The iPad is now available in the US, although we'll have to wait a little longer for it in the UK.  So how is it going to be used for education, training and workplace learning? . Their website goes on to say. With this technology at your fingertips, you can create a just-in-time. the twenty-first century workforce.". Here's the preview video. MORE >>

As part of last month’s big question Open Content in Workplace Learning? I’ve been trying to find out more about specific answers to Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning. They are there to help set up the licenses. But that said, it also shows a failure of the current licenses. What do I mean by a failure? That’s great news. MORE >>

I nformal Learning has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management&# without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Read this scathing commentary by Peter Casebow , Jane Hart , and Harold Jarche. It’s time to clear the air. series. MORE >>

Clay Shirky, in the collapse of complex business models , notes: Bureaucracies temporarily reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it’s easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one. I’m not sure if complexity is the issue. see it more as complication. MORE >>

I’m usually a late adopter of new technology, largely because I’m frugal. don’t like to spend money until I know just what the value is that I will be getting. So, when I heard about the iPad, I wasn’t one of those who signed up in advance. And, after all, I am on the stump about mobile learning. The decision. The purchase. MORE >>