Unfortunately, Training Magazine is folding up shop on its web site, print magazine and conferences. You can read some posts about its closing: Training Magazine Closes and Now, it appears, So Do the Conferences It's Happening in the Learning Industry: Training Magazine and Web Site Shutting Down RIP Training Magazine by Jane Bozarth Training Magazine, RIP by Jay Cross Training Magazine and Web Site to Close at Learning Solutions Magazine Fortunately, over the past few years a number of information sources have arisen that can provide good, solid information about the industry. MORE >>

This week the Learning Solutions magazine published an article I wrote on MOOCs as a new eLearning frontier. As I was writing the article, I suddenly noticed I had not mentioned my two favorite free and inspiring accessible, online eLearning magazines: Learning Solutions magazine , eLearn magazine. If you have not put them in your RSS feed or if you have not connected to their e-mail newsletter, take a minute to get to know these magazines. Learning Solutions magazine This magazine is published by the knowledgeable Bill Brandon. MORE >>

I received the email newsletter from eLearn Magazine earlier this week and was interested in the lead article: “ Finding a Place for Twitter in Higher Education “ The article makes some interesting points so please read the original on the link above, but I want to comment on just a couple of them; “Twitter has various educational uses in both developing countries and more developed ones. But the real tipping point for Twitter in education will only come if teachers can manage to add Twitter to their arsenal of teaching tools. Twitter eLearning Academia 2.0 MORE >>

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Nielsen Business Media is shutting down Training magazine and its companion Web site, trainingmag.com. The first saw Training magazine in 1977. “You mean there’s really a magazine about this stuff?&# The editors and publisher of the magazine were promoters of the training business, much as O’Reilly Media supports all things internet these days. Ron Zemke and Jack Gordon wrote and shaped a thought-provoking magazine. Their editor told me not to submit articles because I wasn’t a full-time journalist. I became an avid reader. MORE >>