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Are We Approaching Collaborative eLearning Wrong? - The Individual is the New Group

Tony Karrer

But, he also linked to a great post: The Individual is the New Group - where he points out that the classic notion of groupware has been falling out of favor and instead the concept of soloware with extension for collaboration (think blog vs. discussion group) is gaining adoption.

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Computer-Based Training: Definition, Benefits and Cost

Epilogue Systems

CBT is a type of eLearning that delivers learning content and exercises over the Internet or through a company’s local area network. Computer-based training (CBT) is a type of eLearning that uses computers to deliver instructional content. Keep going! What is Computer-Based Training (CBT)? To conclude.

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The Power of Peer Production

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Instead of forcing people into predetermined groups like groupware does, social software facilitates the natural formation of groups based on spontaneous, contextual needs for interaction. Affiliation through personal choice: "Peer production is the most efficient method for creating value from a resource allocation point of view.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

Extreme swings toward technology and institutions were Taylor’s Scientific Management, robber barons, Business Process Reengineering, and narrowly-defined eLearning (removing all the people to make it work.) Jay’s first eLearning Talk. From top-down control to bottom-up.

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Co-creation

Jay Cross

“Learner-centric&# has been the rallying cry of eLearning for five years now. Last year, in an informal history of eLearning , I wrote: Learning isn’t content. eLearning came along at the right time to embrace the learner-centric view. The “Community&# topic turned out to cover many potential topics: collaboration.