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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

What I wrote more about in 2010 than past years: Text-to-Speech (8) OCW (3) SharePoint (8) eLearning Strategy (16) eLearning Tools (34) Corporate eLearning (18) Knowledge Worker (8) Authoring Tools (8) Voice (15) Knowledge Work (4) Captivate (11) Adobe Captivate (6) Enterprise 2.0 (6)

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Crowdsourcing in the Small

Tony Karrer

And when I discuss what the new skills are around knowledge work, I quickly arrive a the biggest changes being things like finding expertise , finding answers , using social media to find answers , and learning through conversation. The common threads here are: People Networks To me, the biggest work literacy gap is in this area.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Mayo discovered the Hawthorne Effect, opening the study of motivation. Understanding what type of environment we are working in (Simple, Complicated, Complex or Chaotic) lets us frame our actions. Effective organizations are starting to look more like inverted pyramids. GE started its corporate schools. ASTD is born.

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19 Insider Secrets About Selecting An LMS

Spark Your Interest

Most are proprietary but there are some open-source ones too. A non-profit organization with limited resources decided to use an open-source LMS since there was no cost for the software. They diverted the money they were spending on the ongoing maintenance and hired an instructional designer with LMS knowledge.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

The way organisations work today is almost unrecognisably different from the structured and closely-managed systems in pre-Internet and pre-ubiquitous connectivity times. This means reviewing systems and processes and removing ‘busy work’. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses. L&D departments are not exempt.