Mob Rule Learning : Camps, Unconferences, and Trashing the Talking Head (Paperback)

from sullijo

Michelle Boule has written a good introductory guide to learning communities. Her over-arching theme is that the distributed knowledge of crowds is an untapped resource for professional development and learning. As someone who both attends and helps plan conferences on a regular basis I came away...

from ricksbooks

"Mob Rule Learning" is an overview of crowd-oriented learning techniques that is divided into two distinct and somewhat disconnected halves. The first part focuses on unconferences (aka "camps") while the second is directed toward how these are/might be applied to university and professional lear...

from lbmillar

I found this to be a very interesting book. It discusses how tradition conferences and learning environments do not meet today's requirements and how to host an unconference or apply to classroom situations. I was familiar with some of the techniques while some were new. Examples and case studies...

from mitchellray

Mob rule learning, as described by Michelle Boule in her book by that name, is about creating participatory learning communities around a topic of shared interest. She not only provides a description and rationale for participant-designed learning events, which she refers to as camps or unconfere...

from thebookpile

I was very much looking forward to this book but when I got to the end of it, I felt disappointed. This really seems like a case where the content would have made for a number of very interesting blog posts instead of a printed book, with links to the discussed tools and explanations on facilitat...