Demos have released this new report which looks at the importance of social networking in organisations. This report argues that we have to look equally at Here is a brief overview: "Humans are social animals, spinning intricate webs of of relationships with friends, colleagues, neighbours and enemies. These

has released a research report on the use of online social networking by students, titled Creating and Connecting (caution: it’s a pdf file). While some of the findings are not surprising, some others are. Here’s a quick take on some of the findings. Overall, an astonishing 96 percent of students with online access report that they ever used any social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visiting online communities… Staggering as the 96 percent statistic is, it is intriguing to wonder what the other 4 percent is doing. The National School Boards Association in the U.S.

"The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years. "The The 2010 Horizon Report is the seventh in the series and is produced as part of an ongoing collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program. "In In each edition of the Horizon Report, six emerging technologies or practices are described that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years.

Forrester released a report today about the 'community platforms' market. We summarize the report below and highlight our own past coverage of Jive Software and Telligent. The Forrester report, authored by Jeremiah Owyang , notes that even in this down economy there is still demand for online community platforms - because they are a cost-effective way for companies to market their products and reduce support costs. They evaluated nine vendors, concluding that Jive Software and Telligent Systems "lead the pack because of their strong administrative and platform features."

As you may have noticed, the situation has moved on a bit (as Jay Cross reports, "... can foresee training departments being eliminated almost completely"),so it's probably now appropriate to upgrade my update to a 'recession report'. Figures showing the true extent of the damage are just starting to come through. Research by MTD Training , reported in e.learning age magazine shows that 61% of organisations are experiencing budget cuts and 42% of respondents are concerned Back in August, I posted my Downturn Detail . the magnitude of the financial meltdown

The Educause Horizon Report for 2009 has just been published. With its 36 pages it is a great report to read. For more details see the full report ...Tags: Tags: mobile smart objects semantic cloud computing repor It makes predictions about the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on education. This year's predictions are: mobile devices, cloud computing, geo-everything, the personal web, semantic-aware applications, and smart objects (always linked with examples).

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project in collaboration with Educause, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education. You can download the report here . The nice thing about this report is that it focuses on emerging technologies, but that it also puts a time frame on it (time to adoption one, three, up to five years). There is a focus on mobile computing and

in this report issued by the European Commission, she focuses on two studies that were undertaken to look at the potential of learning2.0. The report is 122 pages long , written with great clarity. The report covers a lot of ground and gives a clear insight in benefits of eLearning2.0. If you are interested in eLearning and Learning2.0 in particular, this study on the impact of Web2.0

Moodle does a lot of things great, but site wide reporting and bulk user management are definitely not included in those great things. If you are a Moodle administrator for an organization I am sure you know the pain of having to go into each course site to produce grade reports for multiple courses. In my case, I have to send out a weekly report listing every users grades in every course they have taken on Moodle. This means I have to go into each course site and export a grade report to an excel spreadsheet and then merge all of those separate spreadsheets into one big grade report.

This post is probably long overdue, but the use of the data from the guild has been a really great resource and has lead to posts such as: Flash Quiz Tools LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) LMS Team Size and Time I personally get the most value by having direct data access to the reports. That way I can slice and dice the reports as I need. In my last post on Flash Quiz Tools , I mentioned how I had used the eLearning Guild Research to streamline my effort of find the right tools.