If you are still fighting with…sorry…encouraging your peers or your company’s senior executives to embrace mobile learning, then more ammunition just arrived. The Annual Meeker Report is here and it is filled with all the technology trends you n…
Charting a Course for Informal Learning
May 31, 2012 By
The era of personal learning is upon us. With more and more learners taking control of their own learning experience, employees are essentially turning into digital pirates, charting their own course through the vast sea of informal learning. When emp…
Cell Phone is 5th Most Ubiquitous Possession
May 30, 2012 By
I was trolling through G+ (I know, I know, who actually hangs out there, right?) and saw this post from noted Futurist and Senior Maverick at WIRED Magazine, Kevin Kelly. In the first paragraph he writes this…
The most ubiquitous technological posse…
The Future of Undergraduate Teaching
May 29, 2012 By
May 29, 2012, 1:44 pm By Nigel Thrift CHRONICLE OF EDUCATION Many a university president has felt a frisson on reading the news that various consortia are intent on forging an online teaching presence that will reach out in what might seem to some like a quasi-imperial way. No one I know thinks that these [...]
Putting the Dance in Your mLearnCon Attendance
May 29, 2012 By
The mLearnCon event is 3 weeks away. If you are designing learning experiences in any way, you’ve got to take mobile devices seriously. This is not a fad that will just go away if you keep demanding that your students check their devices at the …
Accelerated Job Training Programs at St Louis Community College Showing Great Promise
May 29, 2012 By
St. Louis Community College (STLCC) is a model community college system that puts forth a great deal of results-oriented energy into increasing its workforce development, corporate training and regional economic development mission and strategy. STLCC …
Fast Track to Success: Top Young Trainers 2012
May 29, 2012 By
Training’s fifth annual list of the accelerating stars in the training industry today.
By Lorri Freifeld
Supercharged. High-performers. Leaders of the pack. No, we aren’t talking about the latest racecars. We’re talking about Trainingmagazine’s…
How Online Training Could Help You Win That Tender
May 25, 2012 By
Generating business has been easier. While a good reputation and a solid sales pitch used to bring in the work, the tough economy has altered the decision-criteria for L&D departments. And this is not just about the price tag. In fact, we find that the…
Pinterest is Popular! Do We Need Learnist?
May 24, 2012 By
This will be a short post. If you haven’t heard, there is a very cool new website called Pinterest.com that is all the rage with the ladies. The power of Pinterest is in its user interface design and the idea that images are the media content of choic…
Instructional Design and Storytelling, or Instructional Design IN Storytelling
May 18, 2012 By
I am a big fan of storytelling. I’m also a big fan of movies. I’m also a big fan of video. Okay, so I’m not going to list all the different media types. I do love them all. Put into the hands of experts media can impact human beings in profo…
