LinkedIn’s partnership with BusinessWeek is a sign of continuing acceptance of social networking and professionals having specific purposes in outcomes and tasks. http://inmedialog.com/index.php/archives/top-business-mags-embrace-social-networking/ Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com “Helping Learners Learn Their Way”
Why Do Top Executives Make e-Learning Systems a Business Strategy?
Sometimes e-Learning leaders and professionals act out the “pigeon dance.” Pigeons keep on doing what they do because it worked in the past. They are slow to adapt to new ways or finding them. E-Learning leaders and professionals can break…
What Does It Mean to Learning and Training – Cisco’s Purchase of Social Network -Tribe.net
New York Times reported Cisco’s purchase of www.Tribe.net. This means social networking functions will be “ubiquitous as regular Web sites” –this will help the acceptance of social learning in businesses. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/technology/03social.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/A/Andreessen,%20Marc&oref=slogin Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com“Helping Learners Learn Their Way”
Social Networks Will Be Like Air .. Sociograms
Charlene Li from Forrester Research shared the slides on Future of Social Networking. Key points: Social networks will be like air Components of social network Bill of rights of social web Social graph http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/the-future-of-social-networks?src=embed The socio-graph (above) is like the…
Organizing Videos for Instant Learning and Sharing in e-Learning
A lot of e-Learning use videos. We can learn from how this site, WebbAlert, produces and delivers its video to make it viral. When applied in e-Learning, viral means easy to share, reference, subscribe, embed… in essence easy-to-use video libraries…
Games that Social Network Members Can Play. Training please?
Visual Search – Impacts for e-Learning, See an LMS with Search
Visual Search http://www.searchme.com/ is really cool. It searches pages and show you web page with images. Introduction to Search Me Search Demo Imagine this. Your LMS has a search engine that instantly shows people a page. Visit VFT’s LMS at…
Who Says You Can’t Do a Game on Serious Topics – from Nobelprize.org
“Trade Ruler Game” “Bertil Ohlin, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977, showed that countries engage in and benefit from trade if their production resources differ from each other.” http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/economics/trade/index.html I find this interesting. A good example of making…
Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Glossary of Terms
How We Adapt to Technology
Recorded Session: Elearning Magazine and Adobe Webinar on Rapid e-Learning Deployment
This is a recorded session of my presentation on Rapid e-Learning Deployment. The event was sponsored by Elearning Magazine and Adobe. I was told this recording will be available for one year. After March 20, 2009, the link may not…
Do We Really Need to Go to Our PCs to Do Social Networking?
Do we really need to go to our PCs to be in social networking? I have been testing social networking on the move or mobile … I tried http://twitter.com/ –which allows me quick exchanges and frequent contacts. Trutap http://trutap.com/ enables…
What Happens in Co-creation of Knowledge? Micro-Interactions in Social Learning
Do we simply socialize for socialization’s sake? Or do we socialize because of expected outcomes? I think the desired outcomes have much to do with the quality of socialization. Many social learning or collaborative learning approaches focus on the “tools:…
Special Reports: 10 Emerging Technologies 2008
MIT’s Technology Review published the Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2008. Of interest is modeling surprise, preparing for the unexpected by combining the study of massive data and human psychology. Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com “Helping Learners Learn Their Way”
Where Have All the LMSs Gone? Growth in the Purchase of LMSs, Hybrids and Learning 2.0
As I have shared in my workshops and consulting work, LMSs are alive and kicking, but they are morphing into different forms and shapes. Josh Bersin just concluded a report on the growth of LMSs. These are the mutations of…