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Update on Twitter for Learning Professionals m

Posted on September 23, 2009 // 1 Comment

This is a re-posting from:

Follow all of these learning professionals here:

http://blog.elementk.com/element_k_blog/2009/09/update-on-twitter-for-learning-professionals-.html

Did you know that Element K is now on Twitter? We started using Twitter as an organization in late June, and you can follow us via the account “Element_K,” which can be found at http://www.twitter.com/Element_K. Through this account we are sharing links to interesting industry articles, blog postings, resources and more, as well as announcements about Element K webinars and other happenings.

Beyond that news, back in February I wrote a posting here at Element K Blog—“Twitter, Twitter, Tweet, Tweet”—intended to help people in the L&D industry get started with Twitter. Since then, of course, Twitter has exploded in popularity, brought on in part by celebrity and media attention, but also by very legitimate uses of Twitter, ranging from its role in political events, to its corporate use for marketing, customer service, and even sales, to its use by everyday working professionals as a powerful information gathering tool. It’s this last use-case that I still think is important for learning and development professionals to take seriously.

With that in mind, and because it comes up at every industry event I participate in, I wanted to provide another posting on this topic. Refer back to my earlier posting for a basic introduction and valuable links for more information—there are many more I could share that have come along since, but you only need so many “Twitter for newbies” articles to get you started.

More importantly, I wanted to provide an updated list of leaders in the L&D field that you might consider “following” on Twitter (most, but not all of whom, use Twitter regularly). For each, simply visit http://www.twitter.com/username, such as http://www.twitter.com/Element_K:

* Element_K
* Thomas Stone of Element K
* Anders Gronstedt
* Allison Rosset
* Bill Brandon
* B.J. Schone
* Brent Schlenker
* Cammy Bean
* Jane Hart
* Clive Shepherd
* Cushing Anderson
* Dave Ferguson
* David Mallon
* David Metcalf
* Stephen Downes
* David Wilkins
* Ellen Wagner
* Elliott Masie
* George Siemens
* Grant Ricketts
* David Holcombe
* Gary Woodill
* Heidi Fisk
* Harold Jarche
* Jane Bozarth
* Jay Cross
* Janet Clarey
* Jeanne Meister
* Josh Bersin
* Judy Brown
* Kevin D. Jones
* Karl Kapp
* Koreen Olbrish
* Lance Dublin
* Margaret Martinez
* Mike Cooke
* Tom King
* Mark Oehlert
* Clark Quinn
* Ray Jimenez
* Steve Howard
* Tony Karrer
* Tom Werner
* Will Thalheimer
* Michelle Lentz
* Travis Smith (<-ME, my addition) :)

No doubt I am missing several key people, but this is a good list to get you started (Not seeing someone you are looking for? Try the much larger directory of people in the L&D field who are using Twitter provided by Jane Hart’s excellent Connexions Directory.)

Consider also the following industry organizations and magazines that are on Twitter, as many provide valuable links and news as well:

* ASTD’s primary account
* ASTD Communications
* Bersin and Associates
* Brandon Hall Research
* Chief Learning Officer magazine
* TrainingIndustry.com
* Talent Management magazine

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Learning: Types, Modes, & Mediums

Posted on February 23, 2009 // 1 Comment

So Steve Sorden (@sorden) posted a comment-question on Twitter, “informal, formal, social, self-directed, action, observation “learning”. Any other types of “learning” that come to mind?” For some reason, I could not let this question go and have been thinking about it for some time now. However, the problem with this is that “types” is vague as well as “learning.” So to really nail down this question, one needs to define both. For example, by types, do we mean styles, mediums, modes of learning, or all or something else entirely? To complicate this even further, there are 9 different types of intelligences (Gardner) and learners.

So let’s see if I can come up with a complicated list of some sort. There are a variety of types of learning: informal (see here, here), formal, social (and here, a guide here, here), uLearning (ubiquitous), self-directed, independent, action/kinesthetic, emotional? auditory, and observational/visual learning.

ULearningThere a limited number of modes of learning: see, hear, see & hear, discuss, experience, and teach (can we add imaginative?). Then there is a growing number of mediums of learning: mentoring/discipleship/apprenticeship, small group learning, eLearning, classroom learning, mLearning (mobile), and virtual learning.

What do you think? This is not meant to be exhaustive, but is there more? What would you add, merge, or take away?

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