Reflections of a learning consultant. Learning Consultant, and how I was convinced that social learning approaches. title from E-Learning Consultant to Social Media & Learning Consultant. . Update: In fact I have now gone a step further and now call myself a Social. Learning Consultant. Guide to Social Learning. began to convert my Guide to E-Learning into the Guide to Social Learning. . up to developments in this fast moving area of learning. as a "social learning space". MORE >>

It's time for another edition of the Learning and Development Roundup! See also previous editions at the archive page.)   Videos from recent L&D Industry Conferences Did you miss some or all of the major conferences in the Learning and Development industry in the month of November? Well, the good news is that a few of these have made some video content available for free: Elliott Masie's Learning 2009 - Provided are videos of many of the "keynote" sessions. " LearnTrends - Provided are nearly 20 videos from this online "virtual conference." MORE >>

After the LearnTrends conferences , I wait six weeks until I send out the evals. The new face of learning was made of our faces. Mark Oehlert ran Social Media Camp on Wednesday and in true Web 2.0 was delighted to find my Belgian friend Inge de Waart at the Mobile Learning Camp. They’re into talent management, social learning, or anything besides what they really do. Learning is becoming DIY (do-it-yourself) by the moment. The social learning revolution is here. Tags: Informal Learning inttime Get it? MORE >>

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. Instead, we will call this "self-directed learning" and will do our best to support the workforce to learn it on their own with minimal guidance and support. But the reality was more than that as I explored in posts like Business of Learning and Models for Learning Questions. Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0 MORE >>

I respond, 'well I'm becoming more and more interested in the use of social media and microblogging for learning', I then get puzzled looks that say, "too much time on your hands", "what is he talking about?" For me though I see a real role for social media as a platform for business learning. Social media - fad or forever? did however miss the first wave of social media on the net, there are many who have written blogs for 5-10 years and are a great deal more connected than I am and are across everything web2.0. Content. MORE >>