The job description read, “Leverage your knowledge and experience to develop learning content in written
, audio, video, and other formats that will be available to workers on an enterprise wide basis through deployment on the corporate information infrastructure. This will include wiki’s, forums, and blogs, as well as both informal and formal training assets.” I heard Steven Spielberg applied for this position and was turned down. So who is this job description addressed to? To answer that question, we should probably get some perspective.
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I walked into Starbucks the other day, looked to the menu, and didn’t see anything that looked good. So I ask the person behind the counter “What was a cool and hip drink everyone is drinking these days that I might like”. I didn’t get an immediate response so I thought perhaps the person loo
ked at me and thought “There is no drink in the world that could make this guy cool and hip “
I didn’t like that idea to well so I thought perhaps they looked at me and said “Wow, this guy is already so cool and hip I couldn’t even begin to think of a drink that would improve upon that.“
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This question came up in one of the forums I belong to and I thought I would include it and my response.
“Has e-Learning has changed so much over the past decade, it can be difficult to keep up with what one is using for eLearning. I am trying to get a list of all the possible means/methods of eLearning. What do you think or the most widely used methods by individuals in companies?”
Here was my response.
“I believe these days one could reasonably categorize e-Learning as any technology assisted learning experience. This would include traditional on-line asynchronous e-Learning, blended learning, Blogs, Wikis, Collaboration, Forums, and probably a few others I missed. More importantly might be distinctions between formal and informal learning as well as structured and unstructured learning of which all can be a permutation of e-Learning. It seems like it used to be simpler to make distinctions but it appears learning is becoming more of a self directed activity and the easy access to the wide volume of e-Learning facilitates this.”
