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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

The second half of the prediction “self directed learning” got less attention during the year than I anticipated, but it was there and certainly was a big part of the discussion around social and informal learning. The LearnTrends Innovation Award Winners 2009 had several very interesting niche tools highlighted.

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Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Hot Topic #2 - Social Media , Social Networks , Social Learning , and Informal Learning. Social media, social networks, communities for learning both formal and informal is bigger than I think we can even imagine at this point. You can lead them to social media, but can you make them drink?

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Top Posts from August - Augmented Reality - Social Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. 10 Social Media Rebuttals - Learnlets , August 8, 2010 Jane Hart begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting posted a tongue-in-cheek video by Ron Desi of 10 reasons why you should not have social media in the organization, and is collecting rebuttals.

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Reflections on DevLearn 2010

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

After the LearnTrends conferences , I wait six weeks until I send out the evals. Mark Oehlert ran Social Media Camp on Wednesday and in true Web 2.0 It’s an opportunity to see real programs, not vendor demos. It takes a while for the important lessons to emerge. The new face of learning was made of our faces.