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George Siemens began the day by challenging us to see the world as a set of trade-offs. What’s the optimal balance point? Asking people to jot ideas on the white board, the line that divides presenter from audience began to blur. We’re all audience; we all presenters; it shifts back and forth. Few things are black or white; most are shades of gray. As George said, it’s nutty for only one person to do the talking among a group of 125 people. MORE
This coming Tuesday, March 10, I’ll be leading a brown-bag lunch session on Informal Learning: Learning Outside of the Classroom at IARC on the campus of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Ping me if you’re interested. On Thursday, March 12, the Learning Irregulars and I will facilitate a BarCamp on unmeetings and whatever issues seem important to us at the time. Come to experience a meeting where participants create their own agenda. MORE
Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. The place to begin is by identifying a business objective that is vital to a corporate sponsor. New roles for former trainers. MORE
Welcome to the first edition of Signposts for 2009, which comes to you live today from the San Diego airport. And finally, we can’t start 2009 without a look back at 2008. The last Apple attended MacWorld in San Francisco spawned this fantastic interaction design and concept video. The IxDA got down to discussing design strategy. Check out Barbara Ballard , Peter Merholz and Andrew Otwell’s comments. It’s good stuff. MORE
George Siemens , Tony Karrer , and I are pleased to announce the LearnTrends 2009 Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize products, projects, processes, and companies that represent interesting innovations in applying technology for Corporate / Workplace Learning and Performance. Winners will make short presentations during the LearnTrends conference. Deadline for submission is: October 30. To apply for an award, fill out the: Submission Form. Spread the word. MORE
LearnTrends 2009 is going to be awesome. Check the Agenda on the LearnTrends 2009 tab. Yesterday I drew up the tentative agenda. Our theme is convergence in corporate learning. We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving forward. These people… …will be addressing these topics: Convergence in Learning. Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations. MORE
Here are the nine top NineShift discoveries of 2009. First evidence that the solution to boys' bad grades actually works. May 19) 2. Among young people, support for cars plunges. May 5) 3. City of the 21st century to be 200 miles long. June 2) 4. Higher education model is "broke." (Feb 8; Feb 4; Feb 3; and Feb 2) 5. The 5 learning habits that hurt women discovered. Feb 8) 6. GED for college proposed by NineShift. March 16) 7. NineShift discovers why the economy is in recession. MORE
Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009 Interesting that my own post got the top spot. My top ten tips for getting started with eLearning: - Ignatia Webs , April 6, 2009 It ain’t always easy to dive into eLearning. Building Better Learning Games - Learning Visions , April 9, 2009 Interested in building casual games for your learners? Don't Waste Your Time , April 1, 2009 This has been brewing for some time now. MORE
The year 2009 is half over. Time to think about the top stories for the first half of 2009. Here's the most important 'news' stories about the transition from the Industrial Age to the Internet Age. You vote below (make a comment) on which one you think is the most important. High speed trains in the U.S. get $8 billion in funding. The Higher Education financial model is now recognized as broken. The government tries to save the car industry. Socialism becomes an issue in the U.S. MORE
I was thrilled that representatives from both agreed to speak at UX Week 2009 a few weeks ago, to share some insight as to how they innovate. Aaron Forth | UX Week 2009 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Bernhard Seefeld and Elizabeth Windram | UX Week 2009 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. When I think of leading web applications, Mint.com and Google Maps come to mind. MORE
Nancy White and John Smith will be doing a session at LearnTrends 2009 (a free online conference – you should definitely go register). We would really appreciate if your blog post can also mention the conference and the innovation awards and the Digital Habitats Contest: LearnTrends 2009 - Free Online Conference LearnTrends Innovation Awards Rules 1. Session Descriptions Below are the descriptions of the sessions that Nancy and John will be involved with at LearnTrends 2009. MORE
Planning for UX Week 2009 continues at a torrid pace, and we’ll have many things to share in the coming few weeks. Temple Grandin, Ph.D. author ( Animals Make Us Human , Thinking In Pictures ) will be our keynote speaker for Day 2, with a talk titled “Animals, Autism, and Design.&# MORE
George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer are pleased to announce our third annual free online conference: LearnTrends 2009 The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. I'll also be providing details shortly about the LearnTrends Innovation Awards 2009. MORE
Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 eLearning Conferences Tool Set 2009 Remote Collaboration Better Memory Share Best Practices – Patterns Information Radar How long does it take to select an LMS? One of the best things about having kids is getting a Spring Break with them. I'm fortunate enough to be doing that this week. MORE
