I know that there are a lot of good people and organizations out there doing research around elearning topics right now, but I have to say that from the corporate standpoint - the eLearning Guild is really doing some great work. I also wanted to call attention to two items - first is the Guild's Research Blog   - curently manned by the Director of Reseearch himself - Steve Wexler. The nice thing about the blog is that the posts are usually centered around ... thoughts to the eLearning 2.0 Survey . I'd also encourage you to follow and comment on Steve's blog. You really ...

In preparation of the live blogging I have planned during the eLearning Guilds Annual Gathering , I list my schedule. If any of you are planning to blog on this conference, let me know your schedule, we could link to one another ... : Evidence-based e-Learning Methods to Build Creative Thinking Skills by Ruth Clark. Session 302 at 02.30pm: Mobile Learning Today and Tomorrow by Judy Brown. Session 408 at 04.00 pm: Storyboarding for e-Learning ... (eLearning and activism). Roaring to go on this topic! Wednesday 16 April at 7.15 - 8.15 am (okay, ...

While I'm on the topic of enterprise wikis I might as well plug my session for The eLearning Guild's Online Forum that kicked off today: An Introduction to e-Learning: The A to Z for Getting Started Concurrent Session Block 4 Friday, September 21 â€" 8:30a to 9:45a 401 | E-Learning Metrics that Work Bob Dust , Gyrus Systems ... 502 | An Introduction to Blogs, Wikis, and RSS - New Technologies for e-Learning Brent Schlenker , The eLearning Guild Closing General Session Friday, September 21 â€" 12:00n to 1:15p ...

... say "thank you" enough to Brent Schlenker and the rest of the eLearning Guild staff for putting on such a ... Anywhere: A Case Study of Mobile Learning at Qualcomm , along with Barbara Ludwig . (The slides are below; I’ll try ... wasn’t able to learn much new info today (I was a bit preoccupied with my presentation and getting to the airport on time), I will defer to two bloggers who did manage to post today. Surf on over to read Clark Quinn’s blog and Brian Dusablon’s blog for updates on Day 3 of DevLearn. And again, don’t forget the other ...

In case you’re not getting enough DevLearn 2008 coverage, here’s a list of awesome bloggers who are writing about their experiences here in San Jose: Jay Cross (also here) Brian Dusablon Josh Goldman Kevin Jones Tony Karrer Mark Oehlert Clark Quinn Brent Schlenker Wendy Wickham Did I accidentally leave you off the list? If so - I’m sorry! Please add a comment with a link to your blog.        ...

March 08, 2005 eLearning Guilds "Current Trends in e-Learning ... capture certain key trends in e-learning, as reported by The eLearning Guild Members and Associates through their ... Circuits Internet Time The eLearning Guild eLearnopedia.com elearnspace T+D Blog ... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... you already know about instructional design. Unfortunately, you need to be a member of The eLearning Guild to ...

E-learning on a Shoestring: Help for the Chronically Underfunded - Jane Bozarth bozarthzone.com I was able to sit in on the eLearning Guild's Online Forums today and here is a collection of notes from this presentation. For every ... (The Mona Lesa created with MS Paint)...whewww....what a lot of work. "Good elearning comes from design rather than the ... compelling than putting your learner into real situations of learning. ie: family struggles, mother trying to feed a family ... Learning Systems http://www.clsllc.com/ each game - $1.80 (only mine, once you download to your own system) Quia $99 ...

Director@Night blog when my Google Alert for eLearning Guild found his blog with this post, Director Pre-Marketing ... DevLearn and the Adobe Learning Summit! This is quite possibly one of the coolest things I've seen in my eLearning career. And that's an industry leading software company focusing a major effort on the eLearning industry and the many elearning developers that have been using their tools to improve the learning process for so many. I was a very early ... . I seriously don't know any specifics, but its exciting to see the synergy between Adobe and The eLearning Guild ...

... eLearningGuild Con 2007, Boston, is done. I'm sitting in Logan with about 2hours to kill before my flight. The last few days were filled with incredible experiences and I didn't stop long enough to write down any of them, or blog them. So, here I sit trying to recall all of the goodness. Instead of writing down one long trip report, I think I'm going to ... there. If you missed my presentation on blogs and wikis, my thoughts are that blogging is a fabulous tool for reflective learning, thinking, and starting conversations. So...here it goes!

