I've set up a Corporate Learning Group at PeopleAggregator.net .  This little social app was created by Marc Cantor .  Go ahead and sign up.  It also looks like peopleaggregator will generate a "friends" widget to put into your blog, but maybe that's only if you blog with their blogging system...not sure.  It would be fun to collaborate somewhere with other Corporate Learning Professionals and this seemed like a better idea than Myspace.com :) ...

... that relate directly to what's happening in corporate learning, but one of the high level trends that made me think came from Matt Glotzbach, Head of Products at Google Enterprise. The point that Matt made was the corporate IT has gone from leading technology innovation to being a laggard that adopts after consumers. It used to be that your corporate ... blogs and wikis into their classroom experiences much more readily than in the corporate land. Is that our destiny in the world of eLearning 2.0? Is Corporate Learning going to continue to be a Laggard?

Wow! I was checking in at my PeopleAggregator page giving a colleague a demo and noticed that my Group, Corporate Learning , has 5 members.  One member is from Amsterdam blogging at Quantum-Playshuns , and TrainUtopia ( blog , website ) has checked in as well.  There’s a couple others that look like they are just checking things out and that’s cool too.  Honestly, I didn’t think anyone would sign in and join the group.  5 is a great number.  Anyone else care to join the Corporate Learning conversation at ...

Arriving right on the heels of DevLearn , the free (and 100% online) Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations ... developments, track emerging opportunities, network with other learning pioneers, and deal with topics you don't find at the conferences you have to travel to." Check out these links for more information about the conference: Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 web site List of events (Note: All times are Pacific.) Blog LIVE ... learning and technology world. A quick glance at the agenda shows Jay Cross, Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, Tony Karrer, ...

I will be attending the free, online conference, Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 , at Ning.com ... learning and technology initiatives relate to and support corporate strategies. Defence Acquisition University ... ;Join us to explore new developments, track emerging opportunities, and network with learning pioneers.” There ... of the learning industry, you should join the conversation .  Can you really afford to miss this free opportunity ... Learning Professional Should Have in their Toolbox November 17, 2008 from 8am to 8:45am - Conference ...

... liked. JayFeeds | JayFeeds - River View JayFeeds is a group of twenty blogs that I enjoy reading. Most focus on corporate learning. Less is more. Ageless Learner Blog Connect @ EDUCAUSE BABSONKNOWLEDGE.ORG cogdogblog ... Jarche Jane Knight, eLearning Centre Joho the Blog Parkin's Lot Internet Time Blog InformL Blog Robin Good's Latest News Dave Lee's eelearning The Experience Designer Network The Learning Circuits Blog ... Stephen Downes' Edu-RSS had been my favorite source of learning & education news for years. Stephen is on ...

... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... Corporate Training eCornell & Cornell Events Higher Ed Learning Design ... blogging applications. Posted by David Shoemaker at 10:22 PM in Corporate Training , Higher ... . Posted by David Shoemaker at 05:11 PM in Corporate Training , Learning Design , Technology | Permalink ... . Posted by David Shoemaker at 11:29 AM in Corporate Training , Higher Ed , Learning ...

... the formal training development processes in the context of the new informal learning world.  Its the difference between reading the blogs of my 2 colleague's in learning:  Mark Oehlert and Tony Karrer . Mark and I revel in the ... Again, Tony helps me clarify my thoughts.  Thanks Tony.  (I love this about blogging!) I went back and re ... future will look like.  I know many, many corporate training folks who agree that the small committee style project ... learning colleagues at Intel.  Our goal has been to try and figure out Learning at Intel 2.0.  This is a ...

Blogs are knowledge objects that can make bottom-up (i.e. useful) knowledge management a reality. As you may be aware, I've become a champion of using Web 2.0 technology to upgrade corporate learning and performance. In his Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization ( JOHO }, David Weinberger describes the role of blogs inside corporations : I continue to believe that for many companies the best path to blogging is by using them internally as a knowledge management tool ... company gets used to internal blogs, it's only natural (if anything about a corporation can be said to be natural) ...

November 17-21, 2008 | Online | Free Come to Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 if you want to ... to gain insight into what's going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of corporate learning. Structure? Who ... . Check out the line-up of catalysts at the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 site. November 17-21, 2008 ... : Corporate Learning Ecology Last year nearly 2,000 people participated. Can we top that this year? George Siemens, Tony Karrer, and I are hosting Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 as a labor of love. Drop by the ...

... to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning. Background If you are not familiar with the ... of Sales. Impact How does this impact the world of learning organizations and corporate learning functions (training organizations)? Consider the following: Corporate learning functions today act like a ... information resources and corporate learning is an ever smaller part of this set. Cost is most often not a ... Corporate Learning as a traditional publisher will be able to focus on an ever smaller portion of the knowledge ...

As I recently announced , I'm helping George Siemens to organize Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations . When you go to the conference page via the link above, you can see that it's a big wiki. People are already in putting in their names, ideas, etc. There's also a link to the To Do page. Currently, this page lists some tasks that I'm sure I could figure out how to do, but I'm hoping that some reader might be willing to take on... Add .vcf files next to each ... conversion Add help links for editing the Wiki Blog tag? "CLTI" has been suggested. Add a page that might show ...

... post Corporate Learning Laggards? I think the comment is so good that I'm writing a blog post to respond to the ... comment stream. Thus, I'd hate for readers of my blog to miss out on something that I think is pretty interesting. At the same time, this feels lame? Part of the issue is that I have only rudimentary stats on readership of my blog and I'm making some assumptions about how people read my blog and how they participate. More specifically, I have a rough idea of ... blog site itself, but very few maybe 50 will come through an RSS reader. Thus, most people do what I do: Most blog ...

