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.

The eLearning Guild 2007 Annual Gathering . If you haven't heard, the Guild recently released an absolutely amazing ... , scenarios, and serious games Don't forget the long list of other reports including Future Directions in eLearning and many, many more. The Guild is a community of practice putting incredible resources behind the members it serves. If you haven't look into The Guild...you should. Maybe we can have a beer tasting at the Sam Adams brewery, since I wasn't able to make it to the highly blogged (via Clark , Tony , Jim )beer tasting at ASTDs recent event. I don't know ...

I just received a question that I'm sure often is on the minds of people in eLearning - which conference they should attend (eLearning Guild DevLearn or ASTD TechKnowledge). I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. Here's was the specific question (and all the information I have to go on) to help advise this person - I have been trying to decide whether to attend DevLearn 2008 or ASTD TechKnowledge in 2009. I have never attended either. I have been designing and developing elearning for about a year. Any suggestions? This person works in health care in ...

... presenting at ASTD TechKnowledge in Las Vegas as compared to the eLearningGuild's Annual Conference in Boston. Still, it does ... TechKnowledge Wiki wiki wiki ASTD TechKnowledge ASTD TechKnowledge If you are going please...

Are you going to the eLearningGuild Annual Gathering in Boston? If so, I've got a suggestion... At ASTD TK07 , I was invited by Jim Javenkoski (who created his blog during one of my hands on sessions) to a beer tasting event that he was doing on behalf of Unibroue . Jay Cross , Harold Jarche , Clark Quinn all were able to join me. The beer and conversation were fantastic. I'm hoping that there will be a chance to have a similar kind of fun thing happen in Boston. The speakers in Boston look to be fantastic. On my panel session around eLearning Technologies, I have Stephen ...

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 experiences at ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. Here are a few: First Thoughts After ASTD TechKnowledge Sessions. 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) ...

One of the bigger thinkers organization learning, knowledge management and the use of technology - Tony O'Driscoll - has finally bit the bullet and started a blog: Learning Matters! Tony will be on a panel around the what's coming next in eLearning at the eLearningGuild in Boston. Hint - several of us bloggers are still waiting for a vendor to invite us for beer (or wine) tasting in Boston - see Beer Tasting at ASTD TechKnowledge - Look Out eLearningGuild Annual Gathering in Boston.

Building upon a previous blog post , I’ve listed a bunch more great resources to help you find a job in the field of learning and technology (a.k.a. eLearning). Happy hunting! eLearning Pulse Job Board The eLearning Guild Job Board (Members only) ASTD Job Bank eLearningCareers.com (International positions) Jobster Indeed Jobs.com Monster CareerBuilder Dice Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT) International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Instructional Technology Jobs (Via Indiana University) Simply ...

As I'm thinking about going to the eLearningGuild Annual Gathering in Boston next month and ASTD in Atlanta in June, I went back to look at some notes I had created before around getting ready for conferences ... Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee And the net of it was that you really needed to be prepared with good questions, which I had talked about in: Better Questions for Learning Professionals Then, I realized that the LCB Big Question from February would be a good thing to look back at: Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be ...

I'm just returning from my trip to Boston (and NYC and Cape Cod - with my wife and kids). In Boston, I was at the eLearningGuild event and had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Harvard Business School (more on these sometime soon). One of the more fun things we did in Boston was going out for a beer tasting that was organized by Jim Javenkoski ... TechKnowledge in Las Vegas - Beer Tasting at ASTD TechKnowledge but this time we had as pretty amazing group of ... . Looking forward to doing something like this in Atlanta for the ASTD Conference.

I just saw that BJ had posted about DevLearn and I feel somewhat remiss that he beat me to it. In case you hadn't heard, The eLearning Guild is hosting DevLearn 2007 in San Jose, CA, November 5-8 2007. I'll be there (and doing a few presentations and some special sessions for managers with Lance Dublin). As always, I'll likely be getting together with folks who read this blog and other bloggers and other interesting folks to go have a few beers. It's become somewhat of a tradition for us at conferences ( Beer Tasting at ASTD TechKnowledge , Boston, Beer - Bloggers - ...

Great question posed by Mark Oehlert - I will say that it is interesting that in addition to the slides you can also rate each session and leave comments about each. Total transparency. As we look for ways to improve conferences , this is a point we should ponder on. How would you feel if the ratings for a session you presented say at ASTD or the eLearning Guild were instantly available for public consumption? I know how I feel about this but I'd like to hear from some people - instant, visible ratings...boon or bane? I personally would love to see this happen. I often find myself ...

... eLearningGuild, Masie, ASTD, VNU, Brandon Hall, etc., you will find very different approaches taken by the leaders of each. They ... Based on the post He Had a Bad Day , Mark Oehlert , Heidi Fisk and I have had an email conversation that raises an interesting broader questions around the role, voice and communication norms of people who are the leaders / organizers of groups like the eLearningGuild. Should they try to stay behind the scenes and put members out in front? Should they have a strong voice and opinion that champions approaches or direction for the members? Do they need to ...

... eLearning Guild Linked In Group - LinkedIn group for members of The eLearning Guild. Fair amount of discussion on design ... LinkedIn group/network for professionals working in the (E-)learning industry and informal learning industry. ASTD National - ASTD's LinkedIn group. Lots of members and discussion. Courseware Development - Smaller LinkedIn group started by Ted Kopp interested in courseware design and development. Some discussion. eLearn - Fairly large LinkedIn group for sharing ideas, concepts, and technology for eLearning. Discussion varies. Learning, Education ...

