Corporations do not speak of stagnation
But of maturity and development
ASTD (Dallas May 2006)
On line Educa (Madrid May 2006)

So what?

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Now it's Blended Learning everywhere. And HR think that's cool, because they can reuse their classrooms. So it's going back to where they started. And they are back in control!

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The HR view:
Maturity means: we are back holding control
Integration, tracking, blended...
Development means: look at our figures!
Number of users, hours, abandon rate...

Stagnation: The learner's view
Quantity? Just in time? Anywhere, anytime?
(this was the value proposition to the learners: work at home with no extra pay)

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E-learning 2.0 is not just a new release:

It's a change of paradigm:
From training to learning

But changes of paradigm take time...

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(Presentation of) Knowledge Pills

Understanding...
in 15 minutes.

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The youngest people read less and less but do spend a lot of time in the Internet

Wikipedia from 400th position to 28th in one year

The "for Dummies" style books are very big publishing sales

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More understanding than learning
In about 15 minutes (3000-3500 words)
For smart people and not for dummies
These Knowledge Pills are organised by fields, as a start:
- Internet- New Technologies - Telecoms
- Business
- Society

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Subject Examples:

E-Bay, Amazon, iTunes, RSS: the new web media
E-learning: platforms, definitions, etc.
Mp3, iTunes
Globalization
China 2006: opportunities and fears
N.G.O

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