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LearnTrends 2009 – Free Online Conference

Tony Karrer

George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer are pleased to announce our third annual free online conference: LearnTrends 2009 The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. And every year I learn a lot.

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eLearning Technology and LearnTrends Nominated

Tony Karrer

I’m happy to say there were several nominations for this blog and for LearnTrends. If you’ve found value from this blog and/or LearnTrends, please click on the links below and vote for them in their categories. The EduBlog Awards are happening again this year. There are a lot of great nominees in all of the categories.

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Learning Community, Peers and Outside Experts

Tony Karrer

While strife with technical challenges, Nancy White and John Smith’s presentation at LearnTrends 2009 ( LearnTrends 2009 Recordings ) provided some really interesting food for thought. In some ways this relates closely to the post on Selling Learning Communities.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Free learning can come from groups like Work Literacy that provided a large online learning experience for free, or from LearnTrends that produces amazing content like LearnTrends 2009 for free. Free Learning may not be as high a quality – although I would claim that LearnTrends and WorkLiteracy filled niches.

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Selling Learning Communities – Not Everyone Will or Wants a Group Hug

Tony Karrer

Jack Merklein from Xerox Global Services did a really great presentation at LearnTrends 2009 entitled - Common tools for Diverse Communities at Xerox Global Services. You can find the LearnTrends 2009 Recording including Jack’s presentation. A few follow-up thoughts.

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Innovation Awards 2009

Tony Karrer

We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. It provides a blend of learning management and performance support. They provide automated content distribution capability. Learnosity Learnosity provide a set of tools to help in the assessment, teaching and learning of spoken language skills.

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2.0 and Interesting Times

Tony Karrer

Interesting post by Dan Pontefract where he provides definitions of some different "2.0" The theme of LearnTrends 2009 is a term I call Convergence. This means: providing solutions beyond traditional training / courses working closely with other parts of the organization including Enterprise 2.0, is the use of Web 2.0