Less Trainers; More Community Managers and Curators

Less Trainers; More Community Managers and Curators

This is an excerpt from Sharon Boller’s newest white paper, Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today’s learning landscape… then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 – 18 months. Here is Trend 7: Lots of us are already curating … Continue reading

Less Formal Training; More Informal Social Learning

Less Formal Training; More Informal Social Learning

This is an excerpt from Sharon Boller’s newest white paper, Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today’s learning landscape… then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 – 18 months. Here is Trend 6: Twitter chats, Twitter lists, massive open … Continue reading

Less PPT Only; More Cool Interactive Tools Within Lectures

Less PPT Only; More Cool Interactive Tools Within Lectures

This is an excerpt from Sharon Boller’s newest white paper, Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today’s learning landscape… then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 – 18 months. Here is Trend 5: This trend loosely goes with the … Continue reading

Less Focus on the LMS; More Focus on Tin Can API

Less Focus on the LMS; More Focus on Tin Can API

This is an excerpt from Sharon Boller’s newest white paper, Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today’s learning landscape… then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 – 18 months. Here is Trend 3: Over the last decade the learning … Continue reading

#DevLearn Edition of #TalkTech: Big Changes for Apple, MOOCs in Education and Jon Landau’s Presentation at DevLearn

Browett and Forstall are leaving Apple.

#TalkTech is the “flipped” approach to Twitter chats. We publish all the topics a few hours before the chat so you can show up at 3 pm EST / 12 pm PST on Thursdays ready to discuss. The bosses are … Continue reading

What Coursera can teach corporations about doing learning differently

What Coursera can teach corporations about doing learning differently

One of the emerging trends in the training and development field is the shift from “trainer” to “community manager.” Jane Hart does a magnificent job of distinguishing between more traditional views of training (We’ll figure out what content you need, … Continue reading