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This month’s big question asks, “In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?” Last month I opened the IADIS eLearning 2009 Conference in Portugal with an address [...]

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. -Edgar Degas Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. -W. Edwards Deming Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. -Jim Rohn If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things that [...]

Informal Learning was the theme of Tony Bingham’s keynote presentation at ASTD’s International Conference and Exhibition in Washington this month. To my surprise, he brought up a recent article I wrote for CLO magazine on the importance of making connections. Here’s a recording of Tony’s presentation.

The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online. It features an article in which Jon Husband and I delve into how to measure the impact of learning in the network era. Productivity in a Networked era: Not Your Father’s ROI Today’s networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible [...]

In the past three weeks, I have been scanned, patted down, forced to remove my belt and shoes, and asked to wait in line for the privilege, in San Francisco, London, Lisbon, Madrid, and Philadelphia. Collectively, we’re wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on this nonsense, money that could be invested in  schools, parks, and public [...]

To fork or not to fork? Blogging has been an important part of my life for ten years but now I’m wondering if the party isn’t moving on. Like classrooms in training, blogs will always be around. But also like classrooms, blogs are ceasing to be the primary source of value. While I write a couple of public-facing [...]