The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World. The list of authors represents a blogging who's who, with contributions from Jane Hart, Tony Karrer, Michele Martin, Mark Oehlert, Sanjay Parker, Brent Schlenker, and Will Thalheimer. As usual with Guild reports, there's a good overall response, in this ... can play an important role in supporting formal learning in terms of active support and follow-through. Learning 2.0 ... . Some third-party research is quoted in the report: Some 77% of Inc 500 organisations have adopted some form ...

These are my liveblogged notes from the eLearning Guild’s webinar on their e-Learning 2.0 research report. The report is available to any paid members of the guild, or to free (Associate) members who have taken the report. Webinar recording will be available to members in the same place as the report. Hosts: Steve Wexler Jane Hart Tony Karrer Michele Martin Mark Oehlert Sanjay Parker Brent Schlenker My comments in italics. My thoughts may be a little more random than ... category. Different levels of activity–younger workers more likely to be engaged with the tools, not just reading them.

2.0 Research.  The 360° Report will be published later this week on September 25; and Steve Wexler, the Director of Research at E-Learning Guild has done an amazing job in analysing all the data from the E-Learning Guild Members survey and bringing out all the salient points.   Over the last few weeks, supporting articles for this research by other members of the research team, Mark Oehlert, Michele Martin, Brent Schlenker and Will Thalheimer, have been published in the ... practice by using Guild Research and interviews with practitioners.The article is FREE to access for Guild Associate ...

CALLS IT A COURSE!!!!)We put up with it - but IT NEVER WORKED!eLearning (as many are designed) - the coma without the ... doing research. Most still trying to figure it out.- Have seen emergency responder training in 2nd life.Second Life and ... environment. The other to develop the learning activities!- There is still not a good handbook.- Still nascent.Level ...

MertenMason - Teaching, research and service.Seemed a bit passiveSo..."Learning business", research and partnership. Community-drivers and community-drivenMore research across organizational boundaries.Very subtle word changes but big meaning ... - Focus on growth and expansion.Now - 73% students touched by elearning product. Much on Own InitiationContinuous Learning ... up with this briefing, have to actively engage. Don't know where the presenter is. Gotta keep up. This is a ...

... work - Appalachian State built own program.Docs have some concerns about how to use it in eLearning. Big problem ... activities. Make them feel more connected, therefore reduce attrition. Cycle of community and collaboration. By having ... on facilitative role.Promote reflection and transformative learning experiences. The activities need to lead to ... as a collaborative activity. Wikis are great but you have to really work on setting the guidelines before students get ... - Research assignments - seek out and present additional resources- Group work on case studies- Simulations- Blogs- ...

... both about a new site called “the eLearning Society.” One was on my post about professional organizations for ... eLearning Society posted under his own name, he linked to his personal website and used an email address that isn’t ... see that the eLearning Society asks vendors to pay to be listed in their directory. The page asking for advertisers claims that “thousands of eLearning professionals” are using their site, but it looks to me like it’s just one guy who’s active. There’s only one profile listed in the “community.” There are no jobs ...

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 ... Downes. Research: the differences between media and technology - Rob Wright Technology is more than just the media ... , activities, and tasks. It mingles collaboration with reflection. Best Methods for Product-Based Training - ...

JAWS: Navigating Web Pages tags: accessibility, webdesign Navigation keyboard commands for the JAWS screen reader Opened Practices tags: community, education, highered, learning, opensource Resources and descriptions for teaching practices using open source tools eLearn: Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional tags: e-learning, lifelonglearning, web2.0 List from Stephen Downes of quick activities. Although the title says ... professional development Harold Jarche û Costs of open source and proprietary LCMS/LMS tags: lms, opensource, research ...

... 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 ... Reading & Research More Effective.Prediction #2 => Virtual Classroom Tools - Meeting Tool + Second Life ...

Recently, I’ve been sharing some of my research into the pioneering educational technology work of Alan Kay, who was able to effectively translate his understanding of cognitive psychology and learning theory into new ideas for making computers easy to learn - and learn on. His insights into educational technology continue to be highly relevant today ... developing learning experiences and activities. Source: Alan Kay: “Doing with Images makes Symbols,” (1987 ... , cai, education, technology, educational, edtech, edutech, mlearning, m-learning, e-learning, elearning ...