Next week is DevLearn , and as it’s run by the eLearning Guild, it’s always good.  I’ll be switching time between two pre-conference symposiums , one on games, and one on mobile.  Then I’ll be presenting on ... talking on mobile and deeper ID. I haven’t heard yet about the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering in Orlando ... as of now is ASTD’s International Conference and Exposition .  I’ll be running a one day pre-conference workshop on eLearning Strategy , and I’m really excited about getting into the details of how you tie together ...

... me having just returned from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas and examples. Very little participation. But in fairness to ASTD - it seems like it's hard to get participation when 70% of ... like the eLearningGuild is doing a better job at this recently. There were morning discussion groups last time that ...

... eLearningGuild) or Atlanta (ASTD). If you are, please drop me a note. ... electronic-only contact. In Las Vegas (at ASTD TechKnowledge), I met up with bloggers who I really only knew online.

... industry. I started off by joining the ASTD, and CLO groups and I think I'll look into the eLearning Guilds group next ... improve my career in instructional design and eLearning development. I am currently gainfully employed with a ...

... practices... definitely worth checking out. eLearning Guild Sort of Web 2.0-ish in the sense that much of the content is derived from member input to surveys the guild administers. Participation is key. Fill out a survey and you get ... preparing a presentation about learning environments. I was surprised not to have been able to find much on the ASTD web ... . (Personal note: Give feedback to ASTD national.) What I really wanted were some online references that were more ... above, here are three favorites from my personal repertoire: eLearn Magazine Published by the Association ...

I did my eLearning 2.0 presentation at ASTD 2007. There were over 200 people and it was standing room only ... Introduction eLearning 2.0 Applications I did something along these lines (two presentations) at ASTD ... discussion? Out of ASTD TK 2007 and the eLearningGuild, I know at least a few people have taken my presentation to heart ... ASTD...first session reviews...Ruth Clark and Tony Karrer... and this - eLearning 2.0 and - eLearning 2.0 Cool ... new people to training and eLearning and the rest had varying levels of experience. Most of the audience ...

... a discussion group) or the eLearningGuild or ASTD do with/about these loose connections that span in, across, through ... After posting yesterday eLearning Technology: Web 2.0 Tools, Networks and Community (Individuals vs. Collective) - where I discussed how my use of Web 2.0 tools were forming a network of individual relationships, today I ran across a post by Dave Pollard - Social Networking in Business: An Update where he lists out a series of tools that create links between people much as I was discussing. As I stated yesterday, what's interesting about these links is that there is ...

DevLearn is coming up. I just took a quick look on the eLearningGuild site and DevLearnis looking good again this year. My guess is that I'll be getting together with a few folks there to have a drink and discuss things like eLearning ... forward to seeing them. Clive on Learning Learnlets Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development e-Clippings (blogoehlert) Will at Work Learning SCORM Watch eLearning Weekly Michelle Lentz Mark Chrisman ... Tasting at ASTD TechKnowledge ). Including having Adobe and Learn.com sponsor events in the past. Maybe ...

... someone like ASTD will adopt Ning and give it a huge push. Or maybe the eLearningGuild. But it's hard to compete ...

... conferences I regularly attend - and no offense to the eLearningGuild, ASTD, etc. - because most conferences have these same ... some beer was great. Having a really great Southern dinner at ASTD and talking about the implications of eLearning 2.0 ... , managers of corporate eLearning, facilitated by me and someone else that will help them identify their key issues, big ... cracker-barrel sessions that look at particular issues, e.g., how do you structure your eLearning production, centralized ... sure that I know how to make this happen for more attendees, but Beer Tasting at ASTD TechKnowledge , Boston, ...

... eLearningGuild events, but is a bit more mainstream, corporate than ASTD conferences. Although people may debate this. Some ... , you would think in the age of eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 this would be down notable dropping topics: games ... / interactivity is dropping. Normally topics like "Adding Interactivity to your eLearning" are sure to pack the room.

Why isn't it happening elsewhere? Theoretically, ASTD's Learning Circuits or the eLearningGuild should do it ... below in Wikipedia. I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts ... really a place where you can find a Wiki that covers eLearning concepts. But the answer is much more interesting than that. You can certainly go to Wikipedia and find information about learning concepts including eLearning and eLearning ... . being too leading edge. The article on eLearning 2.0 which I originally created but that now I've been told that ...

During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 as part of an online event for the eLearningGuild, I mentioned a few common ways that I've seen eLearning 2.0 approaches used in corporate learning settings ... eLearning 2.0 approaches. In the past, I've only had a few people respond, but this time, there were so many responses ... sharing on wiki online reference for patient care using podcasts for our ASTD chapter to introduce upcoming speakers wikis, blogs, jing to capture best practices, conduct training and elearning resources virtual learning environment ...

... with a group dinner, this time with a different group that included Brent Schlenker from the eLearning Guild. Again ... I’m a little more rested today, and only slightly lagging from the time zone shift. I started off again with a Breakfast Byte, this time on Decision Support strategies present by Janet Emery. Wow, that was the right way to start my day. Janet is absolutely brilliant (she’s won multiple awards from ASTD and ISPI) and I’m surprised I ... ) how will that impact your eLearning? Next I attended a session on the future of SCORM. First of all, hats off ...

... eLearning Guild   ... ; ASTD?s e-zine about elearning. Some very good articles here. If you?re new, start with E ...   eLearn Magazine, published by ACM, an educational ... Intelligence Units international elearning readiness rankings, as determined by "Connectivity (the quality and extent of Internet ... looks at the adoption (or lack adoption) of elearning on campuses and mistaken assumptions. Helpful insights ...

I found that by going through and creating my lists ( eLearning Technology: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to ... having the right question is the whole battle - eLearning Technology: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee (at eLearningGuild's DevLearn) . On the other hand, sometimes I feel that a discussion group immediately derails ... raised that I remember: What's a learning professional? (ASTD - that's an ouch given that's how you define ...