Here are the top items via eLearning Learning. MORE
I’ll again be on the team of “sharers&# for the LearnTrends 2009 online event hosted by Tony Karrer, Jay Cross and George Siemens. This time I’ll be dialing in from Australia (I’ll put that schedule up next!). I hope I remember to set my alarm clock!!! Here is the info about the bit I’m doing with John Smith (one of my co-authors and co-conspiritors). E-learning outside the training box. MORE
We missed last week, so we’re going double-or-nothing this time. Twice the goodness! Matt Jones’ chrono-mind-blast blows our circadians: We Have All The Time in the World. Information visualizations the old skool way, featuring the genius work of Mark Lombardi. Hey look! A new Flickr-searching desktop app that can place photos and captions directly into Keynote. Here’s a new blog that’s a gallery of great RIA design. MORE
February 2009 Posts. February 2009 Keywords. Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. It’s a time-saver, time is money, and most of us could use more of it. Enter smart aggregation. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. MORE
So as we start off in a gloomy looking 2009, I’ll put on my hunch-hat and share my nine ideas of experiences who’s time has come: Enabling behavior change — Whether it’s to extend your paycheck or conserve your energy, there’s plenty of reasons for people to change how they behave this year. Tags: Experience Strategy 2009 user experience predictions experiences Futures Timing is everything. MORE
eLearn Magazine offers predictions for 2009 and Editor Lisa Neal Gualtieri says that the people polled “ unanimously agree the global economic downturn is the overwhelming factor coloring their forecasts, [however] they do see a great array of opportunities and challenges in the coming 12 months. &#. MORE
Andy McAfee gave us a lively and informative presentation on his view of Enterprise 2.0. Punctuated by insightful examples, he defined Enterprise 2.0 MORE
In fact, my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 , was most popular post for 2009 (see 2009 Top Posts and Topics ) and it came up pretty high in the recent Top 125 eLearning Posts of 2009. So this post is my chance to go back to the predictions I made at the start of 2009 and see how I did. #1 As I discussed in my look at what I learned during 2009, I’ve found that the term eLearning 2.0 My thinking has definitely evolved around this in 2009. MORE
We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. The session was fraught with technical difficulties, so I thought it would be worth capturing a bit about each of the four award winners here. CUDA Business Brain CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia. In 2007, they launched the CUDA Business Brain as an integrated Workplace Performance Support Solution. MORE
I’m going to reflect on what I’ve been up to in 2009 thus far. Winter 2009. Spring 2009. Gave opening keynote at IADIS eLearning 2009 on Rethinking Instructional Design in Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal. My new car is one year old! How did that happen? Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’ into the future. Midyear already! How did we get here so quickly? It’s making me dizzy. MORE
By David Gurteen I am looking forward to participating in KM Singapore this year (13-14 August 2009) where I will be running a workshop. I have attended this conference twice in recent years and its always a very engaging interactive event. You may like to watch this. video of a short introduction that I gave to the Case Study Cafe at the conference in 2007 - to help position the participants for reflective dialogue. This year the conference also features Etienne Wenger and Steve Ellis. MORE
By David Gurteen I will be attending KM Asia in Singapore this year (24 - 26 November 2009). I will be in good company with. Dave Snowden , Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd Mary Lee Kennedy , Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School John Girard , Associate Professor, Minot State University. I will be busy. not only delivering a keynote talk but also running a workshop and facilitating a reverse brainstorming cafe. MORE
This is to update you as to what to expect through 2009 for conferences. I have a limit of one conference per month, so this is basically it for 2009. MORE
It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is. I’ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009. But for now, let me just focus on my Best of 2009. Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank eLearning Portal Integration Data Driven Notable Topics for 2009 Work Skills and Knowledge Work Work Skills Keeping Up? MORE
But hopefully 2009 will be the year when that begins to change. If you care about being relevant and valuable in 2015, you had better be making moves in 2009. Recommendations The intent of this series is to capture my thinking at the start of 2009 about the tools and methods for work and learning. I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning. MORE
What are the trends to watch in 2009? 2009 will be the year inspired mobile UI design goes mainstream. 2009 will be remembered as the year mobile UI became intuitive, creative… and inspired. In 2009, we’ll see begin to see glimpses of these types of predictive mobile systems. In 2009, we’ll see a groundswell of ordinary people with a great idea open up SDKs and create modest little mobile web apps that revolutionize the world. MORE
