The use of social media tools is revolutionizing the learning and development profession and practitioners need to develop skills in this important area. ASTD announces an update to the ASTD Competency Model that identifies competencies in social learning. This update w... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Competencies , Credentialing , Social Learning

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The American Society for Training & Development announces its International Conference & Exposition will be held May 6-9 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. This is the premier gathering of workplace learning and development professionals and ... More »

Career Development , Global Human Resources Development , Government , Higher Education , Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies , Sales Enablement , Senior Leaders & Executives

ASTD Press Room , Press Releases , Conferences

Given the proliferation of Tweets, discussion boards, web conferences, magazine articles, and conversations with colleagues, learning professionals receive myriad messages daily on what to do to be more aligned, collaborative, and relevant. Lists of What learning profes... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement

ASTD Press Room , Conferences

So I started trying to capture some of what was coming out of ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 Conference and Exposition on Twitter yesterday, but so much is happening that I ran out of time. Here's some more information to report from there (for more collections of backchannel ... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Innovation , Simulations and Serious Games , Trends

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