Web based training - tips and benefits

So you have finally decided to check out web based training. Perhaps the down economy has made this a top priority because you are tasked with doing more with less. Web based training can be a powerful and cost effective addition to your existing training and e-learning strategy.

Learn more about the benefits of web based training from www.web-basedtraining.com.

Talent Management

Have you heard about Talent Management? What is your organization doing about talent management? Join us to discuss at Talent Management 360.

e-Learning Software - How to easily create your own elearning system

eLearning Software - Quickly and easily create e-learning programs

• Use a hosted e-learning solution
• Get pricing per user.
  
• Get free trial to make sure you like the system
  
• Try eLeaP Learning Management and e-learning software system
  

Apparently Spammers Hate Blue Security -- seems Blue Frog folded ;)

Interesting antispam concept -- let your PC send millions of automated opt-out messages to the spammers. Sound great so what's the problem ... well the spammers don't particularly like to receive millions of "reverse spam."

More of this story at Wired News

{update: seems Blue Frog succumbed to a sustain DOS, DNS attack. They have since folded operations}

eLeaP Learning Management Platform

I am involved in developing a web 2.0 learning management platform - eLeaP. Check out what Saul Weiner, Web 2.0 expert in Silicon Valley had to say about eLeaP.

".. eLeap seems to be looking to capture some of the customer facing learning management (instead of just internal employee training, although it does offer this). And they were kind enough to hook me up with a demo and a user guide to get me going.

From a high level, eLeap offers most of what is needed:

• Courses and Lessons
• Payments (although it wasn't implemented on my demo)
• Quizzes
• Career path management
• Basic reporting
• Forum"

Read full review:

We are indeed ambitious .. for what's the fun in wasting all this brain power. As usual your comments are welcome ... believe me we have some pretty tough hides :)

Web 2.0, Rich Internet Applications, AJAX ...?

What's in a name? Is AJAX the new RIA (Rich Internet Applications)for the Web 2.0 movement and how does this apply to elearning or Learning 2.0? First of all the explosion of terminology in web applications, technologies and philosphy is in my opinion belying an underlining tension .. Are web technologist and marketers so insecure we have to keep coming up with these new terms.

I believe the user should drive the technology and lets keep the marketers out of the whole naming crap .... Personally I like the concepts of Web 2.0 as expoused by Tim O'Reilly. We have focus on Web Services, Delivery of Personalized & Rich User experience, Leveraging the Collective Intelligence of the planet, Shifting User roles - more collaborative and publisher roles than passive web visitors, and my favorite Platforms outperforming standalone applications.

You ask.. so how is all of this related to Learning .. or the Learning 2.0 movement ..if indeed it is a movement (from what I hear Jay Cross has called Learning 2.0 a useless term .. ahem .. pretty strong stuff)

I believe using Web 2.0 applications or platforms, or Rich Web or RIA to create a more cinematic and interative learning experience incorporating Web 2.0 concepts such as user/publisher, collaborative versus static user experiences is a good thing.

So can we quit quibbling about semantics, terminology and instead focus on creating a richer, more engaging, user experience - be it elearning, e-commerce, entertainment or just plain publishing ala blogging or social networks. Share your comments at the e-Learning Place

Is E-Learning 2.0 For Real?

{This post is courtesy of Bryan Menell of LEARNING20.blogspot.com}

Is E-Learning 2.0 For Real?

Stephen Downes posted a summary of his private writings on the subject of "E-Learning 2.0" on his blog recently. I'm cross posting my reply here.

Creating cultures that value learning is a great ideal, but there are enough people in the world who do value learning, peer production, and learning content creation. Maybe today it is more like a sub-culture, but 20 years from now it won't be "sub" anymore.

The biggest problem is that we don't have tools or markets for loosely coupled learning objects. Without those the peer network cannot produce anything. The peer producers are also not going to buy and learn flash, or even learn HTML for that matter. Producing learning content has to be as easy as creating a blog entry, and the result has to be as engaging as watching a TV show, or playing a video game.

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I invite you to discuss learning 2.0 and web 2.0. How would this convergrnce of technology and growth of web applications change the learning universe? Join us at the e-Learning Place.
What is Learning 2.0? See what Stephen Downes says about Learning 2.0.

So how can we help to reinstill the culture of learning in our communities, schools, workplaces, churches, mosques etc.

I say reinstill because I believe learning has always been an integral part of the human condition.. that is how we got here in the first place. Share your ideas? Do you think Learning 2.0 is a fad? Do you think the convergence of technology (web 2.0) and learning bodes well for our world?
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