It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. In my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 , my last prediction was: Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG. We won't hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something you'll hear in a big way. MORE
Over at eLearn Magazine , Lisa Neal Gualtieri gets elearning predictions for 2009, and they’re reliably interesting. Here’re mine: The ordinary: Mobile will emerge, not as a major upheaval, but quietly infiltrating our learning experiences. We’ll see more use of games (er, Immersive Learning Simulations) as a powerful learning opportunity, and tools to make it easier to develop. Social networking will become the ‘go to’ option to drive performance improvements. MORE
By David Gurteen I mentioned recently that I would be participating in KM Asia in November. The organisers - the Ark Group - have just announced great early bird deal - take a look at the early bird brochure. It expires on the 21st August. I will also be speaking at KM Singapore in August MORE
In my post, 2008 2009 - written in December 2008, I looked at how well I did in those predictions, and my results were pretty good, not perfect. Some training will still be preferred face to face such as when team building or in-person soft skills are important, but 2009 will be the year when we realize that we should be justifying any in-person training. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue. Last year I laid out in January my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008. MORE
PodCampHalifax2009 seems like a great mid-Winter activity. Time to get away from my computer screen and meet some folks. This year’s event is the Aldernay Gate Public Library on 25 January, from 9 to 5. This is an unconference , focused on social media (blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, etc). The goal is to have an open, participatory, user-generated series of workshops and the people who attend are the presenters. MORE
The agenda has been set for LearnTrends 2009 (17-19 Nov 2009) and it looks extremely interesting. I will be giving a session on personal knowledge management and participating in a discussion with my colleagues at the re-branded Internet Time Alliance. The main theme is convergence and topics include: Reinventing organizational learning. Building a social learning environment. Microlearning. elearning outside the training box. MORE
Twitter has significantly change how I communicate online. Though I registered in 2007, after having tried tried out Jaiku, I didn’t really adopt micro-blogging until mid 2008. This past year I made around 5,000 Tweets or about 13 a day. Twitter’s constraint of 14o characters is its greatest asset. You can only get one thought or comment out at a time. MORE
And as part of this, I’ve been taking advantage of: 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. 2009 has continued that effort. And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this. However, during 2009, I had a bit of an aha moment. was considered a hot term in 2007 and 2008, but not in 2009. MORE
Predictions for 2009. I welcome your thoughts of what made these the most interesting posts of 2009. Seeing all the top 10 lists, I thought I’d look at what the top 10 posts were for Learnlets (using Google Analytics), and I have to say that the responses were interesting, as some weren’t the ones I thought were most interesting. MORE
Last week I participated in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The CIO Symposium is an annual one-day conference on the MIT campus, now in its sixth year, “where CIOs and other senior business executives from around the world gather to explore how leading-edge academic research and innovative technologies can help address the challenges faced in today’s changing economy.” The theme of this year's Symposium was Sustaining CIO Leadership in a Changing Economy. MORE
eLearning is not a big cost-cutter. C orporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons. It’s cheaper: no travel, no facilities cost, no instructor salaries. This sort of fanciful thinking tripped up eLearning ten years ago. Informal Learning 2.0. I n the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. MORE
Just a quick note that I will be up in Vancouver for E-LEARN 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education. If you are attending and see this post, please drop me a note. It's always good to connect with people face-to-face at events. eLearning Technology. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs MORE
2009 Related Topics Adaptive Path
JANUARY 5, 2009
So as we start off in a gloomy looking 2009, I’ll put on my hunch-hat and share my nine ideas of experiences who’s time has come: Enabling behavior change — Whether it’s to extend your paycheck or conserve your energy, there’s plenty of reasons for people to change how they behave this year. Tags: Experience Strategy 2009 user experience predictions experiences Futures Timing is everything.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 17, 2009
LearnTrends 2009 is going to be awesome. Check the Agenda on the LearnTrends 2009 tab. Yesterday I drew up the tentative agenda. Our theme is convergence in corporate learning. We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving forward. These people… …will be addressing these topics: Convergence in Learning. Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations.
