Join us after work for snacks, wine, and networking. We'll bask in the courtyard around the fountain, catch up with one another, and create our own content on the fly.

The eLearning Forum Board is encouraging more end-users of eLearning to participate in Forum events. If you are a consultant or vendor, bring a customer to the party.

Charge? We haven't figured out yet. If we can find a few sponsors for food and wine, admission will not be charged. Stay tuned. Or get in touch with Jay if your organization would like to be a sponsor.

We're inviting our sister organization, The eLearning Guild, to the party. If you'vre not a member of eLearning Forum but plan to attend, please RSVP by email Jay Cross so we can stock enough food and drink.

The Guild has announced The eLearning Instructional Design Conference, whick will take place July 25 & 26, 2002, in San Francisco. Imagine an entire conference focused on creating e-Learning that will maximize learner interaction and engagement.

You may want to join The eLearning Guild. Like eLearning Forum, the price is right. Free.

Meeting in Menlo Park, April 22, 2002
Envisioning Learning

Most eLearning is half-brained.
Join four visionaries to see what you've been missing.
Open your eyes to ways to improve eLearning and organizational performance.

David Sibbet, The Grove Consultants.
interview.
A Graphic Facilitation Retrospective.

Dave Gray, xplane.
interview.
Visual thinking: Communicating better using pictures

Sherrin Bennett, Interactive Learning Systems.
Click to see Sherrin's conceptual graphics from last month's session:

Bob Horn, founder of Information Mapping, MacroVU, The Lexington Institute.
Check out Visual Language and Converging Technologies over the Next 10 - 15 Years

Jay Cross. I am a mere mortal in the company of these gods of graphic communication, but I encourage you to share my enthusiasm for this topic, as expressed in a new white paper, Envisioning Learning.

Homework

You'll be drawing mind maps during the session. If you don't know how, check out one of these sites:

Jay uses Mind Manager from Mindjet for brainstorming, presentations, and site maps. You can download a trial copy for free.

Check the links above and start thinking about how you learn visually.
Wear a blindfold for an hour.
Extrpolate from these.

Meeting in Menlo Park, March 2002
Applied Meta-Learning

The Meta-Learning Lab has been exploring how meta-cognitive practices in content and assessment improve learner engagement and achievement.

What role does meta-learning play in eLearning? Understanding meta-learning principles and practices can significantly improve eLearning initiatives, leading to:

• Increased effectiveness of eLearning content and curriculum design
• More satisfied eLearners: increased retention, higher completion rates, and deeper understanding of content
• Skillful and confident leaders, managers, learning facilitators, trainers, coaches and mentors to implement and sustain successful learning initiatives
• Optimal organizational learning
• Increased ROI

Read a description of the session at The Meta-Learning Lab's website.

Report from eLearning Forum, February 2002
Marketing eLearning Internally

Here are photographs, presentations, and graphic summaries of February's meeting.

Meeting in Menlo Park, January 2002
Real-World eLearning Series
Enterprise eLearning at HP

You missed a great session today. Rob Harris kicked off a series on "Real-World eLearning" with a discussion of evolution, trends, and issues of Enterprise eLearning at HP.

Lucky for you, the session was well documented. Rob's thoughtful and thought-provoking presentaton in available in HTML. Also, recordings of the Centra session are online.

Our Blog

I asked participants to contribute their personal descriptions of what happened at the session. Better to have many voices than one. This evening I set up a weblog ("blog") to capture their words. Contributions have already started arriving.

Click on the button, check out what's there, and post a thought or a paragraph on Enterprise eLearning at HP or 2002 trends.

eLearning Forum Blog

Conceptual graphics
Sherrin Bennett explains the value of
visualizing relationships from group graphics.

Trends for 2002
Cisco's Peg Maddocks synthesizes members'
discussions about hot topics for 2002.

Photographs by Kevin Wheeler

December 2001 in Menlo Park:
Holiday Party

November 2001 Meeting:
Learning from the History of Corporate Training

Click for a summary

October 2001 Meeting:
Online Learning 2001, eLearning on Rations

Click for a summary

August 2001 Meeting:
Report from China, eLearning Business Models

Click for a summary

July 2001 Meeting:
The Economy, Games in Learning, & ROI

Click this guy for details

July 2001 Debut of Washington, D.C. Chapter
Federal programs and the Objective of Objects

Click for monumental details

June 2001 Meeting:
Peer-to-peer

Click the protester for follow up.

