Teleplace VW is about cost reduction in travel. Tags: LMS Learning Communities Workplace Learning e-Learning learntrends Live blogged notes from Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations with Charles Jennings & Andy McGovern. My side comments are in italics. MORE

Also need to think about opportunity cost–what are you giving up to spend time on social media? Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends ROI social learning social networks These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. MORE

Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. But all major publications have limitations in that because of the cost, they have to go after large audiences and they need to stay at higher level topics. They can't afford to go into depth in niche areas because the costs would be too high for the return. Total cost: zero. MORE

We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. It makes it possible to develop rich simulations in a fast and cost-effective way. The session was fraught with technical difficulties, so I thought it would be worth capturing a bit about each of the four award winners here. CUDA Business Brain CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia. MORE

This has a dramatic impact on the Business of Learning and perceptions around value and cost. How can you improve performance quickly and at low cost? The LearnTrends Innovation Award Winners 2009 had several very interesting niche tools highlighted. The goal of lower cost will continue the transition from classroom to courseware which will keep the total number of authored minutes about the same, even with the move of content from courses to web pages. MORE

This is a very strange time. While increasing amount of concept work and the pace of change puts a premium on learning, the business of learning faces an incredibly difficult time. In the past few weeks, I've had some really eye-opening conversations about the state of Learning as a Business. It makes me realize that we had really better get moving on thinking about our collective future. There are some important calls to action at the bottom of this post. MORE

Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better. Their underlying economic argument was cost-cutting: less travel, fewer facilities and no more salary expense for instructors. George Siemens, Tony Karrer, and I co-hosted the third annual LearnTrends conference. LearnTrends faculty. * If you are not reflecting, you are not learning. MORE

What is April Learntrends ? Learntrends is a series of online conversations among people with an interest in improving the process of learning in corporations and government. Learntrends welcomes anyone interested in organizational learning. When does Learntrends take place? What does Learntrends cost? Learntrends is free. MORE

That certainly goes along with what we’ve done with LearnTrends and what’s going on with social learning. Fast and Okay Rather Than Slow and Good One of the predictions I made was that we would be creating more, lower cost learning solutions. I recently posted my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 and did a presentation on the topic. You can access a WebEx recording of the presentation here: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=58772167&rKey=9ac6286700094e6f MORE

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. In this post, I would like to list those blogs and websites that provide learning professionals with lot of useful information absolutely free of cost. August was a little quiet in terms of traffic numbers and vacations, but there were some really great posts you may have missed during vacation. I know I did. So here are the top posts based on social signals via eLearning Learning for August 2010. MORE

eLearning is not a big cost-cutter. It’s cheaper: no travel, no facilities cost, no instructor salaries. Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better. Their underlying economic argument was cost-cutting: less travel, fewer facilities and no more salary expense for instructors. Thoughts following April Learntrends. MORE