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Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Andy McAfee gave us a lively and informative presentation on his view of Enterprise 2.0. Punctuated by insightful examples, he defined Enterprise 2.0
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 19, 2009
The agenda has been set for LearnTrends 2009 (17-19 Nov 2009) and it looks extremely interesting. I will be giving a session on personal knowledge management and participating in a discussion with my colleagues at the re-branded Internet Time Alliance. The main theme is convergence and topics include: Reinventing organizational learning. Building a social learning environment. Microlearning. elearning outside the training box.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 16, 2009
Just a quick note that I will be up in Vancouver for E-LEARN 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education. If you are attending and see this post, please drop me a note. It's always good to connect with people face-to-face at events. eLearning Technology. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 3, 2009
George Siemens , Tony Karrer , and I are pleased to announce the LearnTrends 2009 Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize products, projects, processes, and companies that represent interesting innovations in applying technology for Corporate / Workplace Learning and Performance. Winners will make short presentations during the LearnTrends conference. Deadline for submission is: October 30. To apply for an award, fill out the: Submission Form. Spread the word.
Nancy White
OCTOBER 22, 2009
I’ll again be on the team of “sharers&# for the LearnTrends 2009 online event hosted by Tony Karrer, Jay Cross and George Siemens. This time I’ll be dialing in from Australia (I’ll put that schedule up next!). I hope I remember to set my alarm clock!!! Here is the info about the bit I’m doing with John Smith (one of my co-authors and co-conspiritors). E-learning outside the training box.
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 28, 2009
Twitter has significantly change how I communicate online. Though I registered in 2007, after having tried tried out Jaiku, I didn’t really adopt micro-blogging until mid 2008. This past year I made around 5,000 Tweets or about 13 a day. Twitter’s constraint of 14o characters is its greatest asset. You can only get one thought or comment out at a time.
Tony Karrer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer are pleased to announce our third annual free online conference: LearnTrends 2009 The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. I'll also be providing details shortly about the LearnTrends Innovation Awards 2009.
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2009
This coming Tuesday, March 10, I’ll be leading a brown-bag lunch session on Informal Learning: Learning Outside of the Classroom at IARC on the campus of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Ping me if you’re interested. On Thursday, March 12, the Learning Irregulars and I will facilitate a BarCamp on unmeetings and whatever issues seem important to us at the time. Come to experience a meeting where participants create their own agenda.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 9, 2009
In fact, my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 , was most popular post for 2009 (see 2009 Top Posts and Topics ) and it came up pretty high in the recent Top 125 eLearning Posts of 2009. So this post is my chance to go back to the predictions I made at the start of 2009 and see how I did. #1 As I discussed in my look at what I learned during 2009, I’ve found that the term eLearning 2.0 My thinking has definitely evolved around this in 2009.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 5, 2009
But hopefully 2009 will be the year when that begins to change. If you care about being relevant and valuable in 2015, you had better be making moves in 2009. Recommendations The intent of this series is to capture my thinking at the start of 2009 about the tools and methods for work and learning. I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 11, 2009
This is to update you as to what to expect through 2009 for conferences. I have a limit of one conference per month, so this is basically it for 2009.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. The session was fraught with technical difficulties, so I thought it would be worth capturing a bit about each of the four award winners here. CUDA Business Brain CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia. In 2007, they launched the CUDA Business Brain as an integrated Workplace Performance Support Solution.
Nine Shift
JULY 27, 2009
Here are the nine top NineShift discoveries of 2009. First evidence that the solution to boys' bad grades actually works. May 19) 2. Among young people, support for cars plunges. May 5) 3. City of the 21st century to be 200 miles long. June 2) 4. Higher education model is "broke." (Feb 8; Feb 4; Feb 3; and Feb 2) 5. The 5 learning habits that hurt women discovered. Feb 8) 6. GED for college proposed by NineShift. March 16) 7. NineShift discovers why the economy is in recession.
