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Here Come the MOOCs

CLO Magazine

The three most visible MOOC providers — Coursera, Udacity and edX — have partnered with colleges and universities. “That’s an important topic for every CLO to look at,” said Elliott Masie, CEO and founder of The Masie Center, a learning and development advisory.

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Conferences can be better, a whole lot better

Jay Cross

Community First! Events should focus on nurturing the L&D community of practice before content. Many Next Practices for conferences (I’ve listed 30) are not difficult to implement. Next Practices for L&D Conferences. Would they go the way of record stores and newspapers? Before the Event. Business is good.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Elliott Masie Learners as designers. Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. When everyone has a mobile device with web access, clearly there are opportunities to provide content in new ways. Learning apps. Video galore.

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. 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.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. 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.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Make it Blended!