The eLearning Guild ‘s DevLearn was a blast, as always.  On Wed I depart to La Jolla to attend WCET’s conference , where I’ll be talking on mobile learning.  If you’re interested in working smarter and the future of organizational learning, and you’re in Europe, you should try to hit one. Further ahead, I’ll be at Sydney for the Australasian Talent Conference in May, and Wisconsin for the the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in August.  Exciting times ahead. If you attend, make sure to say hi! MORE >>

She went onto talk about approaches that may be useful to bring the focus back to the workplace, where most learning happens. What did I learn? training doesn't address the entire value stream and looks at localised optimisations training is a cost based exercise that traditionally doesn't focus on workpplace performance whereas we should be investing in learning which is geared at solving challenges in the workplace Kim talked about creating "Learning Wells and not Training Dams" : drive what people need via their experience levels. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. MORE >>

conference organizational learning devlearn collaboration training learning google wave elearningThis afternoon I sat through Adam Mash's (? think that's his name) session on Google Wave. Being a Google Wave tester, nothing that he said was new for me except he highlighted a few things worth reiterating. You can explictly choose to follow public waves. Wave is an open protocol, so it is possible to create custom clients to interact with Wave. It is not possible to remove people from a wave, yet. Support for mailing lists and groups isn't great yet. MORE >>

clever use of Google Code Labs : Leverage fellow software developers to learn a programming language. Use Google Code labs to provide code snippets to learn practical styles and patterns of programming. conference organizational learning devlearn training learning elearningThe last session I attended today was by Julia Bulkowski and Erika Grouell from Google about how they're leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to help drive performance in their company. Again, nothing new given that Google's products are all free for public use. adoption succeed. MORE >>

The last session from DevLearn 2009 that I sat through was the one by David Mallon from Bersin & Associates, called "The Changing Learning Function: Rethinking how your organization works". David was presenting empirical evidence from 798 Organisations and 40,000 training and HR business leaders and using Bersin's analysis about what the new face of the learning organisation should be like. Learning professionals have the ability to create the context and the standards that organisations really need. Embedded Learning: All the ways that we learn inside work. MORE >>