Day 1 of DevLearn 2008 kicked off today with a great keynote from Tim O’Reilly ( @TimOReilly ), where he walked us through the Web 2.0 movement and how it has impacted learning and training. Here are some of the notes I took during his keynote: We should always try to follow the “alpha-geeks.” These are the people who are ... . Case studies of ACE Hardware, Intel, Cisco, and more. All examples showed an overall community using social media, rather than the occasional blog or wiki. The idea of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) is antiquated; we are all SMEs ...

... comfortable with technology, they don't need "training." Just do. - Watch, then extract. - Examples + Wi-fi. WIreless ... more legitimate) - Help people learn from the people on the edge - Examples - Linux and Pearl (1991), First book on ... what it means - Pattern recognition!!!! Example - Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia.....What is in common - Internet ... use them. User contribution system (YouTube, Digg, etc) - Corporate example - Ideastorm (IBM) Customers making suggestions. - Lots of us equate Web 2.0 with wiki, blogs, twitter, et.al. Social media is great, but not the heart of ...

I've read a bit from ( here , here , and here ) about Jet Blue's use of web 2.0 / social media tools to communicate between their staff of learning professionals. This is another great example of eLearning 2.0 . Jet Blue University (their internal corporate university that I recently heard being discussed on Knowledge @ Wharton) is using Awareness Networks ' platform to work collaboratively on projects between employees in disparate locations and programs and to share best practices on how to train JetBlue crew members. The Awareness platform includes tools such as blogs, wikis ...

... relate to. Two examples appeared today. The first is from one of the major corporate LMS providers, Saba . According to ... practice, wikis, discussion boards and social connection capabilities will enable people to conduct informal knowledge ... structured manner, whether that's for training, customer information or performance support. The content may be ...

... or is it Learning 2.0). This presentation is where the Examples of eLearning 2.0 - which showed clearly these things ... Isn't your Mama's Training: Implementing Learning 2.0 at eBay by Eric Hunter & Rich Reitter of eBay. A lot of what ... make sense of them. For example, they used the following Learning Map to describe a learning experience: I'm sure ... the way you are participating in lots of online activities that are kept in wiki pages, blog posts, podcasts, web pages ... multiple groups of learners. A smart example of using eLearning 2.0 alongside formal learning.

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... but one example of technologys exponential growth. In fact, the phenomenon of computer speed doubling has been ... become increasingly strategic to the enterprise. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Training budgets are shrinking year over year. So what gives? The irony is that the training function itself is acting like an old dog ... adaptive and innovative. In many ways, the training function has fallen into the routinization trap by applying radically new ... the efficiency with which we train poorly. The current teacher-centric, classroom-based model for learning is ...