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 14, 2009
And as part of this, I’ve been taking advantage of: 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. 2009 has continued that effort. And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this. However, during 2009, I had a bit of an aha moment. was considered a hot term in 2007 and 2008, but not in 2009.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 1, 2010
Predictions for 2009. I welcome your thoughts of what made these the most interesting posts of 2009. Seeing all the top 10 lists, I thought I’d look at what the top 10 posts were for Learnlets (using Google Analytics), and I have to say that the responses were interesting, as some weren’t the ones I thought were most interesting.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
DECEMBER 29, 2009
Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. The place to begin is by identifying a business objective that is vital to a corporate sponsor. New roles for former trainers.
Adaptive Path
JANUARY 7, 2009
What are the trends to watch in 2009? 2009 will be the year inspired mobile UI design goes mainstream. 2009 will be remembered as the year mobile UI became intuitive, creative… and inspired. In 2009, we’ll see begin to see glimpses of these types of predictive mobile systems. In 2009, we’ll see a groundswell of ordinary people with a great idea open up SDKs and create modest little mobile web apps that revolutionize the world.
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 10, 2009
eLearn Magazine offers predictions for 2009 and Editor Lisa Neal Gualtieri says that the people polled “ unanimously agree the global economic downturn is the overwhelming factor coloring their forecasts, [however] they do see a great array of opportunities and challenges in the coming 12 months. &#.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 26, 2009
In my post, 2008 2009 - written in December 2008, I looked at how well I did in those predictions, and my results were pretty good, not perfect. Some training will still be preferred face to face such as when team building or in-person soft skills are important, but 2009 will be the year when we realize that we should be justifying any in-person training. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue. Last year I laid out in January my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 24, 2009
Last week I participated in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The CIO Symposium is an annual one-day conference on the MIT campus, now in its sixth year, “where CIOs and other senior business executives from around the world gather to explore how leading-edge academic research and innovative technologies can help address the challenges faced in today’s changing economy.” The theme of this year's Symposium was Sustaining CIO Leadership in a Changing Economy.
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 9, 2009
PodCampHalifax2009 seems like a great mid-Winter activity. Time to get away from my computer screen and meet some folks. This year’s event is the Aldernay Gate Public Library on 25 January, from 9 to 5. This is an unconference , focused on social media (blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, etc). The goal is to have an open, participatory, user-generated series of workshops and the people who attend are the presenters.
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2009
February 2009 Posts. February 2009 Keywords. Wouldn’t it be cool to let the wisdom of your crowd suggest things on the net that merit your attention? It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. It’s a time-saver, time is money, and most of us could use more of it. Enter smart aggregation. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account.
Jay Cross
JULY 4, 2009
I’m going to reflect on what I’ve been up to in 2009 thus far. Winter 2009. Spring 2009. Gave opening keynote at IADIS eLearning 2009 on Rethinking Instructional Design in Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal. My new car is one year old! How did that happen? Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’ into the future. Midyear already! How did we get here so quickly? It’s making me dizzy.
Tony Karrer
APRIL 13, 2009
Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009 Interesting that my own post got the top spot. My top ten tips for getting started with eLearning: - Ignatia Webs , April 6, 2009 It ain’t always easy to dive into eLearning. Building Better Learning Games - Learning Visions , April 9, 2009 Interested in building casual games for your learners? Don't Waste Your Time , April 1, 2009 This has been brewing for some time now.
David Gurteen
JUNE 22, 2009
By David Gurteen I am looking forward to participating in KM Singapore this year (13-14 August 2009) where I will be running a workshop. I have attended this conference twice in recent years and its always a very engaging interactive event. You may like to watch this. video of a short introduction that I gave to the Case Study Cafe at the conference in 2007 - to help position the participants for reflective dialogue. This year the conference also features Etienne Wenger and Steve Ellis.
Nine Shift
JULY 27, 2009
The year 2009 is half over. Time to think about the top stories for the first half of 2009. Here's the most important 'news' stories about the transition from the Industrial Age to the Internet Age. You vote below (make a comment) on which one you think is the most important. High speed trains in the U.S. get $8 billion in funding. The Higher Education financial model is now recognized as broken. The government tries to save the car industry. Socialism becomes an issue in the U.S.
