From the standpoint of a magazine that’s always talking and writing about the latest trends in corporate learning/training, it came as a bit of a surprise to us when we tallied the results of this year’s survey of readers. You would think that social learning (of which mobile learning or m-learning is a part) would be the number one choice…

Categories: Business, e-learning, Government, Jerry Roche, Learning Technologies, Learning! 100 Award, Management, Mobile, Social, Social Learning Networks, Strategy, Talent Management

Dr. Beverly Kaye, founder and co-CEO of Career Systems International, thinks that career development is a powerful and under-utilized lever to motivate employees. She does not believe that IQ alone is a driver in individual success. In that regard, she’s not alone among learning professionals. But she does clarify in a unique way: “It’s FQ (fluidity quotient) and AQ (adversity…

Categories: Business, Jerry Roche, Management, Strategy, Talent Management

There is no question that telework (working at home using cutting-edge communications technology) and e-learning are symbiotic. E-learning makes telework more effective; telework supports e-learning initiatives for a geographically dispersed audience. So earlier this week, an edict by CEO Marissa Mayer that orders all her Yahoo employees back into the office on a regular basis took the business and technology…

Categories: Business, Collaboration, e-learning, Government, Jerry Roche, Management, News, Strategy, Talent Management

For some e-learning applications, micro-learning is fast catching on, particularly in the corporate world. Simply put, it’s learning in small steps—which is not only compatible but symbiotic with traditional e-learning. “It’s when companies create narrow groups of courses or topics, like teaching about copyright protection instead of business law, or covering a subject for a limited time, or using only…

Categories: Business, Collaboration, Content, e-learning, Edge Technology, Jerry Roche, Learning Technologies, Mobile, Social, Social Learning Networks, Strategy, Tools

“Crowdsourcing” is the e-learning community’s new in-vogue term. In actuality, it’s been “in vogue” for quite a few years, but it’s gone by other, less specific, names: social learning or collective intelligence. Daren C. Brabham was the first to define “crowdsourcing” in the scientific publication Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Feb. 1, 2008): “Crowdsourcing is…

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We’d like you to add to the list! In the spirit of the holidays, we asked Elearning! and Government Elearning! staff members what kind of learning-related gifts they would like.  After the lists were narrowed down to remove Ferrari’s, tropical winter vacations and gold bullion (re: podcast player, learning environment, and paper weight, respectively), the following bubbled to the top…

Categories: Catherine Upton, Jerry Roche, Joe DiDonato | Tags: ELCE > Elearning > instructional design > Joe DiDonato > learning > learning strategy > Learning! 100 > LMS > Social Gaming > social learning > TMS