Well, just over six months in, and I'm still here, albeit with a backlog of ideas/thoughts that really should be up here by now. So it's nice to find that this blog was selected as a Blog of the Week by the Learning Technologies team. A useful little motivator to step things up a little.

I spent last week in London at Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference. The general mood amongst the vendors and attendees I felt demonstrated a confidence in the future at odds with the wider economic gloom that the media and city types would have us believe. While the longer term impact of globalisation and an overstretched financial sector will clearly affect us all, I wonder if ...

On May 13 and 14 of next week I have the distinct honor of MC’ing what I believe is the first real enterprise grade summit on the application of advanced learning technologies to learning. The good news is that the ... line of up of speakers and panelists and the focus and emphasis is on what has been DONE and what has been learned from those who have blazed the Trail. The Research Triangle Park is a hotbed for 3D technologies and participants will get to see first hand how technologies are being applied for business benefit. Hope to see y’all there. Check out ...

The Learning Technologies Conference in Portland, Oregon is happening as I type.  Christine Martell , Michele Martin and I are hosting.  There are a few things I wanted to point out as we are going through this: Learning and working are not exclusive.  They can happen at the same time.  We have such a tendency to separate them. Social Learning ... using Web 2.0 tools for learning.  They fit very nicely together, but are not synonyms. Training = Delivery.  Social Learning = Creating the learning with others.  Training = 1:many.  Social Learning = many:many or many:1 where the one is ...

Facebook, SecondLife, learner-driven content (e.g., wiki, texting) type learning simply because the younger generation learns that way.” That last part - basically the idea that we need to use “2.0″ tools and technologies because young people learn that way is something I hope no one buys into. People across generations expect rich, collaborative learning which may or may not be enabled by Web 2.0 tools.  Don’t you? I don’t want to listen to this & then respond. Train, learn. It’s content-centric. I want learning that is social. Don’t you? I ...

Today's top story is from Chief Learning Officer, The Future of Learning Technology . We have yet to comprehend the impact of just-in-time access to information, applications, tools, learning and expertise within the work context as a powerful and productive alternative to just-in-case instruction.

My personal goal at Brandon Hall Research is to provide information people need to make good choices. Information like what learning technologies and tools to buy, how to implement them, best practices, how to develop a strategy, and ... , experiments, etc.) My newest product is about social learning technologies and LMSs . Over the years I’ve followed LMSs as they morphed from administrative tools - learners and learning events are tracked, e-learning is served up, and ... many systems, toward more integration of social learning technologies. Many do so much more than “manage learning ...

Learning Technology Satisfaction & Trends A new report out from IMS called Learning Technology Satisfaction & Trends presents data from a survey of US higher education institutions. According to ... currently reading “Learning Technology Satisfaction & Trends,” an entry on iterating toward openness ... department leaders. 50% were information technology or instructional support staff. 11% were faculty.” Several ... specific technologies are being perceived, by those ithat incorporate them, as adding value to the educational ...

An ecosystem is an ecological community that, together with its environment, functions as a unit. Extending the definition to the e-learning environment, we can define an e-learning ecosystem as the learning community, together with the enterprise, united by a learning management system (LMS). If e-learning is truly to provide greater access to education and support educational programs that reflect broader strategic business goals, many believe that the e-learning industry must take the time now to learn key lessons from its early adopters.

Salmon (Profesor of Elearning & Learning Technologies) and Matthew Wheeler (Media zookeeper ... E-Zoo - Gilly Salmon (Profesor of Elearning & Learning Technologies) and Matthew Wheeler (Media ... technologies and pedagogies. a key dissemination facility for Leicesterâ??s e-learning research programmes. an ... & Existing Technologies and New & Existing Learning Processes. one process emerging from the adoption of ... pedagogy and technology are complex. If students are offered regular teaching and learning processes (books, lectures, ...

Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Slide 2: Schools & universities: ecologies for connections Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Slide 3: A potential approach? Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Slide 4: Certificate in Online and Blended Learning Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Slide 5: Participants Learning Technologies Centre www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies Slide 6: Structured and self-directed Learning ...

This week will be the Learning Technologies 2008 show in London. I'll be there for both days (30/31 January), delivering a seminar on "Less Learning More Often" which covers some of the ground described in my earlier article on the theme. I've also written the Last Word for the Learning Technologies magazine which as a sneak preview I've reproduced below. I'd be interested in your responses ...

There are a number of groups and societies available for those people who are interested in eLearning. Among these are: ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) eLearning Guild ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement) SALT ( Society for Applied Learning Technology ) STC (Society for Technical Communication) Please click the desired link above for more information.

Here's an article I wrote a few weeks back for Learning Technologies magazine which has just been published. It's a fairly long post but if you make it to the end I would welcome your comments. ============== When unpredictable change becomes the only constant, learning on your own terms is an essential survival skill in these turbulent times, says Lars Hyland. The unthinkable is happening.

