As a reader of this blog you are a witness if not an active participant in the dramatic changes that we have seen over the last few years as a result of web 2.0 technologies. Increasingly everyone is a teacher as well as a learner; nobody knows everything and everyone knows something. As George Siemens pointed out in Knowing Knowledge:"Mass media and ... and ecologies, do not permit rapid adaptation to trends outside of established structure. Structure is created by a select ... the design of a series of face-to-face conference events for the eLearning Network (eLN). In the past, a typical eLN ...

Trends that (will) lead to the success of VW's include:Putting people at the center of the networkIncreasing computing ... are actively looking to overcome and partner with solution providers. Also need to watch for open source ...

... design activities. The design activities ranged from synchronous activities to self-paced exploratory activities. The design activities included:Classroom EmulationRole PlayScavenger HuntsGuided ToursOperational ...

Elearning: Is it time to party? - training zone Although the general trend in usage in elearning is up, the composition of what makes up the figures is changing - less protracted periods of self-study; elearning is more real time, more ... , activities, and tasks. It mingles collaboration with reflection. Best Methods for Product-Based Training - ...

I've been reading a few posts on 2008 predictions. Stephen Downes wrote a post that critiqued and graded several of the 2007 predictions. It was an interesting read, but I found myself agreeing with some of the concerns Karl Kapp raised about the whole grading activity...especially the portion of grading your own prediction. Stephen gave himself an A-; however, his "prediction" on the trend of video continuing in popularity is very much of the "more of the same" prediction that he criticizes other people for. Also, since the personal learning environment didn't happen (which he said it ...

... more about trends in eLearning and eLearning Software.Prediction #1 => eLearning 2.0 - Increasing PressureIt's safe to predict that you'll be hearing more and more about eLearning 2.0 during 2008. While large scale adoption will be slow ... us to understand eLearning 2.0 for ourselves in order to apply it within our organizations (eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift). This will increase adoption of Web 2.0 tools by learning professionals (More eLearning Bloggers). It ... put together wasn't quite right - still a lecture - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the ...

... representatives from Forterra, Active Worlds, and National Guard. The second panel discussed other virtual worlds such as OLIVE, Active Worlds, and EM Nexus.Overall, the push to virtual worlds was real, but it was a controlled push because folks ...

... activity):It's mostly some pretty simple activities. But because of critical mass, a general ethos of open conversations ... workforce were active users of Facebook. And as the old adage goes:Q: "Willie, why do you rob banks?"A: "Cause that's where ... certain kinds of activity (think communication, decision making)Facebook as a Learning PlatformFor the upcoming Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations we wanted to have a way for participants to get to know other ... would expect that this is a place where we will see eLearning Startups - New Wave Coming.

Systems, titled "The Future of Learning Content." It promised that I would "learn about the important trends that are ... eLearning today is CONTEXT.During the dot.com frenzy of a few years ago, when there were mergers of content providers and ... developing eLearning programs for companies, associations and educational institutions. There is this obsession with filling the eLearning "pipe" with static content. Hence , there is so much eLearning today that amounts to little more than ... move beyond this obsession with content in eLearning. It is time to focus on context. In other words, we must move ...

E-Learning Trends" session by Rich Arnold from Unitech (pretty cool website too if you get a chance to check it out). I always enjoy attending the e-learning trends sessions just to see if everyone is "trending" in the same direction. Rich was a great speaker and a lot of his trends were right on target. He also noted that, in a sense, there are no e-learning trends. In fact, e-learning is a mechanism; not a panacea. E-learning crosses performance improvement, education, and training. If you are curious, his top ten trends (in no specific order, except for #1) are:1. Technology used ...

It seems like with the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies, there has been a resurgence of the Media/Method debate. Just a quick recap of the debate to catch-up those unfamiliar with the debate...In the 1980's and 1990's, Richard Clark and Robert Kozma wrote a series of papers debating whether or not media influences learning. Clark posited that media does not influence learning under any conditions, and Kozma was claiming that media does influence learning as an active process (although some contest that Kozma was actually arguing a different hypothesis).I've come across three items in ...

... activity that is not conducive to deep learning, self reflection and practice.I have seen many great eLearning initiatives come ... Elliott Masie is constantly polling readers of his Learning Trends online newsletter on interesting questions related ... eLearning into their daily tasks at their workstations without having to do it at home, or before or after the workday, or in some quiet designated eLearning space in the workplace? Masie got some interesting responses, with opinion divided, and ... eLearning fit into this mix?We tend to learn best in small chunks anyway, and can fit this into our working day while at ...

At the recent ASTD conference in Atlanta, I attended Tony Karrer's presentation on "eLearning 2.0". He discussed several technologies I had heard about, but have not had time (due to dissertation writing) to interact with. More importantly, he challenged everyone in the audience to become an active blogger...not necessarily for the benefit of others, but for their own continual learning and development. I greatly appreciated Tony's presentation and this blog is evidence that I have accepted Tony's challenge.In a way, doctoral programs forces one to continually read and stay on top of ...

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... look at? CLO Magazine or a blog?Personally, I've come to find that my Scanning/Reading activities are equivalent across ... doing more and more of my Scanning Online so that I can take advantage of Personal Learning Strategies.Keywords: eLearning Trends ...

... a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies on different eLearning projects and regularly network with folks at these companies who are active with defining technical direction for eLearning. So, when I'm talking about trends, that's where I'm ... Dave Boggs recent post No eLearning Tectonic Plate Shift Here had some interesting comments about my article Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids. He seems to see the same thing, but claims that it has always ... hands on developer of eLearning solutions than "an academic." I helped build two companies in the multimedia ...

... eLearning Authoring / DevelopementAuthoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsKeywords: eLearning Trends, eLearning ... One of the more interesting back-stories in Blended Learning / eLearning 2.0 is the classic question of point-solutions ... activities, particularly collaborative activities. LAMS provides rich functionality for designing a "flowââ¬ý of learning activities, especially where these activities rely on collaboration between students to drive the learning process. LAMS is a comprehensive system for the design and implementation of learning activity sequences - it includes an ...