This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. link] December 1-3, 2010 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 16 th , Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. link] January 2011 January 2-5, 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 12 th , Bangalore, India. link] January 3-5, 2011 International College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Maui, Hawaii, USA. And send that to Clayton. MORE >>

But on the other hand, I began to reflect on how we can (and do) use memory engineering to support learning and retention. Learning Retention learning retention memory performance support Training Development user adoptionIn my search for something to write about this month I stumbled upon an article in Wired magazine entitled “ Clive Thompson on Memory Engineering.” My first reactions to this were the following: Who uses Foursquare? Anyone? Why would someone really care about remembering minutiae from a year ago? So this “service” sounds a little like my worst nightmare. MORE >>

That includes not only the performance skills but also meta-learning, and I decided it was also time to take another stab at capturing the concept as a graphical representation. Here we are interested in how do we evaluate our own performance, look at what we’re doing and how we can get better at it, and support ourselves through the change.  Again as preparation for our upcoming presentation (you can attend!), I was thinking about the skills necessary to cope in this new information age.  Here, I start with the hermeneutic notion of how we act in the world and learn. MORE >>

However, when people use newer technologies, they tend to be very non -linear, be it surfing the web, using mobile devices or (especially) performance support systems. Don’t use terms like: “As the manager, you will…” In a good performance support system, it should not matter who the person is, the content should guide you and focus on the task you are trying to perform (or the information you are trying to learn) regardless of who you are I like to refer to this as designing object oriented content. How do we do it from a performance support perspective? MORE >>

How On Target Were My 2011 Predictions? It’s time once again to take stock of what happened in enterprise mobile learning and see if any of my 2011 predictions hit their intended targets. If 2010 was the year of the pilot, 2011 will be the year of the deployment. 2011 proved to be another year more focused on the pilot project rather than the production deployment for enterprise mobile learning solutions. The BYOD movement certainly gained momentum in 2011 across a simple majority of enterprise organizations we work with too. a.k.a. On the Target – But Barely. MORE >>