E-learning and social media assets do not generally get the weight they deserve on an organization’s balance sheet. First: Blog Spottings and Other News An Introduction to e-Learning: The A to Z for Getting Started Readers seeking an accelerated introduction to online learning or who would like to offer one to other members of their […]
I’M IN UR LMS
I came across this funny and instructive little Flash movie on Cathy Moore’s Making change: Ideas for lively elearning blog this morning (a great site for anyone even remotely interested in online learning to visit) and once again could not resist a Friday posting. For Mac users, it’s worth noting that this was created using […]
Online Learning: What If Your Program Disappeared?
In my last posting I noted that the organizations I interact with are often concerned about how to effectively market and sell online learning—or at the very least, how to get learners to actually use the e-learning products they provide even in cases where the offerings are free. In most cases, a lack of marketing […]
E-learning: Where are the Nonprofit Purple Cows?
Nonprofits are using e-learning (at least according to the annual Isoph and N-TEN survey on online learning in the nonprofit sector), but it is hard to find the examples of great nonprofit e-learning. Are there purple cows out there? First: Blog Spottings and Other News While it would have been a great item to work […]
Rapid E-learning, Blogs, LMSes, and more
Technology is like the flame to which otherwise rational learning professionals are drawn like moths. I witnessed this phenomenon once again last week while attending a session on e-learning at the ASAE annual conference. In the midst of a discussion of e-learning strategy, Second Life was mentioned. The next several minutes were then spent on […]
ASAE 2007-The Web 2.0 Beat
My previous post on the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) addressed the “vital signs” of e-learning in the association sector and offered the opinion that there is clearly much interest in e-learning among associations and that ASAE could be doing more to provide support and guidance. I also approached the […]