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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

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. The answer for many organizations will be less training and more performance support in the form of toolkits. Does anyone know or have the numbers?