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Friday, September 3, 2010
If you’ve ever called a meeting to discuss the status of Course X or met with your team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) you can probably relate to a few of the issues mentioned above. This is a blog mini-series that I’m writing for Mindflash about applying 37signals’ principles to online training. Why are meetings toxic?
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Third and final post of the series on creating successful m-learning strategy, based on the mLearnCon workshop, this post discusses about the tools and techniques used for developing mLearning courses. Creating Successful m-Learning Strategy – Part 3. Upside Blog iPhone App Is Here– Download Today. Work Is Changing; Is Training Changing Too?
 
Friday, August 27, 2010
This included models and tools that are related to PD and education, and a PD Council newsletter that is dedicated to PD issues of associations, which are provided at no cost to members if they sign up for it. More on that later though…. Saturday began with an all day Professional Development (PD) Council meeting. I was running on empty.
 

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You may be interested in a podcast produced a few months ago by IT Training magazine in which Paul Stevens of Assima UK and myself discuss a variety of issues relating to the design of e-learning content. You can download it from the IT Training podcast page - it's episode 9
I've been involved with several different groups of people who are having different kinds of discussions that happen among bloggers. Discussion Group Hub - questions/topics are raised via the discussion group and can go out into the blog world to get a more diverse audience - which is now happening with a group such as LinkedIn Bloggers.
What is the most important issue in e-learning? There are, it seems quite a lot of issues, judging from the responses I received. Here's a brief summary of the responses: There were some technical and design issues: Jedd Bartlett in New Zealand, says that the most important issue is to ensure availability of real broadband in the home.
Whilst re-iterating these benefits this article will discuss and offer a solution to the task of managing social bookmarking learning activities. The specifics of various teaching and learning tasks are for another time, the focus of this article centres around two main issues; 1) Task management and 2) A single account strategy.
Great questions, great crowd, no big tech issues. Description: Overview of this important immersive environment, discuss its advantages and disadvantages for corporate training, and show examples. Tags: multigenerational learning generational differences Brandon Hall Instructional Design generational issues Bibliography (below).
There's some great discussion happening around the issues of control and resulting ownership of work product as we create personal work learning environments. Enterprises that love PLE's Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning corrupt?
recently had a great conversation with Becky Barch, a performance consultant at the Bank, about her smart application of discussion forum software from ElementK. Becky turned around and used a discussion forum to make the situation better. They are now using the discussion forum as part of training initiatives. Jong had done.
This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments for a bit of recap. Andy Roberts posts - More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments where he juxtaposes Jay Cross's comments : Pitting individuals against corporations is not productive. Just do it.
Here is a video from CNN that discusses "race" and learning. Obviously, this is a very sensitive topic, but one take away is that the emphasis is unfortunately put on "race" and "learning styles" when it should be put on the individual.
This relates closely to the discussion going on around blogs, discussion forums, communities, etc.: eLearning Discussions - An Attempt at Better Discussions in the Blogosphere Move from Discussion Groups to World of Blogs? Discussion Groups or Mis-Understanding Blog Reading and. Blogs vs.