Now is the time for learning professionals to embrace social learning as an emerging and engaging way to enhance an organization’s learning strategy. Given this pending calamity, it’s time for learning leaders to rethink their strategy to make social learning an important piece of the learning spectrum. With fewer staff in learning-related roles, there are observably fewer learning professionals supporting the overarching learning strategy and execution plans. reformulate their learning strategy to become a combination of formal, informal, and social in nature. MORE >>

Al (1988) and is a fundamental tool that enables learners to control their thinking and has been revealed as an important skill in the fields of Engineering (Case, Gunstone, &Lewis, 2001) and technology (Phelps, Ellis, &Hase, 2002) as well as instructional design and training (Clark, 1988, 202; Reingold, Rimor, & Kalay, 2008) Rarely do students become self-aware of metacognition, instead an instructor needs to point it out to the students as an important element in problem-solving. 2002) Aplying cognitive strategies to instructional design. 2002, December). MORE >>

We've taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now. Is there some historical background here that I'm missing, like computers in the UK didn't have speakers until 2002 so they never bothered? What's your take on using audio in eLearning? For or against? Do you use audio on every slide because the client says people will think it's broken if you don't? This has happened to me!) We know to avoid narrating text word for word, for instance. You do know that, right?) Really. In the UK, Mark tells me that audio is used sparingly. MORE >>

This started with the Conservative government of the time, and continued with Tony Blair's Labour government; especially with the introduction of the National Strategies. There is now evidence to suggest that the approach taken in the UK and elsewhere has reduced levels of motivation, efficacy, commitment, job satisfaction and effectiveness (Day 2002), and also creativity (Robinson 2006). 2002) "School reform and transitions in teacher professionalism and identity". International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 37, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 677-692. Sachs, J. MORE >>

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. Charles identified six issues which needed attention: The lack of a coherent global learning strategy. The lack of a global vendor management strategy, leading to inefficiencies in procurement and inconsistencies in learning outputs. He set about finding out what was currently being spent on l&d. There were no standards and massive duplication of effort. MORE >>