Learners bozo-filter content rated poorly by their peers. Collaborative filters suggest links enjoyed by others in one's professional and social communities. One link may call up an informative customer comment or the next a celebrity lecture on the net. An entire world of learning is always but a micro - payment away. Not that all learning takes place on a desktop.
People learn in smart rooms, from wireless portables, anywhere they please.
Learning is food for thought. Online learning guru Elliott Masie describes classroom events as the gourmet meal of training. Today's executives, IT managers, and training professionals are investing heavily in intranets, satellites, multimedia, and knowledge bases . Many are automating the past rather than bridging to the future, locking in on quick fixes and dead-end technologies. The future is now Several times last year, I predicted the arrival of a new product by 2002, only to read about it in The New York Times or Slashdot within a week.