning innovations developing in the K-12, college and religious education spaces that can be adpated for corporate learning.
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
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