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Plymouth Rocks

Learning with e's

Over 25 papers, demonstrations and workshops were also presented (Jackie Sitters, above, presents a paper on wikis in higher education), featuring Second Life, blogs, wikis, webcasting, handheld and mobile technologies, and there were lunchtine demonstrations by BlackBoard and our own home grown Leatning Technologist team.

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Blow-up

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Pulse of the Profession Webcast. April 22, 2009, 2:00 P.M.-3:15 Blowing Up the Training Department: Make Learning a Management Priority. Are training departments REALLY necessary? Leveraging social networking, informal learning and e-learning are just a few ways to manage learning/training in the 21st Century. When will we GET it?

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Can On-the-Job Training Make Up for the Failures of Business Education?

Mindflash

HR pros participating in a Pearson 2009 webcast on increasing critical thinking in the workplace had doubts – 85 percent said they were not comfortable training critical thinking. Businesses suffer if employees aren’t equipped with reasoning skills, but can they make up for the failures of business education with on-the-job training?

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

Disclosure: Saba’s Centra was recently named the Webcast platform for Brandon Hall Research’s Webinars and virtual workshops in 2009. Prior LMSs in the kick-ass series: Cornerstone OnDemand. Generation21. GeoLearning. Meridian KSI. Next week: Mzinga.

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eLearning Conferences 2010

Tony Karrer

December 2009 December 1-4, 2009 New Zealand Association for Research in Education , Distinction Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. link] December 2-4, 2009 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 15 th , Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Profiles of a Twentysomething and a Fiftysomething Learner

Learning Visions

Shes participated in webcasts for work, but has never given one herself. Shes taken online continuing education classes to maintain her various professional licenses. I take continuing ed all the time for all of my license. Most of the time I do it online. It’s so much more convenient! Susie" graduated from college in 2003.

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Improve Quality of Life With Virtual Learning

CLO Magazine

In 2009, given the economic downturn, the group’s management began to experiment with alternatives to costly and time-consuming live meetings. Before 2009, employees working during the summer were required to attend live training, while those on layoff status were given catch-up training upon their return to work in the fall.

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