In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. What should I do first?" My first recommendation would be to decide where it is that you see yourself fitting into the e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a moderator ... recommend joining the main e-learning associations, i.e. eLearning Guild, wherever you are in the world, as well as the eLearning Network (workplace learning) or the Association for Learning Technology (education), if you're based in ...

When I used to work with organizations on defining an eLearning Strategy, I always worked from a very broad view of ... attacked eLearning 2.0 and Learning 2.0 the same way. But, I'm not sure that really works. Instead, I've found that it's ... and performance consultants have good analysis and delivery skills that are an important part of identifying and ...

Work Literacy and the eLearning Guild are partnering to provide you with a great (and free) opportunity to get up ... independent consultant who specializes in using social media tools to support learning, and career and professional ... ones for clients and colleagues. Harold has been a freelance consultant for the past five years, and blogs about ... /CTO of TechEmpower, a founder of Work Literacy, and a well-known consultant, speaker, writer, and trainer on e-Learning ... including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, among others. His blog eLearning Technology won the ...

Work Literacy and the eLearning Guild are partnering to provide you with a great (and free) opportunity to get up ... Michele Martin is an independent consultant who specializes in using social media tools to support learning, and career and ... recommend the right ones for clients and colleagues. Harold has been a freelance consultant for the past five years, and ... Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a founder of Work Literacy, and a well-known consultant, speaker, writer, and trainer on ... companies including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, among others. His blog eLearning ...

I know after going to the eLearning Guild Annual Gathering last year and chatting with folks I met that there are so many of us that are little departments of only one or if you are lucky two people with in them. I find that I am ... manager, a consultant (working on culture implementation), and then there is myself. I'm the only one working on the LMS, elearning, development, implementation, training, demos, etc. I will have some SME's eventually, but it's going to take a ... time that I would much rather be spending on our corporate elearning development. It's very difficult to express ...

I know after going to the eLearning Guild Annual Gathering last year and chatting with folks I met that there are so many of us that are little departments of only one or if you are lucky two people with in them. I find that I am ... manager, a consultant (working on culture implementation), and then there is myself. I'm the only one working on the LMS, elearning, development, implementation, training, demos, etc. I will have some SME's eventually, but it's going to take a ... time that I would much rather be spending on our corporate elearning development. It's very difficult to express ...

There have been 4 updated Top 10 Tools lists this week from: John Shaffer - John is an educational technologist based in Austin, Texas, USA Clark Quinn - Clark is the Executive Director of Quinnovation, an eLearning consultancy in the US. Bruce Richards - Bruce is the Research and Instructional Design Coordinator at the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. David Sugden - David works across the UK as an independent e-Learning ...

... became an e-leaming evangelist, writing white papers and making presentations about elearning. He became CEO of the eLearning Forum and advised Smartforce, Cisco, and other e-learning pioneers. A blogger long before it was popular, Cross ... consultant Lance Dublin became frustrated with customers who had the mechanics of e-leaming but had no clue how to implement ...

Wilfred Rubens (updated list) - Wilfred works as a consultant in the field of adult and vocational education ... and now has time to spend on the aspects of eLearning/eTeaching that she ...

More Top 10 Tools lists this week: Updated lists from Clive Shepherd (the well-known learning consultant from the UK) Anol Bhattacharya (the COO of GetIT | Comms, Singapore) Manish Mohan (the head of the Talent Development Campus initiative at NIIT, New Delhi, India, Britt Watwood (the online learning ... (a teacher in the UK) Karl Goddard (who provides ICT/VLE support in the UK) Ignatia/Inge de Waard (the eLearning coordinator at the Institute of TropicalMedicine in Antwerp) a Learning Consultant in Switzerland and a Learning ...

CALLS IT A COURSE!!!!)We put up with it - but IT NEVER WORKED!eLearning (as many are designed) - the coma without the ... helping instructors do this.- Second life has own scripting language- Most of this is one-time development. A consultant ...

Ask a professor- Virtual library- Consulting- Oh yeah, and world class training courses - web and classroomRearranged ... - Focus on growth and expansion.Now - 73% students touched by elearning product. Much on Own InitiationContinuous ...

Workshop D - Collaboration in a Virtual WorldRena M. Palloff, Ph.D., LCSW, Managing Partner, Crossroads Consulting GroupKeith Pratt, Associate Dean of Distance Learning and Instructional Technology, Northwest Arkansas Community CollegePreliminaries - itâ¬"s a full house! Wasnâ¬"t expecting that for pre-conference workshops. Curious to see how this one ... work - Appalachian State built own program.Docs have some concerns about how to use it in eLearning. Big problem ... exist, but may not talk to each other.(Thought about the Great ILS Challenge that Mark Oehlert led back at the eLearning ...

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.This venture comes partly from my experiences doing presentations, workshops, blogging around eLearning 2.0. When discussing new(ish) tools like blogs and social bookmarking, and discussing things like advanced search techniques, there's a gap in knowledge work skills. In fact, we all have blind spots.

... share the same linguistic heritage, as do commerce, competition, consult, contend, and correct. So what’s the ... eLearning for five years now. For me, it’s time to move on. That particularly squeaky wheel has been oiled enough. We ... there’s a real live teacher running the show. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning, I wrote: Learning ... charges, more closely resembling a haggis than a sophisticated network processor. eLearning came along at the right time ... with constipate = press together construct = pile up together consult = gather together, seize together consume = take ...