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Learntrends: Convergence in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Thomson Reuters Learning Methods–both formal and informal. “Information finds us&#. Training was about finding the information you needed to do your job. Diigo and other tools change your relationship to informationinformation increasingly finds us rather than us having to find it.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Smell of Books

Learning Visions

John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid have written of the so-called “social life of information&# —the form in which you encounter a text can have a huge impact on how you use it. and diigo for example. Imagine if Martin Luther or John Adams had used diigo. And yet we will still need our libraries and archives.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: DIY vs. Formal Learning

Learning Visions

Harold Jarche says, The future of learning is DIY : This is the power of informal learning, if organisations decide to enable it. Brent Schenkler has been on a soapbox recently, talking about the death of ISD in the wake of informal learning. In small companies, DIY/informal learning is pretty much all you got.