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Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009

Tony Karrer

In the other, John Smith talks about a workshop that brings social activities into the center of the training experience, investing time in making the social connections a lasting and practical resource. He's the host of com-prac, the longest-running conversation about communities of practice on the 'Net.

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The Challenges of Executive Education

Training Industry

My role is to offer short certificate programs to companies. These challenges include the transformation of the traditional learning model, the need to be agile and the existence of communities of practice. Aurélia Le Roy is the open/certificate programs director at HEC Executive Education.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Branon Learning Management System App Stores Bob Little Apps, Not Courses Inge de Waard Augmented reality moves towards augmented learning with easy tools: Wikitude , Layar , ARToolKit. Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality.

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PDR Design Model Supports Shift to Learning Design in the Work Context

Living in Learning

In the Deploy phase, they are in a hotel room enjoying a distance-learning event after hours while colleagues at Corporate are in a physical classroom with the instructor. What is optimal size of the learning objects? We cannot stream a 15-minute program to a sales rep in front of a client.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Cheating in Online Courses - eLearning Acupuncture , April 28, 2010 A recent study in the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration (Spring 2010) by George Watson and James Sottile at Marshall University in West Virginia, provides some interesting insight into cheating at the post secondary level.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. Some of the certificate programs conducted before conferences strike me as low-grade diploma mills.