Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Oct 12, 2005.
#356- Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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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 on "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 Learning2005 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) 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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resources to have teams of new employees build their own employee
handbooks.

There are dozens of great resources on WebQuests:

* Search on "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 Learning2005 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) 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.