... social media tools help shift this and assist this learning) - unique needs Common eLearning 2.0 Scenarios - alongside formal learning - blogs used to answer classroom lessons with blogs - wikis as collaborative learning tools (group ... content flow inside and outside of organization Roles of a Learning Professional in and eLearning 2.0 World Same ... Check out www.jingproject.com People driving 2.0 changes Most eLearning Guild members are reporting to the eLearning ... is, but.... RSS Readers 38% don't use one Blogging - 65% Read Blogs Wikis - 40% read wikis, 37% using a wiki Tony ...

One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning . So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS . "In short, because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content. However because the basic format is simple and primitive, there is no way to encode semantics without building an extension. So in this post, we ... the entire post if you want a brief primer into the background of why RSS is important to Learning ...

I hear Boston is beautiful in April. Better than that, the greatest collection of learning professionals will be at The eLearning Guild 2007 Annual Gathering . If you haven't heard, the Guild recently released an absolutely amazing report titled: Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS) The demand for, and demands of, simulations, scenarios, and serious games Don't forget the long list of other reports including Future Directions in eLearning and ... Javenkoski , but he must have the BEST eLearning gig around. He started blogging thanks to one of Tony Karrer 's ...

My experience has been that ASTD audiences do not blog as much as other audiences such as the eLearning Guild and I commented about that in More eLearning Bloggers . However, I've noticed that there have been quite a few posts discussing ... . ASTD TechKnowledge 2008, Lots of Fun TK08 - Tony Karrer and Implementation of Social Learning How to Add Scenarios to Your Rapid E-Learning Courses...Rapidly! @ ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 (Wednesday) Questions from the audience techknowledge conference More on Better Conferences Formal Learning ...

What a long and inspiring day it’s been. Being a solo elearning and training developer it has been great to just talk with people about eLearning. The community here is second only to the caliber of the presentations. The eLearning Guild did a fabulous job picking the sessions for this year’s event. I’ve had to make some tough choices about which sessions to attend. A lot of people are blogging the event. You can find many posts here . Setting an eLearning Strategy After a day of travel to get here, I started AG08 at 7:15 with this “Breakfast ...

Hamilton saying I attended the eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering this year and one presentation really hit home for me. The speaker mentioned that since he had started blogging, a year previous, he had learned more from blogging and reading ... simple process. Blogging is a wonderful way to learn directly from one another. Each day I read many different postings ... Blog - particularly: Karyn Romeis & Barry Sampson both said - I've learned more via blogging over the past year than I learned in the preceding several years! Read more from Tracy on this in: eLearning 2.0 - I'm trying to DO ...

I will be live blogging from the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering. EXCEPT I forgot my power cord for the laptop. I feel naked! But the guy next to me let me use his just for a bit. If you are here, join me for a “Breakfast Byte” discussion on Social Learning. I will be leading that discussion on Tuesday and will be leading another on integrating SL in an organization on Wednesday during the Learning Management Colloquium.

Compare their blog rolls. A couple just list each other. Others list lists similar to mine: Top Ten eLearning Blogs ... I just saw that several of the Brandon Hall researchers have started blogs: Tom Werner - example post - Why Learning Professionals Shouldn't Just Focus on Learning Tim Sosbe - example post - Pop Quiz: What Do Learning Leaders Care About? Janet Clarey - example post - Why blended learning is not BS Gary Woodill First, let me say ... form the network wouldn't really work. If Brandon Hall or the eLearningGuild had used a distributed hub model, then ...

I'm in Chicago through Tuesday for the eLearning Guild's Summer Seminar Series. More specifically, I'm attending the Collaborative Learning workshop . As described on the Guild's website: Join Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker for a comprehensive look at Web2.0 technologies impacting the learning landscape of YOUR organization. And it WILL impact your organization. This not a question of "IF" but of "WHEN." The influx of technologies like blogs, wikis, and RSS ... bookmarking, tagging and enterprise-level Mashups are changing the way learning organizations think about their learning ...

... personal and work related) and the internet effect workers at home and in the "office". I know the eLearning Guild is also doing a free webinar today on their eLearning 2.0 360 findings as well and may address some of this - who is doing what and where idea. Some of the PEW/Internet findings: Working men and women are equally as likely to blog, but young adults far outpace older workers in their engagement with blogging. Employed internet users ages 18-29 are ... earlier in the year. It caught my attention in relation to the Work Literacy Web 2.0 for Learning ...

