If you want to know what the future workplace employee looks like, just take a look at what K-12 educators are doing. I used to think there was very little connection between k-12 education and corporate training. And while I still see significant differences, I look to our education system often to see what type […]

If you want to understand the world of social media there are hundreds of "experts" and "gurus" ready to jump at the chance to help you. But if you want to learn about how social media/networks impact your enterprise and it's learning culture, there is only one...okay 2.  Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham have updated […]

Cindi looks at the screen excited to learn something new. Her professional license is up for renewal soon. She needs 2 more continuing education credits before the end of the week. Thankfully, there are more online learning options than ever before.   She searches a professional web site and finds a course that looks interesting and fairly priced. […]

I've been fascinated with YouTube lately. And not for the reasons you might think. At times it looks like an overnight success, but it's been around since 2005.  And while that's quite interesting, it's not what has me fascinated. Young kids are making millions of dollars with their YouTube channels and that's amazing as well.  But […]

YouTube hit the mainstream pretty hard in 2014. Or maybe I should rephrase that to YouTubers hit the mainstream in 2014. Of course the kids have been watching their favorite YouTubers long before 2014, but it just feels like the rest of the world is finally gaining interest. Youtube's popularity is a great example of […]

Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory indicates that people learn from one another. They accomplish this through techniques such as observation and modeling. With the recent influx of companies incorporating eLearning techniques, what happens to the Theory of Social Learning? Does eLearning mean that Social Learning is no longer important? Social Learning is still a vital aspect […]

Statistics show that 800 million people are on Facebook. Fifty-percent of those users visit the site more than once a day.  As a user myself that makes up that fifty-percent, it makes sense for one to ask why not combine eLearning with Facebook. If you're new to eLearning or Facebook and think this is a […]

Over at the Social Learning Camp I heard some good tips from Mark Oehlert on using Delicious bookmarking within organizations as a way of creating a knowledge base and a culture of knowledge sharing. The idea that you can turn a solitary action in to a community action is pretty cool. Meaning, instead of people […]

  Presented by Aaron Silvers and Mark Oehlert in the Social Learning Camp, I knew this topic was going to be interesting. The discussion started with a question, that was never really answered. In fact, as suspected this whole topic is pretty airy fairy because in order to measure social learning, you have to first […]

Mark Oehlert is running the Social Learning Camp at DevLearn 2009 and I just attended his session on 'The Big Three of Social Media / Social Learning: Fear, Control and Trust'. Here's a few takeaways from his talk which surrounded corporate culture and their objections to adopting social media, why they exist, and how to […]