" Much thanks goes to Laura Overton for this brilliant idea to help us engage with and provide value to attendees. Element K was delighted to again participate in the Learning Technologies 2011 conference held last recently in London. Now in its 12th year, this event showcased organizational learning and the technology used to support learning at work. We had plenty of traffic at our exhibit stand, and our outstanding Element K team in Europe did a great job keeping up with it. We noted that the conversations this year were generally at a deeper level than the ones in 2010. MORE >>

" In this session, I will be covering numerous "obstacles and objections" to the use of social learning tools in organizations, and provide valuable insights and tips on how to overcome these so you can move forward with the latest tools and approaches in your blended learning programs. Few industry events are scheduled during the holiday season of late December and early January. " For more good tips, see also the recent ASTD blog posting  "How to Make the Most Out of the Expo." It has a content-packed accompanying magazine -- definitely worth a look. MORE >>

As she has done in previous years, she has provided the complete list of results and also created a SlideShare presentation. Hart has analyzed the results further by providing the following three resource pages: Winners and Losers in 2010. In "How to Evaluate e-Learning," Bozarth provides and summarizes the approaches of Kirkpatrick, Brinkerhoff, and Stufflebeam, and urges instructional designers and training practitioners to stop treating evaluation as an afterthought and choose the approach that is most relevant to your specific needs. 2010 Best in Breed List. MORE >>

In this way, such key L&D team members will continue to provide formal learning (whether teaching, designing, or consulting) but will now also provide crucial support in enabling informal learning. As your mix of learning approaches shifts to include more social learning, how are you going to provide the support necessary for it to succeed and truly have a positive impact on the organization? have many thoughts on both the year 2009 that we are wrapping up, and the year 2010 ahead of us (and beyond), so I'll share one such prediction with you now. Web 2.0 MORE >>

By now ASTD has jumped into YouTube in a big way, using their ASTD123 channel to market their events and their broader value proposition for their members, but also as an extension of their main website to provide substantive videos with good content for learning professionals. They also provide plenty of videos from smaller, regional ASTD events, top thought-leaders such as Marshall Goldsmith and others, and much more. In this post I thought I'd do something similar for free video content, going beyond the excellent videos from CommonCraft that I've blogged about here. MORE >>