One of the really cool things about eLearning Learning and Browse My Stuff is the ability of the system to determine hot topics or trends based on the content that is being brought together in topic hubs.  Using the system, I found that the top hot topics in eLearning for 2009. Twitter has been the talk of the town during 2009.  For me, I’m still figuring out where twitter will fit - Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool.  Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources , August 12, 2009. Free PowerPoint Twitter Tools , October 6, 2009. May 22, 2009. MORE >>

Check out this YouTube video that demonstrates AR from the SMLXL blog ; It is also worth watching this video, this time from TED Talks: “ Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps “ Here Blaise shows a new Microsoft online mapping enterprise called Bing Maps, which is amazing (dependent, I would think, on the quality of your Internet connection?) Realistic models : AR provides a means of “seeing&# phenomena in 3D, thereby bringing the contextual three dimensional nature of the real world to the their learning. YouTube So, what is it? Web 3.0 MORE >>

The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. Besides being able to author, publish, discover, and use high-quality learning objects, it is equally important to use multimedia-rich learning objects. This inevitably sets new requirements in multimedia-enhanced learning environments for the advanced representation and creation of learning metadata. blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. Spector ( 2009 ) of Google Inc. techniques (e.g. Yessad, C. MORE >>

A quick recap of some of the SoMobNet International Roundtable on "Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning" that ran on 21 November 2011 in London: [link] Guy Merchant's keynote: [link] From which I quote some key ideas here: What happens when mobiles are founds in formal educational contexts? Classroom ecologies: possibilities for different kinds of learning relationships. David Parry coins the term mobile literacy. 2009 Campsmount secondary school , when burnt to ground. Head sprints around school ‘capturing learning’ using Soundcloud etc. MORE >>

That smartphones were the answer to mobile learning. Social learning? If they were doing it, Facebook like page, a crummy blog that looks nothing like a real blog, a Twitter like feed, maybe RSS, text chat and YouTube functions and upload/download angle. significant number of vendors, reported higher revenue and sales numbers in 2010, then in 2009. While they still offer the LMS as we all know it, and its “learning&# approach, they are really driving into the TM space. 2  Mobile Learning. From the makers of Upside Learning. MORE >>