34;  On a similar topic, Ellen Wagner wrote two good postings this past month: "On eLearning, ID, and Learning Technologies" and "Why It Matters What They Call Us." New Roles in Learning and Development And speaking of job roles in our industry, Jay Cross continued sharing his provocative thoughts in his June column in Chief Learning Officer magazine: "More Human Than Human.... Economics dictate that traditional instruction will play a diminishing role in corporate learning.

Spies, Twitter and gardening: social media meets learning - Donald H Taylor in Corporate Training If the US intelligence services - notorious for keeping a tight grip on information - have been convinced that sharing information more widely is a good idea, why is that, and what does it have to do with learning? The answer is that sharing information is one of the ways in which we learn naturally, possible the most natural way of learning we have.... Do they have an answer? Do they know someone else who does? Have they met similar problems before?

8221; Last month I opened the IADIS eLearning 2009 Conference in Portugal with an address on Redefining Instructional Design. Here is how I described some of the roles learning professionals will need to fill in our brave new world: This is not entirely original.... An active community of practice is a different animal from a bottom-up knowledge management network or a corporate news channel. New communities have different requirements than old.