Will Thalheimer’s “Reason to Measure Learning” reminds me of why it is still relevant to measure learning. My question is, in the fast world of social networking applied in organizational learning, what happens to learning measurement? Does learning overlap tightly…
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Smaller Niches in Social Networking Support Micro-Learnings
Ross Mayfield pointed out that “Widgets and (Web Widget) are the battering rams that will fracture the sand castles of large social networks.” A Flickr widget brings people together around an object. A photo with an attached story can be…
37% Adults Use Social Networking – Adoption to e-Learning
Social networking is perceived by many adults as a waste of time. This is perhaps changing. Financial Post reported that 37% of adults visit social networking sites, 27% who visit FaceBook create a profile. I remember the time when corporate…
Facilitating Learning: On-grid and Off-Grid
Rick Borovoy, Co-Founder and CTO of nTag Interactive, has been doing a lot of experiments in helping implement a technology-assisted learning process where learners go back and forth from being “On-Grid” and “Off-Grid”. He refers to “On-Grid” as following a…
If the CFO knows the waste of non-reusable e-learning content, would they approve the budget?
REUSABILITY is not a technical term; it should be a term for the learners. Those of us who design systems use the word “reusability” from a technical view without understanding what the learners really want or need. What does reusability…
Isolating Performance Content with “Application Points”
To add to Clive Shepherd’s 30-Minute Masters (Clive, Your Wiki is a great practice of user content sharing), there is a need to help trainers, SMEs, leaders, and speakers to isolate “Application Points” from a huge body of content. “Application…
User created content – back to learner control
I just came in from Midhurst, West Sussex (old country), London. The place reminded me that humans have not changed through generations. People want to control things and their environment. While in flight, I finished reading Psychologist and Harvard Professor…
Leadership Summit – Phoenix, thoughts
I am in flight from Burbank to Phoenix. I am testing my Treo 700 by sending an email through it. While doing this, I am struggling in thought and emotions. “Hmmm… I must let go my wanting to post long…
e-Learning technologies help in training ROI measurement
Why don’t we have an innovation using e-Learning, rapid e-Learning, Web 2.0 technologies and other technologies to measure training ROI? Over the past few months I have been involved in a small study on: “How to help learners apply what…
Marrying Rapid e-Learning and Informal Learning
It is an interesting conversation to marry formal and informal learning and rapid e-learning. I agree with Patrick Dunn that rapid e-learning is largely misused. I think there are at least two ways to look at rapid e-learning: first, as…
Guide-on-the-Side Meetings on LMSs and Learning Platforms: Training 2007 Conference
Guide-on-the-Side Meetings: Provocative Questions for our Discussions Provocative Questions on the Future of LMS and Learning Platforms and how they impact you and your organizations. ___________________________________________ The materials below are lifted quotes from Josh Bersin, Elliott Masie, Tony Karrer, Jay…
“Making the invisible visible” – Old idea, new skin – social networking
Why are many of us in businesses surprised that social networking is so popular? I recall a presentation made by Bill Russell from Raytheon last November 2006 at Elliott Masie’s Learning Conference. His presentation on Social Networking Analysis (SNA) created…
Compelling Characters in Scenario-Based e-Learning (SBL) Makes e-Learning Relevant, Real-Life
Characters carry the learning messages in SBLs (Scenario-Based e-Learning). Characters in SBL stories serve these purposes: 1. Make the story more relevant and meaningful. 2. Allow us to empathize with the pain and pleasure of the characters. 3. Make us…
Sex & Violence in e-Learning: Creating Engaging Scenario-Based e-Learning
A Harvard professor once told me that one of the jobs of trainers and consultants “is to enrage, engage or throw warm and hot feelings to our audiences. The trouble is that a spit on the face is also a…
Insights on Business Drivers of Social Networking
Back to square one – my true love: people and groups. I am now in a learning technology-based business, though I am a frustrated “Organization Development” consultant (my PhD). However, I am back to where I started 25 years ago,…