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How would you design learning with an unlimited budget?

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Recently I was given what many instructional designers would consider the best brief ever: there’s unlimited budget, there’s no major urgency, just come up with something innovative and interesting. After the shock had worn off, I felt a mix of elation and fear.

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Are confidentiality concerns holding back the e-learning industry?

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Judging by how much e-learning seems to be borrowing from web design it seems that e-learning has fallen behind in terms of innovation. The exchange of ideas between e-learning and web design diminished as the e-learning industry sought to distance its public perception from the failed dotcoms. Rating systems (e.g.

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Sustaining a learning community: top down or bottom up?

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Refreshingly, nobody was talking about the technology – we’ve already got to the stage in the innovation curve where the techology is easy and cheap to access – the focus is (as it should be) on the people using the technology and the content they are interacting with. Are moderators required?

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Judging the e-learning awards

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The flipside is that innovations appear to be being made in smaller steps rather than radical changes occurring. I’m pleased that the e-learning industry is maturing and that as a learning channel, e-learning is continuing to build wider credibility and acceptance.

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Advanced personal learning? Can we get solar power instead?

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Meanwhile some of the more innovative L&D functions are seeing themselves more as provides of methodology and skills rather than publishers of content. There’s exciting changes in the sphere of Web 2.0 which appear to be empowering learners to get more personalized learning.