In keeping up with our trend this week of offering newly available and FREE resources to help keep you informed and up-to-date on learning and elearning, we offer you this link to the Masie Center’s open source e-book, “Learning Perspectives,&# with contributions by “40 Global Learning Leaders.&#. Many thanks to the MASIE Center for providing this great book! If you’re curious about the four key elements of training within the Central Intelligence Agency, for example, this is your resource. MORE >>

The MASIE Center has released the summary results of a 69-question survey conducted earlier this year on Learning Management Systems. There were 199 responses received, and as Elliott notes, "The data provides interesting insight into how the world of Learning Systems is evolving." The survey participants were from the Learning CONSORTIUM and from their Learning Systems Roundtable held in mid-April. Question 9). 66% indicated that if they had the resources, they would replace their current Learning System. 50% indicated they were implementing Web 2.0 tools. 22, 23). MORE >>

Elliott Masie’s Learning Consortium defines mobile learning quite broadly: “We define mobile learning… as all ‘knowledge in the hand.’ Provide Access to performance support/knowledge”. But instead of focusing on the technology (and its perceived limits), we in the learning community should think about the huge potential of mobile learning to engage the user, and provide “just in time” content in manageable, “bite-sized” packages. Mobile learning seems to be creating a lot of excitement in the learning community these days. million in 2010. billion by 2015. Techno-centric! MORE >>

Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, videos etc on any topic, and add a voice narrative which provides context, emotion and consistency. It provides you 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or only a selection. Elliott Masie. Masie Center. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Friday, October 31. Free Screencasting Tools For Tony! Free Screencasting Tools List (Updated) Tony Karrers blog "Toast! You name it, they record it!" ".Im dont do it very often, so it needs to be free. And then. at 16:15. MORE >>

Here are The Masie Center’s predictions for adaption and development pathways that major organizations will take in the next 36 months as experimentation with mobile learning expands: Device readiness: The first step will be to make current and new content device-ready. For example, a video can be posted to a cloud server that will provide a format appropriate to the browser and device requesting it. • Proximity connections : The device could sense and provide collaboration and content handling with other learners in the same location. This isn’t true. MORE >>