I attended the panel discussion on 'the future of rapid e-learning tools' at the eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering in Boston today with a misunderstanding. thought I knew what 'rapid e-learning' meant. After all, LTI Magazine defined raid e-learning as "courseware (live or self-paced) developed in less than three weeks, where SMEs act as the primary development resource". Bersin used a similar definition: "Web-based training programmes that can be created in a few weeks and which are authored largely by SMEs". Notice how similar these definitions are? Everyone will be a teacher. MORE >>

On the other hand, I am not completely unaware of what is happening in the world around me and so I was interested to meet, in Boston, a true m-learning enthusiast in the shape of David Metcalf and to walk away with a free copy of his book, mLearning (HRD Press, 2006), one of the few available on the subject. This would not be a particularly good time for me to be a teenager. At 156 pages this was a quick read and provided a useful overview of the state of m-learning circa 2005 (when the author concedes that it was written). Access to LMS functionality. MORE >>

Personal InfoCloud « LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) - 2 of 2 | Main SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools Overview The last couple of years I have had many conversations with a broad selection of mid-sized to large organizations. Broad Footprint What SharePoint 2007 Does Well Microsoft SharePoint 2007 seems to be in every enterprise I talk to, at least somewhere. In 2006 and 2007 the advent of social computing on the web (Web 2.0) mindsets and tools. It is used if a variety of different ways. dollars. MORE >>

Friday, August 10, 2007 More on Learning Styles Today Mark Oehlert points to Stephen Downes post Professor Pans Learning Style Teaching Method (in particular, the comments thread which I had missed as I typically just read Downes post right through the feed reader). Posted by Cammy Bean at 2:28 PM Labels: learning styles 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United States View my complete profile About This Blog Subscribe in a reader Subscribe via email Are you an Instructional Designer? eLearnin. MORE >>

I've been meeting really interesting people including Stephen Downes who was on a panel in Boston because I met him through blogging. Stephen Downes post Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools has a couple of good comments and he points to Beth Kanter's Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools which also has good comments and some nice links to other posts on the subject. The point of the discussion is roughly that there are different ways to measure your blogs success based on different purposes. It's like measuring 'friendship'. MORE >>