DevLearn is coming up. But, as a reader of this blog, you should drop a comment if you are going to DevLearn and I'll try to let you know when we are getting together. In the past, this has been quite a bit of fun (see DevLearn - Beer - Who's In? - Looking forward to seeing folks at DevLearn. I just took a quick look on the eLearningGuild site and DevLearnis looking good again this year. My guess is that I'll be getting together with a few folks there to have a drink and discuss things like eLearning 2.0 (yeah, we know how to have fun).

In case you’re not getting enough DevLearn 2008 coverage, here’s a list of awesome bloggers who are writing about their experiences here in San Jose: Jay Cross (also here) Brian Dusablon Josh Goldman

Notes from Sir Ken Robinson's keynote talk at DevLearn... I've seen Ken on his Ted talk which I've embedded below: His talk was quite entertaining and followed somewhat his talk from Ted. A few of the thoughts or points from his talk: $3.5B spent in California on state school system - $9B spent on prison system Creativity can be facilitated and supported to foster

Tags: multimedia devlearn training learning graphics ruth clark elearnin The first concurrent session that I attended this morning was Ruth Clark 's talk about Evidence based Training. Ruth talked about moving from fads and fiction to facts about the use of multimedia in training and education. Ruth as usual was her confident, articulate self and displayed some wonderful research and evidence that

Day 1 of DevLearn 2008 kicked off today with a great keynote from Tim O’Reilly ( @TimOReilly ), where he walked us through the Web 2.0 movement and how it has impacted learning and training. Here are some of the notes I took during his keynote: We should always try to follow the “alpha-geeks.”

Below are the slides from my presentation at DevLearn 2009. Tags: eLearning Conferences Design Development DevLearn DevLearn2009 dl09 Learning qualcomm technology Tools Training Web 2.0 I co-presented this session along with my colleague, John Polaschek . The presentation had two main areas of focus:

If you are planning to attend DevLearn in October, and really even if you aren't but want to figure out what questions you really have , I would highly encourage you to TAKE ACTION by thinking through the questions you have about eLearning and CONTRIBUTING YOUR QUESTIONS AT THE END OF THIS POST . Most people who attend eLearning conferences (such as DevLearn) have been working in the field for quite a while. As way of introduction to this topic, let me start with a typical scenario that you will recognize if you've ever attended a professional conference... It's noon and

Andy McAfee gave us a lively and informative presentation on his view of Enterprise 2.0.  Punctuated by insightful examples, he defined Enterprise 2.0 as “”use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals”, and characterized it more simply as ‘bringing web energy into organizations’. Along

Today was my second day at DevLearn 2009 and I must say its been a great investment this far. Tags: conference devlearn scenario based learning training learning adult learnin If not for anything else, its been a great opportunity to meet a lot of great learning professionals not just from the United States, but from all across the world. The ideas and thoughts that we've shared will be of great value to my work back in Bangalore, India.