This course really went in depth on how media and videos enhanced the learning process for Instructional Design. Web technologies change on a daily basis, so informal and implicit learning is necessary to keep up with the technologies of today.

My experience with Learning Communities goes back to 2005 when 3-Learning was a really new way of training as opposed to traditional classroom training in the Pharmaceutical Industry.  I first began by creating Facilitator Guides and Participant guides for Clinical Trial Management Systems.  The diversity of expertise was varied, as we worked with Clinical Data Managers, Doctors, Clinical Sites, and Clinical Trial Coordinators at different sites.

Frank Smith (1988) argues that children will learn to read and write if the people they admire read and write. That is, they will want to join the "literacy club" and will work hard to become members. Brown, Ellery, and Campione (1998) argue that there has been a change in the demand on schools, toward a goal of producing expert learners or "intelligent novices."

This change has been brought on by (1) increasing knowledge, such that no one can absorb in school everything they will need to know in life, and by (2) the changing demands of work, where technology can carry out low-level tasks, requiring workers who can think abstractly and learn new skills. So given that we want people who know how to learn, it follows from Smith's argument that children will learn to be learners by joining a "learning club."

I am an Instructional Designer for adults and I have not created very many computer based trainings for children, but based on personal experience, I LOVED reading and spent countless hours in the library. I enjoyed reading because Martin Luther King did the same as a child, going to libraries and reading.