In the past several years, in the area of "social" tools and technologies, I've witnessed the rise and fall of various related concepts and terms, both in the Learning and Development industry and in the business world more broadly.  Let me spell out how I've experienced this over the past four years, and see if you've seen the same trends.  But "Web 2.0" " involves. 

In my previous post, I considered the question of "Who can benefit from mobile learning first?" "  Now I'd like to consider mobile learning from another angle: Where is mobile learning most helpful?  After all, if you are sitting at your desk, using a robust laptop or desktop computer with access to all of your learning resources, then you won’t have as much need for learning on a smartphone or tablet device. "  In discussing this question, I always like to split it into two main categories.  Retail employees: Where a laptop is not practical, a smartphone certainly could be. 

Nearly everybody loves a good quotation.  don't mean the commonplace, tiresome, boring, or cliché quotes -- but truly good, powerful, inspiring, or thought-provoking quotes.  And this desire for pithy wisdom is certainly not lessened by the emergence in recent years of technologies that encourage short messages, such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.  People share a lot of things using these kinds of services (and their private Enterprise 2.0 cousins), ranging from personal comments and opinions, to links to blog postings or articles, and yes -- good quotations.  The good teacher explains. 

In my previous two posts, I considered the questions of "Who can benefit from mobile learning first?" "  and "Where is Mobile Learning Most Helpful?" "  Now I'd like to consider mobile learning from one more angle: What kinds of content can be used for mobile learning?  But before describing specific examples, I’ll start by noting the broad applicability of mobile learning (learning while on the move, using highly portable devices such as smartphones or tablets).  When people are expanding the breadth and depth of what they have learned (More).  Book abstracts. 

Element K was delighted to again participate in the Learning Technologies 2011 conference held last recently in London.  Now in its 12th year, this event showcased organizational learning and the technology used to support learning at work.  We had plenty of traffic at our exhibit stand, and our outstanding Element K team in Europe did a great job keeping up with it.  We noted that the conversations this year were generally at a deeper level than the ones in 2010.  and Social Learning Best Practices," and "Blending Web 2.0 Technologies with Traditional Formal Learning."  Industry Event

Few industry events are scheduled during the holiday season of late December and early January.  But at this point, things are again kicking into high gear, so I thought it would be a good time to link back to my earlier posting from October 2008, titled "15 Tips for Making the Most of Learning Industry Conferences." "  For more good tips, see also the recent ASTD blog posting "How to Make the Most Out of the Expo." "  I'd also like to draw attention to three major L&D industry events that Element K will be participating in during coming weeks. 

It's time for another edition of the Learning and Development Roundup!  See also previous editions at the archive page.)  Jane Hart's Top Tools for Learning for 2010 Jane Hart's annual list, "Top 100 Tools for Learning," is now complete, and she has posted this year’s results online.  As she has done in previous years, she has provided the complete list of results and also created a SlideShare presentation.  This year she had more contributions than ever -- a total of 545 from learning professionals worldwide.  2010 Best in Breed List.  In "Do You See?" 
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I recently wrote a blog post titled "Podcasts in the Learning and Development Industry" wherein I described and linked to several of the more popular and valuable podcasts for learning professionals.  In this post I thought I'd do something similar for free video content, going beyond the excellent videos from CommonCraft that I've blogged about here.  First I'll start with the intersection of the largest free video sharing site in the world, and the largest L&D organization in the US: the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). 
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It is rare for a blog in the Learning and Development industry to reference a story from a sports magazine, but that is what I'm about to do.  There was a fascinating update piece , in the "Where Are They Now?" "  section of the August 2 edition of Sports Illustrated.  The subject was Jason McElwain.  Don't recognize the name?  You might actually recognize the story once I remind you of the details.  Element K is headquartered in Rochester, New York.  And the list goes on.  All of this I already knew. " He's always throwing ideas at me."  Discussion forum moderators. 
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Are you familiar with the garden metaphor?  This is a metaphor for a set of better practices for the use of various Web 2.0 / social media tools (wikis, blogs, forums, social profiles, etc.)  in organizations and other contexts as well.  I'm not sure who first came up with this metaphor, but I for one will be forever grateful as I've used it often in my conference and other industry presentation.  Analogies and metaphors are great for cementing in people's minds new or difficult abstract concepts, because they relate the concepts to more concrete, everyday things they are familiar with. 
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At this time of year, many magazine writers, bloggers, and analysts do one or two things: they take a look back at the past year's ups and downs and/or they make predictions (bold or otherwise) about the year ahead.  As a blogger—and more generally as a human conditioned my entire life with a January through December calendar year—I can't help but find myself thinking along these lines as well.  have many thoughts on both the year 2009 that we are wrapping up, and the year 2010 ahead of us (and beyond), so I'll share one such prediction with you now.  Podcast host/interviewer.  Web 2. 
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