The following video by YouTube user mokmcdaniel shows what an online student’s experience would look like if his instructor’s lack of instruction had occurred in a face-to-face classroom. Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out: 20% of businesses using social media instead of e-mail by 2014 50% of businesses using activity streams, such as micro-blogging, by 2012 Best of eLearning Learning I

Size of the workforce – 162 million - Millenials will make up 47% of workforce in 2014. People are talking about your brand on MySpace, YouTube, etc. MySpace, YouTube, Facebook now more “fun.”. Presentation: Monday Morning Keynote Presenter: Tony Bingham, President ASTD No internet in the big halls. Probably interferes with the audience polling system.

Online video whether it be streaming, YouTube or Podcasts has replaced TV for large swathes of the population. This generation will be 47% of the workforce by 2014. This model has worked for Facebook, YouTube etc. Informal learning takes place outside of traditional settings like classrooms, training rooms and self study programmes. It is essentially tacit knowledge which we obtain or locate from talking to the correct person.