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LearnX Asia Pacific 2009 - Day 2

E-Learning Provocateur

His point is: if you aren’t interacting with other people through media such as mailing lists, blogs, Twitter, discussion forums etc, then you are not developing professionally and you will eventually stagnate. In fact, Stephen considers it so important, he elegantly expresses it as: “Interaction is breathing for the brain&#.

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

The second half of the prediction “self directed learning” got less attention during the year than I anticipated, but it was there and certainly was a big part of the discussion around social and informal learning. We've seen some traction by the game show type tools such as those by LearningWare. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0