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Games for Learning about Conflict
Ellen Grove presents a model for conflict recognition and resolution using practical games that teams can use to help clarify differing viewpoints and seek resolution.
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Making Software Development Make Sense to Everyone
Jen Myers discusses the need to make software development attractive and accessible to a larger audience, improving the overall development and learning process in order to have better programmers.
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Everything I Have Learned I Have Learned From Someone Else
David Nolen keynotes on how developers learn as seen in a number of diverse examples drawn from objected oriented user interface programming to constraint logic programming.
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Don’t Trust Your Brain
Paolo Perrotta discusses the difficulties encountered while learning a new and quite different programming language, in his case Clojure, comparing it with Java and Ruby.
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Groovy for Fun and Profit
Ken Kousen presents a variety of small but non-trivial examples of Groovy in action, using techniques ranging from closures to parsers and slurpers to metaprogramming and AST transformations.
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Grails Goodness
Ken Kousen teaches the fundamentals of Grails through examples: domain classes, controllers, transactional services, producing XML and JSON data, Ajax, unit and integration testing, plugins.
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Using Group Research to Answer Complex Questions
Joanna Zweig leads a workshop for practicing Cooperative Inquiry, a group learning technique meant to provide answers to complex questions based on group’s wisdom and knowledge.
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Building a Learning Organization (from any level)
Matt Barcomb discusses “amplifying learning”, focusing on setting up learning environments and common organizational pitfalls.
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Discovery Curves, Group Learning and Delivering
Joanna Zweig and César Idrovo discuss Discovery Curves - a model to chart a team’s ability to learn-, and a group improvement process using past experiences and identifying common characteristics.
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) with Cloud 4 Education
Ruth Lennon discusses the challenges, the benefits and the lessons learned transitioning from a traditional education form to a BYOD in the cloud-based one.
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Lowering the Total Cost of an Agile Change and Transformation Program
Alex Adamopoulos emphasizes the need for hands-on learning, a method that is faster, cheaper and produces better results than taking some training or certification courses.
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Behind the Mirror
Chris Granger discusses the need for enhancing the learning tools starting from his own experience watching through a mirror people trying to solve problems at Microsoft.