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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

This month's LCBQ is What are your Predictions and Plans for 2011? Tony Bates - eLearning Outlook for 2011 1. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning. The Future is Mobile 3.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

It’s a great way to experience a situation without having to actually live it firsthand, and learners tend to retain this information. Ugly: The Information Dump. The dreaded information dump is all too common and should be avoided at all costs. Our brains have been wired over the last 2,500 years to learn through stories.

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Top 50 Posts on Working Smarter for May 2011

Jay Cross

May 1, 2011 to May 31, 2011. List of the top 100 Twitter influencers in Australia - Ross Dawson , May 31, 2011. CERT and performance support - Clark Quinn , May 31, 2011. Monday Video – Doodling - Nancy White , May 31, 2011. MoveOn Co-Founder Talks Social Networking - Jay Cross , May 31, 2011.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform. I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites. Top eLearning Sites? Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

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“Brain Freeze: Does your eLearning System Cause Learning Paralysis?”

Vignettes Learning

However, the influx of information to an individual’s brain may prove to be debilitating to one’s decision making process or may result to learning paralysis for learners. Dimoka explains that in bidding wars that resemble eBay, the more information the person receives, the less likely he/she makes good decisions.

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eLearning Startup Opportunities

Tony Karrer

I'm very much looking forward to hearing from the speakers and panelists, but I thought I would use this as an opportunity to both respond to this month's #LCBQ ( 2011 Predictions ) and to prepare for the session. More broadly, addressing the issue of information overload for particular audiences is going to provide big time opportunity.

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Three steps to compliance greatness | Good To Great

Good To Great

Group job roles into risk categories or use a pre-test to identify gaps in knowledge, then point each user to what they specifically need to know (information overload = disengaged learners).