Tony Karrer and George Siemens are organizing a free online conference on Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations on November 15 – 20, 2007. Ray Jimenez, PhDVignettes Learning“Helping Learners Learn Their Way”
Gary Hamel – The Future of Management – Web 2.0 and Community Driven Management Models
In Gary Hamel’s most recent book “The Future of Management” published at the Harvard Business School Press, he expresses his view of the future of management. He suggests that in the future, enterprises’ organizations will resemble “community-driven” models of Web…
Organics and Stories: 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
At the heart of 3-Minute e-Learning (2007), I recommend to e-learning developers, SMEs, and project managers to use organics: stories, metaphors, cases, scenarios, narratives, and others. Organics help learners learn quickly because they can relate the content to a real-life…
Consequences of skipping formal learning
San Jose, Ca, Airport: Mobile log I am curious and have to research this issue. Please help. Do Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 offer solutions for supporting formal learning, specifically micro-learning? I do not refer to classroom training. I am…
e-Learning 2.0 Driven by Web 2.0 “SLATES”
Dion Hinchcliffe made a good summary of where Web 2.0 is impacting Enterprise 2.0. In his article he summarizes the new reports from Forrester, CIO Insight and McKinsey that suggests the faster adoption of Web 2.0 in enterprises. What is…
Why measure learning and relevance in technology
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…
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…