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Saturday Night Live certainly doesn't think much of online degrees a subject that I was thinking was going away since I posted about it back in 2006 - Lower Value of Online Degree Programs?

Workplace Learning Today pointed me to a post Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History . I use similar kinds of examples in my presentations (and posts such as Work Skills Keeping Up? ). I thought it might be fun for me to catalog some of the ones that I’ve used in my presentations and other places as well as have this ready for future presentations. So here is a list of technologies that: Boomers – used Gen X – know what it is (probably) Millenial – never used / likely don’t know what it is If you are a Boomer or an older Gen X, this list is sure to make you feel a bit old. Pay Phones – Collect Calls Where’s the nearest pay phone? Call me collect? Typewriter / Ribbon / Correcting Ribbon "You need to mute your sound" Records / Phonographs Sounds like a broken record Skipping Needle Cassette Drive Floppy Disk / Floppy Drive Dual floppy drive Word Star Word Perfect Punch Card Card ...

I mentioned in my post 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? that we are seeing more and more about Add-ins & Mashups as a means to build richer learning experiences.  I particularly cited a DevLearn demo of twitter being embedded inside Captivate as the basis of a social learning experience. They’ve posted on the Adobe Captivate blog - Collaborative learning using Captivate and Twitter .  You can run a demo (18 mins) to see it in action.  The basic idea is that students will be able to have a social learning experience utilizing twitter as a messaging systems within a Captivate course.

It’s always fun at the end of the year to go back and take a look at what you’ve been working on, what you’ve learned during the year.  I’ve been doing this the past few years.  And as part of this, I’ve been taking advantage of: 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? , 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. Knowledge Work Skills / Work Literacy Having realized in 2007 that there's a very important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap , I felt the need in 2008 to find ways to help knowledge workers  and organizations build skills like Leveraging Networks , Network Feedback , Finding Expertise , Using Social Media to Find Answers to Questions , Learning through Conversation and searching, scanning, etc. In June 2008, Work Literacy Launched . 2009 has continued that effort.  I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up .  And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics ...

The EduBlog Awards are happening again this year.  I’m happy to say there were several nominations for this blog and for LearnTrends.  There are a lot of great nominees in all of the categories. If you’ve found value from this blog and/or LearnTrends, please click on the links below and vote for them in their categories.  It’s a nice way to support the sources you use. eLearning Technology was nominated in two categories: Best eLearning / Corporate Education Blog 2009 Best Resource Sharing Blog 2009   LearnTrends was nominated for: Best Educational Use of Audio Best Educational Use of a Social Networking Service   I also appreciated that several people nominated eLearning Learning for various categories.  It didn’t get put on the short list in any of the categories, but I do want to thank people who nominated it. Ajaan Rob Best educational use of a social networking service http://www.elearninglearnin...

I had previously written about Low Cost LMS and Rapid Learning Management Systems , but I receive an inquiry from someone who had a very constrained budget and wanted to build an eLearning Portal . Some details of what they want / need: The portal we need to develop should be able to handle online registration, producing letters of offer, payment gateway, producing letters of acceptance, producing student cards, downloading syllabi, downloading study guides, processing purchasing orders that trigger the distribution of the textbooks by the Publishers’ office to students, communication between mentors and students, organizing forums, notice board, chat rooms, uploading e-Lectures, downloading topic questions, downloading assignments and coursework, posting answers to mentors, mentors grading the students’ work and posting marks, issuing tutorial time-table, posting final exam dates and posting exam results, transcript issuance and degree issuance and graduation. Because of th...

One of my most popular posts each year is my list of predictions. In fact, my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 , was most popular post for 2009 (see 2009 Top Posts and Topics ) and it came up pretty high in the recent Top 125 eLearning Posts of 2009 . I will definitely be coming out with my 2010 predictions. In fact, I’ll be doing a virtual presentation around it as well. Of course, the problem with predictions, especially written predictions, is that you can look back and see how you did at the end of the year. So this post is my chance to go back to the predictions I made at the start of 2009 and see how I did. #1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. Instead, we will call this "self-directed learning" and will do our best to support the workforce to learn it on their own with minimal guidance and...

Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts come through eLearning Learning that provide eLearning templates or toolkits or other kinds of interesting resources . Here are 20 of them: e-Learning Methodology Toolkit: templates to design and manage your e-learning projects Free downloadable storyboard templates Amazing eLearning Flash Template Bundle Storyboard Templates and Resources How to Create a Visual Design for Your E-Learning Scenario Here’s a Free PowerPoint Template & How I Made It Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Free Storyboarding templates Storyboards for eLearning Social Media in Learning: Handbook and Toolkit Easy ways to create your elearning templates Really Fast Storyboarding for e-Learning Projects Build Branched E-Learning Scenarios in Three Simple Steps Creating...

While strife with technical challenges, Nancy White and John Smith’s presentation at LearnTrends 2009 ( LearnTrends 2009 Recordings ) provided some really interesting food for thought. In some ways this relates closely to the post on Selling Learning Communities . By way of background, Nancy White and John Smith are gurus around all things Communities and Networks. I’ve worked with Nancy to create the Communities and Networks Connection which helps me continuously learn. And I keep a copy of their book Digital Habitats; Stewarding Technology for Communities next to my computer. The central idea of the presentation was something that Nancy called triangulation. Now, I’m not 100% certain what Nancy meant by this, but I interpret the idea to organize learning community events where you bring together three groups: People inside the host / sponsoring organization who have a particular need Outside experts Outside peers You (or an outside facilitator) facilitates...

It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is.  I’ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 .  But for now, let me just focus on my Best of 2009. To create this list, I’m using eLearning Learning as described in Using Special Parameters to Create Year End Post for details on how I’ve come up with this list.  I’m including posts from December 2008. Top 20 eLearning Technology Posts for 2009 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 Top 100 eLearning Items LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers Collaboration Tools Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool Top 99 Workplace eLearning Blogs Twitter Conference Ideas Using SharePoint How to Download YouTube Videos eLearning Conferences 2010 Tool Set 2009 LMS and Social Learning Business of Learning Web Conferencing Services eLearning Costs Twit...