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I love Twitter!

Posted on June 2, 2009 by in Blog

I love Twitter!

That may surprise people. Especially if they know me well and know that I like personal connection; I never ‘Reply All’ to an email (why would EVERYONE want to know what I’m doing?), and I only check Facebook about once every 6 months.

Why then do I so love Twitter?

Because since my first Tweet 4 weeks ago I have learnt so much.

Accessing my Twitter page each day is like going into my own personal learning vault. It changes everyday with the people I admire sending me fresh information and insights. I never know quite what I will find. I can read as much or as little as I like and of course if it resonates with me I take the information away and put it into action, ensuring I complete the transfer of learning into something useful.

My favourite people to follow right now are:

@gihanperera – who is a Thought Leader on all things web based

@timferris – one of the world’s top learners for sure

@c4lph – Jane Hunt who is a learning and social media specialist

@TED-Tweets – ‘Ideas worth tweeting’

@rove1974 – who makes me laugh!

You’re welcome to follow me on Twitter…

@emmaweber

You can join Twitter and then see a full list on my profile of exactly who I’m following:

www.twitter.com

As a top tip, you can follow and un-follow depending on what your topic of interest is at any point in time. I’m learning about blogging and social media at the moment and so am following many in that field. Likewise, I’m following learning specialists so I can keep up to date with key trends and issues.

Let me know if you’re twittering or have a twitter experience to share.

Learning Trends

Posted on May 28, 2009 by in Blog

I was reading Josh Berin’s blog  the other day and he was talking about learning trends. He described how we have moved through 4 key phases in the last 30 years:

• Traditional and computer assisted training in the 1980’s and 1990’s (Apparently 60% of all training in the US is till classroom based – my guess is that in Australia it is even higher.)
• E Learning Era 1998 – 2004
• Blended and Informal Learning 1995 – today
• Collaborative, Talent driven learning 2008+

He sees that now is another big step change.

The full article is very interesting and his Enterprise Learning Framework® fascinating.

The research they have conducted concludes that the current challenge for L and D professionals is not developing new content but is building an organisational learning culture and giving people within companies the skills to be effective learners.

It’s a blog to watch as they are due to release in June a research study on high impact learning strategies. I’ll keep you posted.

Any thoughts or statistics re % of training that is classroom based in Australia now?
Let me know.