Tom Haskins paints an intriguing picture in his answer to the Learning Circuits blog big question this month. He replies to the question “ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors – What Should They Do?” with a description of what things are like “now” and the recommendation that given this set of circumstances “Leave a clean corpse” is
To hear some Web 2.0 enthusiasts tell it, “training” is becoming an outmoded concept. These days, anybody who needs to know anything can find it on the web. It is a new dawn for the autonomous learner. It is true that the read-write web has brought us an unprecedented avalanche of instantly available information. If
Raph Koster has a fascinating slide show he presented to the 2007 Games Development Conference. I like to keep a weather eye on the games industry, because they know a *lot* about how to engage people in the art of learning. In his presentation, he offered a slide with these points: The fail fast, fail
We’ve all had experience working on an important project. Maybe it was one which was going to have the attention of the movers and shakers, or one which was going to decide whether we get the business. Or maybe, it was one which was going to decide our grade for the semester. If we’ve been
We are seeing a wave of new entries into the collaboration software category which incorporate the new hot web 2.0 applications. Everybody and his brother is building platforms with profiles, blogs, wikis and rss, and depending on which piece the developers know best, that piece is the centerpiece. The Blogtronix people clearly believe that the