Last night I attended an award ceremony for the UK National Training Awards and was delighted to see one of my blended learning designs for the child development charity Plan International recognised with a national award. The Plan Certificate in Management, a one-year programme for middle and senior managers around the world, was designed in conjunction with Learning and Development Manager, Karen Coleman and course tutor, Gary Ford. The solution had not only to be ... using Elluminate with funding help through the LINGOS programme for NGOs. Individual and collaborative ...

... tools in a collaborative nature, and not just as a content management system. As I said, this is case study ...

... authors define Learning 2.0 as 'the idea of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration enhanced by technologies driven by Web 2.0,' which seems reasonable. I've picked out a few highlights from my perspective: Learning 2.0 can play an important role in supporting formal learning in terms of active support and follow-through. Learning 2.0 ... The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World. The list of ... retaining talent. Seventy percent of respondents plan to apply more Learning 2.0 in the coming year. The biggest users ...

... of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration enhanced by technologies driving Web 2.0. Users/Learners are empowered to search, create, and collaborate in order to fulfill intrinsic needs to learn new information.” ... These are my liveblogged notes from the eLearning Guild’s webinar on their e-Learning 2.0 research report. The ... interacting with for a while; it’s a different facet of connection. 1160 people completed the e-learning 2.0 survey Concerns with emerging technologies: New things will make what we’re doing now obsolete: False Hard to learn ...

... exciting with it's application to learning. (Side note: If you had said, Google Spreadsheet, then the collaborative and real ... Saw a post by Matthew Franz - where he tells us - I don't get e-learning 2.0 - and it made me wonder if Franz is a training specialist - who's not looking at more than training as a model for learning. Here's what he said:I just don't get why folks are trying to lump in wikis, blogs, rss, etc. as "e-learning."RSS, Blog, Wikis, etc. are fundamental ... think of the absurdity of making a big deal of Excel as an "e-learning 1.0 tool."Is it because corporate trainers (I ...

... collaboration Socialtext Dashboard - Customizable home pages that let each person           decide where to focus their attention.         Socialtext 3.0 delivers connected collaboration ...

You tell them you can do something incredibly useful like troll it for professionals in your field that it might be valuable for you to follow. Jane Hart has posted the "100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to follow on Twitter." Now that looks like using a blog and not twitter but now since somehow (Jane probably just needed someone in the O's) I squeaked onto the list, I am watching my Twitter followers light up with new folks thus broadening my community of practice. So ... follow them via something like Twitter and learn from them along the way.

... collection of information but it really does pull out the collaboration aspect of wiki-dom doesn't it? Clipmarks: I'm ... are the same mistakes that we made with e-learning - we horribly neglected the new and different affordances of first ... to take their data and applications with them and do have much more satisfactory experiences than typical m-learning ...

... lack the discipline to put in the hard work to learn things the way you and I did when we were in school. Ye Gods, most of ... of our companies. Learning professionals know that the incoming generation is not going to put up with what has passed ... -it training, sheâ¬"ll work somewhere else. Corporations that donâ¬"t offer employees the freedom to learn with others ... showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. This is a group that learns from ... . The magic of Sunâ¬"s approach is that it accelerates informal learning. Performance is what matters, not how you learned ...

... small chunks encourages you to use that content in more imaginative ways, perhaps as catalysts for collaborative learning ... Norman Lamont is frustrated again. This time, in Re-use Revisted, he wonders whether the idea that learning objects can ... there ever finds they can re-use their learning objects. Good question. The idea behind the concept of learning objects ... applications, considerably reducing wasted effort. Somebody obviously saw parallels in the world of world of learning ... student groups. Learning objects could be aggregated to form complete courses of study, whether intelligently, by learning ...

... time. When you visit the HCI/eLF blog, be sure to check out Laleh Shahidi’s Collaborative Learning Blog, too. ... Check out the new blog on Learning Architecture from the eLearning Forum (which has become a part of the Human Capital Institute.) The new site has a link back to the old eLearning Forum site, and the archives are a walk down memory lane. In late 1999, a bunch of us — Eilif Trondsen, Marcia Conner, Mark Cavender, James Levine, Josh Bersin, John Bueller, and others — spent the better part of two days trying to agree on a common definition of eLearning. Back ...

Join us for the Social Learning SIG’s October Webinar Title: Informal Learning in the 21st Century Description ... know that an interactive web will have profound implications for us as learning professionals - but what does it all really mean? In this session you’ll get a guided tour of how new rich-media and collaboration technologies are changing the face of the web, and how learning organizations are leveraging these technologies to better serve their customers. Host: Cascadia Chapter of ASTD Presenter: Bill Bruck of Q2 Learning When: Friday 17 October 2008, 11:00 AM - ...