Classroom decorum has gone the way of the schoolmarm and the dunce cap, and "good riddance," some say. Behavior such as eating in class, arriving late, and challenging the teacher has become commonplace in high school and college classrooms, and increasingly so in corpo... More »

Higher Education , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Social Learning , Training and Development - General

George Orwell was dead wrong. Big Brother is not watching us as much as we are watching each other. Not only are more people using social media tools more often to communicate and collaborate, but their use is changing us. Instead of losing privacy to the government or ... More »

Learning Technologies

Informal Learning , Social Learning , Trends

For most of the seven years that ASTD has been collecting data on the state of the training industry, the use of classrooms for delivery of training has been dropping steadily. Displacing brick and mortar classrooms are myriad web- and computer-based delivery vehicles, ... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Informal Learning , Mobile Learning , Social Learning , Training and Development - General

Web 2.0 and social networking tools are playing a growing role in informal learning inside organizations. But there's an odd catch. They work best when employees trust the tools and use them, which is closely related to how much control employees are given and how littl... More »

Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Social Learning

How did I do? It's a common question from Gen Y and younger employees to their bosses and peers. These pragmatic people want feedback on their performance in real time and know how to get it using social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook. Instead of waiting ... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Career Development , Informal Learning , Social Learning , Trends