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America's Learning Leaders in 2006

Daniel Staemmler — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:17:03 +0000

Bersin & Associates’ judges have made their choice in the Winter 2007 ELearning! Magazine and nominated companies that “… have demonstrated innovation and excellence in corporate learning“. The winners have been chosen in the following five categories:

Operational program excellence,
Leadership program excellence,
Technology excellence,
Organizational and management excellence, and
Initiative Excellence.

Each category starts with a description of the criterion on which the decision is based upon. Winners range from General Motors Corp., Philips Medical Systems, Bellevue University till Saks, Inc..

In the same issue (page 23) Elliott Masie lists 7 Trends and Features on Learning “… that will morph the training function“. Well, I guess it is time again for some prediction that can be revisited to see if someone was right or wrong in their prediction of the future.Â However, Trend #2 (“Content becomes democratized”) isn’t really a NEW trend. Web 2.0 and the buzz about it is going on for quiet while now, and what is it all about? Right, among other things the creation of content on the web, e.g. Wikipedia.
Trend #7 is interesting: “Finding courses will be more important than creating courses”. I personally belief that the fulfillment of this trend lies not in the near future, if taken into consideration that we are talking about qualitative courses here that allow the learner to participate on a outcome based learning approach.

The 2006 Edublog Awards

Daniel Staemmler — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:14:07 +0000

Once again the Edublog Awards are out. Winners have been named in the following categories “Best Audio and/or Visual Blog”, “Best Group Blog”, “Best Individual Blog”, “Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation”, “Best Library/ Librarian Blog”, “Best Newcomer”, “Best Research Paper”, “Best Teacher Blog”, “Best Undergraduate Blog”, “Best Wiki” and “Edublog Star Award”.

For those who want to listen to the ceramony there is a recording and transcript of it available at EdTechTalk.com.

Top 50 Podcasts

Daniel Staemmler — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:01:33 +0000

The P2P Foundation published a list of the Top 50 Potcasts by topic. Under the “Education & Learning” topic for instance podcasts from David Wiley, Stephen Downes and Doc Searls are listed. I have not had a chance yet to really tune in to some of the podcasts but will report as soon as I get a chance to do so.