Originally posted to T+D Magazine, January 2011 Edition. Now is the time for learning professionals to embrace social learning as an emerging and engaging way to enhance an organization’s learning strategy. Budget cuts, staff reductions, travel embargos, and facility consolidation have left many chief learning officers and learning professionals clamoring for the emergency brake. Add to this the rising inferno (and demand) of social media, informal learning, and anything to do with a 2.0 Enter social learning. original link here ). MORE >>

Check out this article from Chief Learning Officer magazine from Brandon Hall Research featuring five systems that do just that: [link]. BTW, if you’re not subscribing to CLO, maybe you should… it’s free and though the focus is on corporate learning executives, there’s a lot here that can keep you ahead of the game in the non-profit education sector. Tags: LMS Social Learning aLearning Strategies eLearning Resources Brandon Hall Chief Learning Officer e-learning elearning strategy resources social networking Happy reading! MORE >>

As a result of this wonderful learning conversation (comments) and exploration (adventure), we have discovered several more free screencasting tools, which are: Screencast-O-Matic Is a Java-based application that anyone can use to create screencasts of their screen with no additional software to download. The irony of this whole learning adventure is that their post was published a few days earlier than mine (27nd October, 2008) , meaning if I had found it earlier, it would have saved me. In short, learning and discovering together and apart makes a screencasting lot of sense :). MORE >>

Let me introduce you to 3D GameLab , arguably an actual example demonstrating the evolution of today’s antiquated learning management system. The brainchild of Lisa Dawley and Chris Haskell , 3D GameLab is an online game-based learning environment facilitated by what are known as quests. Quests are individual learning components such as short videos, diagrams, activities, text, audio, etc., that (when combined together) can make up the learning requirements of a traditional class. Is learning only found in an LMS or classroom? What are quests, you ask? MORE >>

Royal Dutch Shell, the fifth largest company in the world and a long-term player (Shell’s more than a hundred years old), has been learning from scenarios for forty years. At Online Educa Berlin in late 2011, Shell’s Hans de Zwart and Willem Manders led a scenario planning process to address these issues: How do different global and national trends shape the future of corporate learning? What opportunities and challenges does this create for corporate learning organizations? Informal learning thrives here. Get your mobile learning strategy together. MORE >>