May 2001 Meeting:
Future Technologies and eLearning

Click AIBO for complete details.

April 2001: The State of the eLearning Industry

Trace Urdan of WR Hambrecht + Co led a discussion of the current situation with eLearning buyers and vendors, and provided a profile of potential winners. George Sutton of Dain Rauscher, David Stirling of PwC, and Jamie Clark of Deloitte joined the conversation with Placeware.

March 2001: Informal Learning (March 2001). Peter Henschel describes informal learning. Elise Olding of CLK Solutions, Hal Richman of Knowledge Navigators, and Gunnar Bruckman of the United Nations Development Programme walked us through ways to capture and share informally derived knowledge.

February 2001: Implementing eLearning in the Real World Bombs and Stars, Lessons of Implementing eLearning in the Real World. (February 2001). Jeanne Nolan of Convene.com and Daniel Tkach of Oracle bring the real picture into focus.

January 2001: The Human Side of eLearning (See also Learning Circuits). Sherry Hsi of Metacourse and Cliff Stoll, author of High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian brought out more of the human side than we'd planned for. Here's the version that appeared in Learning Circuits.

Topics of 2000

Looking back and looking ahead at eLearning (December 2000). Eilif led a very active discussion of what's happened in the eLearning world in the last year and what we see coming down the pike.

The eLearning Landscape: Today and Tomorrow (November 2000). Jay Cross presented The Evolution of the eLearning Elevator Pitch. Broadview showed preliminary work on a model of the eLearning industry. Mark Cavender updated us on the Chasm Group perspective on eLearning and how vendors can create competitive advantage. We will establish ongoing dialogues on these topics in our Conversations area.

Games and Simulations in eLearning (October 2000) with Don Jones of International Business Simulations, Odd Skarheim, CEO of Involve Learning in Norway, and Patrick Malmberg, CEO of Sweden's Intermezzon.

Universities and eLearning (September 2000) with Quisic, Stanford, and Harvard Business School Publishing

Live eLearning (August 2000) Presented by Estee Solomon Gray and MaryAlice Colen, InterWise

eLearning in the Nordic Region (July 2000) Presented by Eilif Trondsen, Program Director, SRI Consulting.

Is eLearning Different in Europe? (July 2000) Presented by Rob Edmonds, Senior Industry Analyst, SRI Consulting.

Broadband and eLearning (June 2000) Presented by Tanya Carswell, Director of Product Marketing, Ninth House Network.

Executives and E-Learning: Oil and Water or Elixir for Prosperity in the New Economy? (May 2000) Presented by Jay Cross and Kent Vickery, Internet Time Group.

Catalyst: A Proposal For An e-Learning Industry Infrastructure (April 2000) Presented by Thomas Hill, CEO & President, 1LIFEPlace.com Corporation.

Crossing the Chasm with e-Learning (April 2000) Presented by Mark Cavender, Managing Director, The Chasm Group.

e-Learning Category Life-Cycle Placement (April 2000) Presented by Mark Cavender, Managing Director, The Chasm Group.

Education Commerce: An Emerging Opportunity for Enterprises (February 2000) Presented by Cathy Gogan of Docent.

Introduction to the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (January 2000) Presented by Phil Vahey and Sherry Hsi.

Topics of 1999

Implementing E-Learning Solutions: Design Considerations (December 1999) Presented by Ellen Wagner, Chief Learning Officer, Infomania, Inc.

Facing the Challenges of the New e-Learning Market (December 1999) Presented by Lorin Kennedy, Director of Marketing, Pensare.

Reusable Information Object Standard (November 1999) Presented by Chuck Barritt, RIO Implementation Program Manager, and Wayne Wieseler, Senior Manager, Education Products Development, of Cisco Systems Worldwide Training division.

Learnativity: The Intersection of Learning, Productivity & Creativity (November 1999) Presented by Wayne Hodgins, Director & Strategic Futurist, Worldwide Learning Solutions, Autodesk.

Knowledge Management and eLearning (October 1999) Contains presentations by LoD team members Gregor Teigre and Marcelo Hoffmann.