On the plane this afternoon I listened to a podcast from the Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar . The guest presenter was Tom Kelley, general manager at the world-renowned design firm, IDEO. His talk focused not upon how to increased innovation in the organization, but why it is 100% necessary to innovate as an individual. In short, you must consider yourself a personal innovation project. Organizations don't come up with innovations, people do ... to learn that over 60% of the attendees who watched my Social Search in the Corporate Environment twittered about ...

... others trying to focus on different niches such as k12 Education ( Edmodo ), corporate and other environments ( Presently ...

Presentation: Deeper Instructional Design: Cognitive Science and How People Really Learn Presenter: Clark Quinn (yup...blogger...hiding in the corner...near the power....) Context Elements of Enhanced ID - Objective - Intro - Concept - Example - Practice - Summary Action! How do people really learn - use that to design system. - And what technology affords us. Doing more strategy. More people looking for 5 year roadmaps in his practice. Current wipeouts - Missed ... design environments conducive to learning. - We design learning experiences. Don't design CONTENT, design ...

Presentation: Best Practices for Implementing Immersive Simulations Presenter: Corti (Came in late - first person networking) - The 'big idea' (what is your hook) - Defining it - Project team - Vendor Selection - Design it + Paper mock-ups important, incl. storyboarding. Mistakes on paper cheap - Build it + Build to work, then build pretty + 20: 80 rule. For immersive learning, at least 80 percent of the project needs to be done before you can show the client ... %) + Competitions and high score chart (if fits corporate environment) + Identify internal advocates - Support it + Dummies ...

No Wendy - it is NOT ILT challenge, as you regularly freudian slip. Bad Wendy, Bad. And in front of Mark too.....) Presentation: The Great ILS Challenge Host: Mark Oehlert ILS Challenge - the whole idea is that ideas regarding what you can do with design can be stretched. We help people do their jobs better. Mark wants to stretch the design of what ... / story / environment. - Where can you get people access to a lot of money that we can develop shady things around ... out things in a safe environment. Ultimately, in the end, did they learn what they needed to learn? What are you ...