One of the new skills that teachers will need to master in the future will be the ability to manage virtual learning spaces. Learning always takes place in the mind of the learner, but the formalised activities of learning have never been confined to the classroom. The use of web based resources and networked computers enable students to enter worlds previously inaccessible, allowing them to explore within that imagined world we call 'cyberspace'. They are bounded by walls, rules and conventions. Creative and disruptive educators can think of much better ways to represent learning spaces. MORE >>

This post was inspired by Kevin Thorn's ( LearnNuggets ) guest post at eLearning Weekly titled Top 5 eLearning Skills for 2011 and the Follow up post. Kevin's take on eLearning skills has sparked a little debate and started a healthy conversation around several topics including social media. Here is Kevin's take on SoMe as a top skill for 2011: Social Media – As we all know social media is no longer a trend and is becoming the main stream of communicating. don’t think SoMe is a skill so much as it is a practice. You gain knowledge of how SoMe works by the mere fact of being embedded in it. MORE >>

2011 seems to be really big on events for us. After a huge success at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011, April will see us participating in CIPD HRD 2011 , an HRD conference and exhibition. Scheduled to take place on the 6th and 7th of April 2011 in Olympia, London , this event will see leading learning and organization development suppliers in a range of disciplines including training, L&D, OD, leadership, coaching and more, come together under one roof. We’ll also be sharing practical ideas on building a strong training function in organizations. And we bet you wouldn’t want to miss it. MORE >>

I’ve being busy making presentations lately and learning more about communicating the business value of implementing a social media strategy and infrastructure. Below is my most current Call to Action flyer. Contact me today to start building your social media strategy and infrastructure. Like many non-profit leaders, you no doubt understand that social media is important for your organization. However, you probably have questions about how best to use social media in your workplace: How do we use social media to innovate, collaborate, and become more efficient? MORE >>

Vish and I conducted a training session yesterday on Adding Interactivity to eLearning Courses with Adobe Captivate 5, where we demonstrated how to add interactive and noninteractive objects to eLearning courses. We displayed a completed course to the attendees and then went on to create it from scratch, where we were picking content from the [.]. eLearning this week Extending Captivate Rapid Authoring Adobe Captivate 5 Adobe eLearning Suite 2 Storyboard Template MORE >>