... said - I am opposed to the trend coming from the corporate learning side of the house to treat PLEs as work tools. What is it about people in corporate learning that they feel the need to perpetuate the attitude of servitude it seems all learners must adopt. We don't exist to work for a corporation; our learning, our minds , our most valuable asset of ... corporate e-learning consultants, and they wanna hear what they wanna hear. Meanwhile - for the rest of us - the reason ... for corporations to come to grips with the ownership of the learning if it is captured in a system. Certainly, if ...

... reading. The article, " Social Networking and Corporate Learning " is a quick read and could serve as a jumping-off ... networks in the corporate learning environment . For a one-pager, it's packed with a laundry list of concepts and discussion points to explore in your presentation. A list of corporate case studies is always a valuable section to ... integrated with corporate learning programs. I'd recommend starting with that laundry list to fast-track the process of ... Attribution: Flickr photo by YellowFilter The October 2008 issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine had ...

The Learning Circuit’s Blog Big Question for December is “What did you learn about learning in 2008 ... back through a year of blog posts.  Whew! I saw several recurrent threads, but the strongest one is on learning to learn.  I think we’ve seen more focus on that this year, particularly with Tony Karrer & Michelle Martin’s Work Literacy effort, and a lot of the discussion at the Corporate Learning Trends conference (most recently). It ... TogetherLearn thinking, where it’s about helping people help themselves, but not taking the self-directed and learn ...

SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management ... between the LMS and the virtual learning environment (VLE). LMSs (Saba, SumTotal, SkillPort, etc.) are for corporates who ... Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I ...

... to the pre-defined locations. - Or just plainly get your students involved in finding a new learning application that uses QR code. But what about corporate learning? You could use this type of technology ... , buildings, corporations, websites... and you start putting your learning activity together. What ideas do ... blog on QR codes . His blog got my mind buzzing with possibilities. While reading through its possibilites ... is mentioned on the corporate flyer... Or dispense a flyer with all the mobile courses mentioned in QR codes and ...

Frank Girolami blogs over at FPG Resources .  It's important that we continue to build our community of practice in the bloggosphere.  I love hearing from others that have recently started blogging.  Thanks for the kind note and welcome to the Corporate Learning bloggosphere.

... excellent!  ( Work Literacy Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals , 25 Tools by Jane Hart , and Corporate Learning Trends ... blog, The Maricopa Experience , to learn more about how she uses Ning in a learning environment (VoiceThread presentation ... Use Ning to build online communities and memorable learning experiences.  Ning is a free social networking ... want to build online learning workshops. I was trying to explain Ning to a group of people today when I came across Michele Martin’s blog post “Course Community Building with Ning” .  She shares a presentation ...

In the corporate learning conference organised by George Siemens, Steve Mahaley was second to give a presentation on using virtual worlds for education. Education was defined in this presentation as a corporate business strategy to ... favourite class = recess, he concluded that the best learning activities are those using all of our senses to interact with an educational environment. Several learning theorists were put onto display: Lev Vygotsky , John Dewey and David Jonassen who based their theories on 'Learning by doing' and social interaction to enhance education. Steve ...

Corporate Learning Ecology The conference runs November 17-2008. It's online. And it's free. If you want to attend ... George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the second annual free online conference: Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two thousand ... Fitness for Peak Health and Performance Dave Gray: Visual Literacy, Learning Innovation Kevin Wheeler: The Future of ... - The Amazon Model and Forum Model - the intersection of LMS and Learning 2.0 Jane Hart - 25 Free Tools Every Learning ...

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... as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer panel discussion where it seemed that supporting informal learning or communities of practice was not something they were considering. There was also discussion on my blog around the fact that in corporations there is a limit to what we can do as a training organization (see Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape ). All of this makes me wonder: Do educational institutions and corporate learning & ...

... as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer panel discussion where it seemed that supporting informal learning or communities of practice was not something they were considering. There was also discussion on my blog around the fact that in corporations there is a limit to what we can do as a training organization (see Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape ). All of this makes me wonder: Do educational institutions and corporate learning & ...

Trend: Podcasting in Academic and Corporate Learning Why is podcasting becoming such a hot trend -- it's doing for audio what blogs did for text. ... Visual Literacy Bringing Fresh Visions to Tired Cliches. Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique? There are important differences. Are differences attributable to different cultures or to different stages of corporate development? An interview with John Hagel (audio) Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Hagel, who with co-author ...

Blog Watch Seeking Advice: Im Interested in E-Learning: What Shoudl I Do First? >> from the Learning Circuits Blog   ROI od CEO as Blogger >> from the New Learning Playbook Blog Video and Screencast Styles for Corporate Learning >> from the eLearning Technology Blog The Play Element of Learning Leadership >> from the Learning Matters blog   Learning Styles Dont Exist >> from the Clive on Learning Blog ...

Blog Watch Seeking Advice: Im Interested in E-Learning: What Shoudl I Do First? >> from the Learning Circuits Blog   ROI od CEO as Blogger >> from the New Learning Playbook Blog Video and Screencast Styles for Corporate Learning >> from the eLearning Technology Blog The Play Element of Learning Leadership >> from the Learning Matters blog   Learning Styles Dont Exist >> from the Clive on Learning Blog ...