... and follow their work Attend webinars Attend conferences Subscribe to blogs & start your own Read - trade journals ... management, etc.) Attend conferences (online and face-to-face) Learn to use authoring and other software and platforms; HTML & ... tech training. Felt like crying frequently due to some steep learning curves. learned how to train online by using an online learning platform (WebEx) by screwing up multiple times and attending a lot of other peoples training (started a ... I thinking? (Did I mention I had zero time)’ left training job and joined Brandon Hall Research full-time. A ...

... training that's appropriate for your role. The sources for this will vary enormously from country to country. If you prefer a more informal, self-directed approach, start reading books, blogs and magazines and attending conferences.

... meant to work that way.DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, ...

... workshops around the Situation-Based Learning Design notion. My clients see me present the concept at a conference and ... changing the way they do learning design. Finally, more and more learning professionals understand that for training (even their own training) to be effective, it has to be designed more like a change initiative than a course.  ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art serves as my office when I’m in the City, and I used it for contemplation and sustenance between sessions of the World Online Marketing Conference today. Online commerce has lessons for learning professionals putting together learning platforms. For example, the people today were really hot about live help as a sales tool. Text chat comes in many varieties. It’s a no-brainer if you’re selling from your website ... , I’ve advocated treating learners as if they were customers. If an online marketing champ were running training ...

I will be facilitating one of the Breakfast Byte sessions at the upcoming DevLearn 2008 conference. The session will be called, "Iâ¬"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, suggestions, etc. Iâ¬"ll do my best to help people get on the right track. I figured I would break my information into these groups ... conference, and I’ll be happy to chat if anybody wants more info. So, what advice would you give to people ...

Raph Koster, at the last Game Developers Conference (1, 2), shocked a few people when after showing pictures of Club Penguin and Second Life - he juxtaposed those with images of Darfur and Haiti. His point was to ask why game developers are doing what they do - and if they were perhaps squandering the potential of this powerful medium in which they were ... two pieces just have me wondering - is the learning/training industry asking itself this question? Is theer any expectation that it should do so? If we do ask the question and the answer is something other than compliance training and ...

Raph Koster, at the last Game Developers Conference (1, 2), shocked a few people when after showing pictures of Club Penguin and Second Life - he juxtaposed those with images of Darfur and Haiti. His point was to ask why game developers are doing what they do - and if they were perhaps squandering the potential of this powerful medium in which they were ... two pieces just have me wondering - is the learning/training industry asking itself this question? Is theer any expectation that it should do so? If we do ask the question and the answer is something other than compliance training and ...

I certainly haven't got all the Second Life lingo yet, but I'll try to pose my question here anyway. I was looking at a virtual conference in Second Life coming up that had some health care topics involved. Thinking about this I thought neat, I could register and give it a try to see what was covered and how they even do a conference in SL.I then wondered though, if I wanted to create/send coworkers into SL for a virtual experience how would that be done. I realize it would take some time to get land and create my area (Sim? is that right?), but then what. Would you just tell your ...

I certainly haven't got all the Second Life lingo yet, but I'll try to pose my question here anyway. I was looking at a virtual conference in Second Life coming up that had some health care topics involved. Thinking about this I thought neat, I could register and give it a try to see what was covered and how they even do a conference in SL.I then wondered though, if I wanted to create/send coworkers into SL for a virtual experience how would that be done. I realize it would take some time to get land and create my area (Sim? is that right?), but then what. Would you just tell your ...

... done so.  I've recently presented at a number of conferences and networking events, and it is clear that these lists ... Book Club. Every month I'll select 5 new, upcoming and/or unknown tools that have potential for education, training ...

... a couple of years ago, I attended a User Experience conference put on by the fine folks at Adaptive Path. As a card ... people at this conference talked about doing ethnographic research. I thought, wow - I didn't know so many anthropologists ... longitudinal aspect to ethnography that accompanies all the other training on curtailing bias and so forth. The idea is ...

... a couple of years ago, I attended a User Experience conference put on by the fine folks at Adaptive Path. As a card ... people at this conference talked about doing ethnographic research. I thought, wow - I didn't know so many anthropologists ... longitudinal aspect to ethnography that accompanies all the other training on curtailing bias and so forth. The idea is ...

... looking at the trends - Games down! So are simulations and virtual labs. Any kind of training that requires ... . I would have been wrong.Corporate Training MethodsBut what about in corporate training? What are the trends for methods ... (non-Government, non-Education) training methods:Surprisingly little difference between Corporate and Overall in terms of the training method trends. A few notes:Virtual Labs - which certainly are used a lot in distance IT training, show no ... to make of that?Training Methods in GovernmentHow about with Government?Some notes on Government training method ...

... looking at the trends - Games down! So are simulations and virtual labs. Any kind of training that requires ... . I would have been wrong.Corporate Training MethodsBut what about in corporate training? What are the trends for methods ... (non-Government, non-Education) training methods:Surprisingly little difference between Corporate and Overall in terms of the training method trends. A few notes:Virtual Labs - which certainly are used a lot in distance IT training, show no ... to make of that?Training Methods in GovernmentHow about with Government?Some notes on Government training method ...

Today is the day. One of the most anticipated games is on store shelves...SPORE!Learn more about we might use SPORE in training and education at sporelearning.ning.com.DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, ...

KathySierra_LearnSpanish_viaTWITTER Originally uploaded by Brent SchlenkerAnd so can you. Follow @cadadiaIf you are still trying to understand what TWITTER is all about and why we should care about in training/education, then here it is.I'm randomly following my twitter stream, minding my own business, and all of sudden I see the string of tweets by @KathySierra that you now see posted in the image. It took all of about 20mins for Kathy to have a customized daily Spanish ... conventions.DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - S