Share Your Skies With Us

As one who has conducted choirs as a hobby, it dawned on me early on that a great beginning and a great ending can compensate for the muddle-through middle. Chris Pappas, who writes intelligently about so many learning subjects, has compiled a great checklist on how to have a great beginning. My favourites - provocative questions and character/avatar who will show up again and again. What about you? What are your favourite great beginnings?

I'm so big a believer in getting corporate culture / supporting employees "right" that I invested in an online platform, Culture Digs, to facilitate organizational culture evaluation. Employees need to engage - they must give heart and back as well as minds and hands. When they do, and when an organization places priority on employee engagement (internal communications, knowledge development, skill practice, and listening...), magic starts to happen. This article reminds us of some key practices.

What a difference a few years makes! At least one guru believes that 95% of all adult learning will be e-learning by 2020. This article, a fair synthesis of the traditional problems of "boring" in e-Learning, also identifies the trends that will make this work - personalization, mobile, and ability for content authors to easily and in a timely fashion update critical content. Let the mobility of content begin!