David Gurteen
JULY 21, 2009
By David Gurteen I mentioned recently that I would be participating in KM Asia in November. The organisers - the Ark Group - have just announced great early bird deal - take a look at the early bird brochure. It expires on the 21st August. I will also be speaking at KM Singapore in August
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 3, 2008
It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. In my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 , my last prediction was: Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG. We won't hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something you'll hear in a big way.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
George Siemens began the day by challenging us to see the world as a set of trade-offs. What’s the optimal balance point? Asking people to jot ideas on the white board, the line that divides presenter from audience began to blur. We’re all audience; we all presenters; it shifts back and forth. Few things are black or white; most are shades of gray. As George said, it’s nutty for only one person to do the talking among a group of 125 people.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 29, 2009
eLearning is not a big cost-cutter. C orporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons. It’s cheaper: no travel, no facilities cost, no instructor salaries. This sort of fanciful thinking tripped up eLearning ten years ago. Informal Learning 2.0. I n the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age.
Tony Karrer
APRIL 6, 2009
Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 eLearning Conferences Tool Set 2009 Remote Collaboration Better Memory Share Best Practices – Patterns Information Radar How long does it take to select an LMS? One of the best things about having kids is getting a Spring Break with them. I'm fortunate enough to be doing that this week.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Over at eLearn Magazine , Lisa Neal Gualtieri gets elearning predictions for 2009, and they’re reliably interesting. Here’re mine: The ordinary: Mobile will emerge, not as a major upheaval, but quietly infiltrating our learning experiences. We’ll see more use of games (er, Immersive Learning Simulations) as a powerful learning opportunity, and tools to make it easier to develop. Social networking will become the ‘go to’ option to drive performance improvements.
David Gurteen
JUNE 22, 2009
By David Gurteen I will be attending KM Asia in Singapore this year (24 - 26 November 2009). I will be in good company with. Dave Snowden , Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd Mary Lee Kennedy , Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School John Girard , Associate Professor, Minot State University. I will be busy. not only delivering a keynote talk but also running a workshop and facilitating a reverse brainstorming cafe.
Adaptive Path
NOVEMBER 20, 2009
We missed last week, so we’re going double-or-nothing this time. Twice the goodness! Matt Jones’ chrono-mind-blast blows our circadians: We Have All The Time in the World. Information visualizations the old skool way, featuring the genius work of Mark Lombardi. Hey look! A new Flickr-searching desktop app that can place photos and captions directly into Keynote. Here’s a new blog that’s a gallery of great RIA design.
Adaptive Path
APRIL 8, 2009
Planning for UX Week 2009 continues at a torrid pace, and we’ll have many things to share in the coming few weeks. Temple Grandin, Ph.D. author ( Animals Make Us Human , Thinking In Pictures ) will be our keynote speaker for Day 2, with a talk titled “Animals, Autism, and Design.&#
Adaptive Path
JANUARY 9, 2009
Welcome to the first edition of Signposts for 2009, which comes to you live today from the San Diego airport. And finally, we can’t start 2009 without a look back at 2008. The last Apple attended MacWorld in San Francisco spawned this fantastic interaction design and concept video. The IxDA got down to discussing design strategy. Check out Barbara Ballard , Peter Merholz and Andrew Otwell’s comments. It’s good stuff.
Adaptive Path
OCTOBER 15, 2009
I was thrilled that representatives from both agreed to speak at UX Week 2009 a few weeks ago, to share some insight as to how they innovate. Aaron Forth | UX Week 2009 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Bernhard Seefeld and Elizabeth Windram | UX Week 2009 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. When I think of leading web applications, Mint.com and Google Maps come to mind.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Nancy White and John Smith will be doing a session at LearnTrends 2009 (a free online conference – you should definitely go register). We would really appreciate if your blog post can also mention the conference and the innovation awards and the Digital Habitats Contest: LearnTrends 2009 - Free Online Conference LearnTrends Innovation Awards Rules 1. Session Descriptions Below are the descriptions of the sessions that Nancy and John will be involved with at LearnTrends 2009.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 26, 2009
Here are the top items via eLearning Learning.
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