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Online training or elearning is already becoming the ‘norm’ with which to educate staff. Not only does it offer new training opportunities for individuals, businesses and organisations that previously would not have existed, it also brings about a whole range of benefits and advantages over traditional classroom or handbook-based training. One of the major benefits of elearning is that the user or staff member can complete the training at any time, from any location in the world, so long as there is access to the internet. This can only be a positive move towards a paperless office! MORE >>

Last week I moderated an event on Web 2.0 where we had speakers from IBM, Google, Microsoft, Sony and others talking about what it really means (especially for corporations). One of the most interesting things was the Enterprise Mashup demonstration by Rod Smith at IBM. He basically showed how a business-user would be able to wire together an application. This is very similar to what I discussed back in March - Promise of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 - Comparison to Macros, IDEs, and Visual Basic. Now, you have a chance to play around with this kind of thing yourself. MORE >>

Every week or so I hear about a company looking to Second Life as a teaching environment. First, I have to say that Second Life is a great Web 2.0/massively multiplayer environment. respect the ability of people to make money in Second Life. respect the ability of people to "hang" in Second Life. think it is great that companies are prototyping visual and structural designs in Second Life. suggest everyone listen to the Business Week podcast. Having said all of that, Second Life, as is, is not a teaching tool. It is content free. Will magic sometimes happen? Not so good after all." MORE >>

well, we certainly struck a chord with this week's webinar on blended learning. we had our most subscribed event ever, as 90 people were on line trying to find ideas to solve their own blended learning puzzles MORE >>