I wrote this article back in November for Learning Technologies magazine. I'm placing it here as a matter of record and to note that social networking tools are clearly important to accelerating the (effective) learning process. --------------------------------- We are social animals by nature, so any technology that allows us to connect more efficiently and effectively with others will ...

There is a difference between supporters of learning and supporters of e-learning. Every new formal learning technology/approach is judged against a standard that older formal learning technology/approach would fail. It is easier to criticize more/precise content than less/vague content. There is no e-learning that is so cheap that people will not complain about the price; there is no e-learning so brief that people will not complain about the time it takes to consume it. If a formal learning program has six new features and one traditional feature, people will evaluate the program ...

I ran across a great post over on the Learning Reflections blog this week that presents several tips for ensuring good working relationships with vendors. The post is The 7 Top Tips for Implementing Learning Technology. The Vendors View! When working with learning technology vendors (ex. LMS providers, service providers, etc.), I often find myself thinking, "Our organization is unique, and we need things implemented our way ." I tend to forget that vendors usually work with many, many organizations and they probably have a better idea of how to run the implementation than ...

I’ve been enjoying the delightful Australian weather and hospitality for the past week. Today, I presented at Learning Technologies 2008 . My slides - Analyzing the Obvious: Technological and Social Connections have been posted. Richard Feynman , the legendary physicist and educator, used to state a concept most students first encounter in physics: everything is made of atoms. The key to understanding learning is similar: connections, and the patterns they create, are the foundation.

Whoops, yesterday I posted a link to my recent presentation on the wrong blog. You can find the post with my thoughts around a direct success story from the presentation on LCB at: The Learning Circuits Blog: DevLearn Handouts and A Success Story: Elearning and Instructional Design Musings and you can find my presentation at: What's Now and What's Next in e-Learning: Technologies and Practices edited 10/19 to remove the link to other handouts.

... learning technology and software, I find myself traveling to more conferences and face-to-face venues this year than I ... learning technologies. But due to poor weather conditions, here I sit in the airport. A few moments ago, I took a digital ... to the Advanced Learning Technologies Summit in Cary, NC. My talk is titled Robotics, Haptics, Gizmos, Gadgets and ... and exciting with the technology so, if you have any really great ideas to push the audience response technology to ...

It has been quite some time since I last blogged. There has been a lot of change in the learning technology sector this year and I have recently felt the need to jump back into some challenging discussions. For those who care, I spent most of 2006 implementing video based learning programs, learning analytics, learning content portals, and generally changing the face of learning at Aegis Mortgage. This year I will continue in that mode, however, I want to expand the scope of my projects and become active in the learning community at large. So let's get started again and we'll see ...

Great presentation last week to a group of enthusiastic trainers. Group Three Group Two. Group One. Today I am doing a presentation called "Innovations in Technology And What it Means to Learning and Training" Here are some resources related to the presentation; List of Recommended Books Definition of Mnemonic Here is a copy of the presentation. Learning Technology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Mentions in the presentation Jelly Vision YawnBuster Performance Develoment Group Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning ...

If you’ll be at DevLearn in San Jose in a few weeks, let’s meet up! I’m always anxious to meet other people involved with learning, technology, and performance improvement - and events like DevLearn provide a great venue for this. Get a hold of me any time at the conference if you want to chat. I will be floating around from session to session, and I will be pretty active on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/bjschone ). In fact, see my next post…        ...

... be seven country reports comparing local findings with global norms. Leadership Learning technologies timeline ... , Literacy in the Information Age, Learning Technologies, or Computer Assisted Instruction. Each entry has a link to a ... up to or following from the cited event. Via elearnspace . Tag: Learning Technology A Blog That Blogs Corporate ... The top 10 technology trends affecting education in 2005 - The Philadelphia Inquirer 10. Blackboard's takeover ... , organisational, and technological implications of `blogging' (and social computing in general) before chasing ...

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Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - c/net "What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st century skills we want them to develop to be successful today," Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the school's College of Education and Human Development, said in a release Friday. Water woes, trouble, and training - Dave's Whiteboard A one-page guide to performance problem analysis, just in case the cause of the problem is not restricted to a lack of skill or knowledge. The Myth ...

The sessions at DevLearn went really well. You can find handouts from DevLearn sessions and you can find my session handouts at: What's Now and What's Next in e-Learning: Technologies and Practices Not sure if you'll need any special permissions to get these. If you do, let me know and I'll post them somewhere else. Now, let me say that many presentations I give, I know that when Monday rolls around after the conference, there won't be any real action. But today, I've received several emails that indicate real action is being taken and even one person sent me a link to their ...

... or send me an email.  I truly love what I do and enjoy meeting and talking with others who enjoy Learning Technologies as much as I do. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

... eBay took to evaluate and select new tools like wikis, blogs, and other Social Learning technologies. Hear how they developed their successful Social Learning strategy, and review the results and lessons learned. https://admin.acrobat.com ... his team have put together a great example and will share it with us! Title: Implementing Social Learning at ...