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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. Give us a few examples. Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work. Response 14.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Foucault, Control and the LMS

Mark Oehlert

This is something I have been thinking about since Boston and the e-Learning Guild conference where I described instructional design as being a schema for control. It is a prime example of whatFoucault calls power/knowledge, since it combines into a unified whole"the deployment of force and the establishment of truth" (184).

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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

I think Jon is a good example of that, and I think he really takes that humility to heart. So creating a culture that focuses on its people, that strives for diversity and inclusion, and so on. And, quick promo, we’ve got Breakfast Clubs happening in Boston, D.C., You’re creating chaos and disempowering your people.

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Breakthrough eLearning: Why I Hate Conferences!

Breakthrough eLearning

Elliott Masie tried to reverse some of these trends in the Learning 2005 Conference last fall. For example, at the recent eLearning Producers Conference in Boston, I sat through a one-hour discussion about simulations and another one on gaming in training. However, we often squander these opportunities. This was rather surreal.