 | Webinar: The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games
If you are a Guild Member, Member Plus, or Premium Member, be sure to join us tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20, for our free Thought Leaders Webinar, featuring Clark Aldrich, author of the new book, The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games. Learn about the differences between educational simulations, serious games, and virtual worlds, when to use each, and how to launch a successful program that meets your organization's goals, needs, and capabilities. Register Here >> | |
RECESSION-PROOF Your E-Learning Through Collaborative Authoring | Sponsor | In today's economic climate, training departments are being asked to do more with less. In a push to utilize more Learning 2.0 instruments, organizations are seeking out cost effective tools to combat a decrease in budgets and personnel. We believe a collaborative approach to development and deployment is the key. Spend 30 minutes and let us introduce to you an easy-to-use, collaborative authoring solution that is revolutionizing how trainers are communicating and dramatically shortening their QA cycles, saving both time and money. See it for yourself here. Early Registrants receive a copy of our Special Report: 10 Rapid E-Learning Short-Cuts. |
 | DevLearn|09 ... Now MoreThan Ever! | As the economy starts to show signs of improvement, demand for training will increase because to drive organizational growth means getting new employees, business partners, and customers up to speed quickly. Is your organization ready to meet this demand? Now, more than ever, DevLearn 2009 is the right conference at the right time. DevLearn 2009 Conference & Expo offers the most comprehensive program focused entirely on the tools and technologies you'll need — and the sharpest ideas for the design, development, delivery, and management of truly effective e-Learning. Get ahead of the curve. Invest in the future success of your enterprise. Sign up for DevLearn right now and be ready...
 | Keynote: Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0: The State of an Art
Join opening keynote Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as he guides us through an exploration of how technology is impacting the enterprise in new and powerful ways and changing the way we work and learn. |
DevLearn 2009 is now just 3 weeks away! Join us in San Jose and Register today!
FYI: There are still rooms available at the Fairmont at reasonable prices. Check here for info |
The True Value of Online Training | Sponsor | Some of the best advice for companies during an economic downturn: Leave no stone unturned — especially when evaluating ways to cut costs, improve performance, and generally work smarter. That's precisely why organizations are choosing Web-based training over costly in-person training. This new white paper explores the benefits and true ROI of online training and takes an in-depth look at how two innovative companies successfully implemented Web-based training. DOWNLOAD |
 | New Guild Research Report Released
The Evolution of the LMS: From Management to Learning How are traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) dealing with the challenges posed by a participatory Web 2.0 world, where open source education systems, user-generated content, and myriad online content and process management systems are challenging the LMS's centrality in eLearning? Find out in this in-depth report | |
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| Cultural Change and Learning Online:
Online Social Networks Enable Individuals | It's not possible to introduce social networks for e-Learning without considering their effect on an organization's total business process. Social networks are a disruptive process, and managers of e-Learning initiatives would do well to keep this in mind. Read this week's article to understand the dimensions of this job! |
| Social Networking Status Update | |
- CollegeNET has released IT Impact, a Web-based change and configuration management tool for higher education that adheres to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards. More...
- Elluminate, Inc., announced that it has acquired Edtuit, the company that developed the Elluminate-sponsored LearnCentral™ social learning network. LearnCentral combines asynchronous social networking with Elluminate's real-time online communication, collaboration, and education environment. More...
- Flash Professional CS5 will allow developers to build applications for Apple's iPhone. The forthcoming release of Adobe's multimedia authoring tool was unveiled Monday at the Adobe MAX 2009 conference, underway in Los Angeles this week. More...
- Moodlerooms is integrating the EQUELLA digital repository into its learning management platform, powered by the open-source Moodle LMS. Through a new partnership with The Learning Edge North America, the platform will incorporate EQUELLA without adding any new licensing fees. More...
- Mozilla is pushing ahead with its open video support in the Firefox web browser. Current developer builds of Firefox 3.6, expected to arrive later this year, now include a full-screen option for movies embedded using the HTML5 video tag. More...
- Odijoo, the first online learning platform to give trainers their own secure space from which to create, deliver, and monetize online courses, was released. Odijoo, which means "teacher" in Swahili, is a free-to-use web-based application that combines course creation, learning management, hosting, e-commerce, and social networking tools. More...
- Rapid Intake announced the addition of SWiSH, a rapid Flash animation tool, to its rapid e-Learning software ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio. More...
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