... the best list of tools.So, the eLearningGuild research again to the rescue... Here's guild member satisfaction ratings ... activities and games using four simple templates. StudyMate provides an authoring environment that requires no experience ... , rich-text, and other formats. This makes it possible to create interesting, interactive activities from existing ... question/answer randomization. The Flash activities that can be created with StudyMate include: Fact Cards, Fact Cards ... possible to generate three activities that can be used with iPods, PSP players and other portable devices.OnDemand ...

Management - Mohamed Amine Chatti's ongoing research on Technology Enhanced Learning Learning and KM solutions have to ... between them and that the two fields are increasingly similar in terms of input, outcome, processes, activities ...

... got to do with eLearning you ask?I think eLearning professionals can learn from the approach used in the animation industry. As I have written many times in the past, I think the eLearning industry places far too much confidence in technology ... enough on the human ingenuity and creativity required to make these tools sing.As part of her research, our daughter checked ... those who design and develop eLearning. Here are some snippets from the Pixar site, followed by my take on how these principles apply to an eLearning context.Pixar: "Pixar places the technology of computer graphics firmly at the service ...

Your Learning Theory Explored - Elliott Masie Stanton Wortham, a leading researcher from the Wharton/University of Penn program on Learning Leadership explores learning theories and our occasional contradictions. Five Common Mistakes in Innovation - Business Week If you work for Steve Jobs, innovation seems like second nature. If you don't, the only ... , determine which activities spurred these moments of greatness, and then figure out how to do more of that. How Long Should an E-learning Course Be? - eLearn Magazine What is a good length for a module? Through countless hours ...

The Wall Street Journal Statistically speaking, science suffers from an excess of significance. Overeager researchers ... brain activity - ars technnica Spontaneous brain activity is more than simply a physiological artifact; it helps ... brain may have some intrinsic activity that's somewhat independent of sensory input. FIVE QUESTIONS. . . For Karl M. Kapp - eLearn Magazine Karl M. Kapp, of Bloomsburg University, is well-known for his applied work in the area ...

A frequent question I get at the end of any presentation on eLearning 2.0 is how much time I spend on blog reading and ... from the grad student (I'm slowly working through these.)Some quick thoughts -Scanning Activity ReplacedI likely spend an ... as part of scanning has been a replacement of other activities that I used to do - reading magazines and books. Originally, I didn't plan to replace these activities as I considered the information from blogs to be quite different ... natural part of my knowledge work. When I'm doing some research on a topic as part of a project, as I think through ...

... can be found at: http://www.articulate.com/blog/the-19-best-elearning-blogs/ http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/02/top-ten-elearning-blogs.html Then you will want to sign up on a blogging system such as Blogger, and begin to ... tell you that it has replaced other learning activities and that they seamlessly work it into their day. As they research a new topic, they find they can write a blog post that will help them capture their thoughts. Typical ...

... implement it in our work environments.I see incorporating any new technology, whether it be eLearning technologies such ... researching new stuff. When wooing IT friends, ask about techie toys that are not related to work.5) Red Bull is quite ... Electronic Medical Record is easily broken by conflicting Active X controls from other programs. This makes the ...

... us:The self-initiated learner can now often learn more in an hour's online research than in an hour listening to the most profound and articulate expert. And while some don't have the skill or interest in doing such research, and are ... day session aimed at a particular audience segment, e.g., managers of corporate eLearning, facilitated by me and ... , how do you structure your eLearning production, centralized vs. distributed. You could probably do 25 minute exchanges in ... talking about the implications of eLearning 2.0 was great.Part of this is being able to connect with people who you ...

... an aha moment for me. I went back to my post: Activity in Last Six Months to see what Page Views, Time on the Page ... Blog Home Page 10,584 0:02:40 NA 100 1. What is eLearning 2.0? 3,256 0 ... To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog 1,799 0:01:34 16 22 4. Rapid eLearning Tools 1,308 ... for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective 1,023 0:02:38 4 65 7. Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development 719 ...