... for everyone to use when posting live content online. eLearning Guild AG|08 Live Blogging Start Page This is the first ... Live Blogging is a great way to learn and get more out of your event experience. Tracy Hamilton and Cammy Bean ... ). We will add your blog and RSS to the Guild Start page and to the Pagecast. Do you like to take pictures? Start a ... colleagues. (The eLearning Guild is not responsible for long term twitter addictions.) So, FOLLOW us on twitter and we ... presenters (Ignatia/Inge de Waard) has already planned her live blogging schedule . This is fabulous! Scroll down and ...

I just saw a post - Welcome to My First Post! that was good to see: It was Tony Karrer's session [at eLearningGuild], An Introduction to New e-Learning Technologies that inspired me to start this blog. That's always good to see and makes you hopeful that there actually is some good coming from presenting. But it was also great to see the other comments made by this blogger about what they feel they learned from the conference, a few things they are planning to do ... things you learned. Your aha moments. And a list of the things you plan to do. Capture this in a public forum so ...

The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World . The list of authors represents a blogging who's who, with contributions from Jane Hart , Tony Karrer , Michele Martin , Mark Oehlert , Sanjay Parker , Brent Schlenker , and Will Thalheimer . As usual with Guild reports, there's a good overall ... the report, the authors define Learning 2.0 as 'the idea of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration ... perspective: Learning 2.0 can play an important role in supporting formal learning in terms of active support and ...

Out of the original October 2006: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? , we've seen some pretty amazing discussion. But, we've also reached an interesting point. As Peter posted ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Community Net Worth ... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... . I found that by going through and creating my lists ( eLearning Technology: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog ), I personally learned quite a bit about reasons on both sides. It was a fantastic exercise for my own learning ...

... on social learning technologies (ex. blogs and wikis), you may want to have evangelist(s) at your organization who take lead and emphasize the potential of these tools, show examples, etc. Great discussions about group/department blogs ... ; Tricks When Implementing Social Learning . The session was led by Kevin Jones, GTS. About 15 people attended and we had ... learning is a broad term. We used it to discuss any type of learning that takes place via discussion, sharing, or collaboration. It is not based on technology; however, technology may play a key role. Oftentimes, when social learning ...

... supporting the next generation workforce. And speaking of data... The eLearning Guild 360 Report on Synchronous Learning Systems was released today. A beautiful, comprehensive study well worth a read. SLS will be a huge part of the learning ... blog of late. In his latest post he references THIS CHART from BusinessWeek. Amazing data that might help ...

... will be called, " I'm new to eLearning and I have no idea where to start! " This will be an open session for people who are new to the learning and technology (eLearning) field. I will provide resources, tips, tricks ... groups: Learning Management Systems / AICC / SCORM Tools and technologies Useful blogs, eBooks, and books (e)Learning 2.0 I believe I only have an hour, so I will be covering these from a very high-level; however, I will be ... give to people starting out in the field of learning and technology? I’ll start out with these… ...

Although the use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning is on the up (see Learning 2.0 - an update from the eLearning Guild ), it's also true to say that most employers don't know which way to start (see How are employers responding to ... the announcement , Saba Social will incorporate "comprehensive social networking tools - blogs, communities of ... exchange, build connected communities and extend blended learning." The new system integrates with other tools in the ... ), will provide a gateway to Learning 2.0 for employers who like the idea but are lost for a starting point. Let's hope ...

I attended the panel discussion on 'the future of rapid e-learning tools' at the eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering in Boston today with a misunderstanding. I thought I knew what 'rapid e-learning' meant. After all, LTI Magazine defined raid e-learning as "courseware (live or self-paced) developed in less than three weeks, where SMEs act as the primary ... all -it's e-learning people looking to knock up something quick and dirty (my words not their's). One member of the ... reflected badly on the training department. Whatever, it's clear that even the e-learning professionals aren't ...

... walked us through the Web 2.0 movement and how it has impacted learning and training. Here are some of the notes I took ... . It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” - William Gibson Tim also spoke about machine learning and ... looks impressive and it sounds like the cost is reasonable. 202 - Work Literacy - A Key to e-Learning 2.0 Success ... workers, work and learning are inseparable. We are always learning. We are making a transition from information workers to concept workers. 309 - Learning 2.0 and Workplace Communities ( David Wilkins ) Slides available ...

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... 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 Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for satisfaction - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - ...