I have an article in mind, entitled Corner of Social and Media: Where Glib, Cute and Stupid Meet, but it’s late, I’m tired, and nobody pays me anything for blog writing. So I had a thought.
What if I post a title and not explain at all what I had in my head and let other people contribute material from their perspective of the title, and what I might mean.
Don Clark wrote the following as part of a discussion about learning styles and training, and makes an excellent point about the many learning styles one could look at. My reply follows:
> That’s the whole point, the research does not support the VAK
> learning styles, or the other styles for that matter — it points the
> opposite way — towards content and context having their own delivery
> styles. So why would you recognize something that is not there? And if you
> do believe in all the various styles, how do you support 192 different
> styles in the classroom? If you coached one-on-one, then it would be
> possible, however, I do not think there are many of us that have that
> luxury.
I spend a fair amount of time each day maintaining, fixing or otherwise “serving” the machines in my office and home, or figuring them out. It struck me that there is a hidden cost to automating our lives to the extent that some of us might be actually lowering our productivity by over indulging in technology.
So, here’s a poll. I’ll post the link to results shortly, so be sure to bookmark or comeback for the discussion to follow.
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Learning Management Systems – What You Need to Know Before Selecting an LMS
By Don Weobong
Over the past two decades, the Internet has had a tremendous effect on humanity. It has dramatically changed almost every facet of life, from industry to communication to entertainment. A major benefit of the Internet revolution has been the increased accessibility to education. It is now inexpensive, easy and effective to take courses and training programs online. Online learning programs are known as Learning Management Systems or LMS, and a popular one is the eLeaP™ Learning Management System (LMS/LCMS), developed and headed by President Don Weobong.
Robo-Trainer Presentation Style Too Stiff
There’s no question that there’s a current “buzz” among trainers around the use of technology, and particularly “social learning”, to facilitate, and make more efficient, learning in the workplace. Elliot Maisie is considered one of the leading experts on the topic of workplace learning in general, but also in the use of technology for that function. Continue reading
I’ve been a user of openx software for a long time, and gone through several name changes of their’s while hosting the ad serving software on my own servers. For a long time I’ve had a desire to unify all of our ad serving on one server, and unfortunately, to do so would have required me to invest in a relatively expensive dedicated server to handle the needs of our ten websites.
When openx let me in to their free hosted service, I was excited to find a solution from a familiar organization that had a familiar interface. Sadly the initial excitement faded. There are definitely things you should be aware of before you commit the time to move to Openx hosted.
Here are a few elearning and informal learning white papers that have come across our desk. Please note that these offers tend to be available for only short periods of time, so if you are interested, please grab your copies ASAP.
Top 5 Trends in Learning Technology
Over the next while we’re going to be “unveiling” some new ways for you and I to diversify revenue streams, through some partnerships. If you are interested (overviews below) please sign on to our partnering discussion group at this location. I’m going to use that so I can communicate with potential partners without having to repeat everything. If it turns out you have no interest, just unsubscribe.
1) We are looking for a limited number of partners to sell our products (mostly e-items) as affiliates/resellers. Initially, until your first sales, the commission is a paltry 20%, but we’ll increase that quickly after your first few sales. We anticipate most successful resellers will be earning 50% of sales, quickly.
The economic difficulties are challenging everyone to find new revenue streams, and this is no less the case with trainers, consultants, HR professionals, and a variety of other professionals. Single revenue stream businesses are suffering even more than multiple revenue stream based businesses.
We’ve always tried, as a business strategy, to develop income from various sources — training, consulting, speaking engagements, keynotes, and also from publishing, writing, and creating learning materials. That strategy has kept us afloat so far in these tough economic times.