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A Best Practice in “Xtreme Learner Engagement?”

Speed-writing seems to have the same psychology behind it as an old attention-focusing trick used by some presenters and sales people.  For example, if you are talking with someone, and then that person picks up a pen, looks down at a document that he or she is showing you, your eyes and attention will be drawn to the movement of…

A Tin-Can Caution: Technology Alone Is Not the Answer

Tin-Can API (to be called “Experience API”) is infusing itself into the learning industry and seemingly spreading like wildfire.  To date, there are 32 big name adopters, from assessment systems to authoring tools, incorporating Tin-Can into their offerings. The flag bearers, Rustici Software, have been on their soapbox since being commissioned by Advanced Distributed Learning to develop the next generation…

Links to Top 72 Product Finalists in Best of ELearning! Awards

The Reader’s Choice Awards for the 2012 “Best of Elearning! Awards” are listed below, along with links to each company’s website.  As this is a pretty large list of vendors, I thought it would help as a quick index to top learning and e-learning tools if I provided you with the links.   You’ll see everything from LMS/TMS’s to content,…

Meet Me at the Water Cooler

Hopefully this will be an “ahha moment” for you, as it was for me.   Here’s the question that led me on this quest for a valid (ROI) justification:  “Why would you want to invest in a social learning network for your enterprise?” There are two primary statistics that stand out for me when I think about behavior in the workplace. …

Taking Social Learning to the Next Level by Marcello Hunter

Taking Social Learning to the Next Level submitted & written by guest blogger and Enterprise Learning! Summit speaker Marcello Hunter Today, the technology industry is challenged with delivering talent development, training and certifications to evolve the current workforce to meet the demands of tomorrow and to shrink the global technology skills gap. As sophistication of the network increases, the skill…

5 Things You Must Do at a Learning (Or Almost Any) Conference

I had the pleasure of attending Training 2012 last week in Atlanta, GA. It was great to see such an event come to my own home city (and it made for easy travel arrangements as well).  The event was held and the expansive Georgia World Congress Center which I’ve visited numerous times for many events from concerts and conferences to…