Looking forward to the most global Irish Learning Showcase (ILS) to date!!

The ILS is scheduled for December 1st – 3rd, in Dublin, Ireland. We are preparing to share highlights of the ILA research into technologies such as Social Media and Mobile Technologies and their impact on the commercial world – your businesses; to the attendees! ILA member companies will also present case studies, best practices and industry related topics.

Lots to do with a little over a week remaining (and the US holiday Thanksgiving will ‘eat’ up some time At this event we will host senior executives from the US, UK, Benelux region, Australia and Dubail. Look for their feedback to be posted directly ON THIS BLOG in the upcoming weeks!!

- Sharon

We just returned from a fabulous, informative and valuable Learning 2009 event.

Listed below are a few top line impressions and observations from Elliott Masie (pls note: these are partial quotes – for more information go to the Learning 2009 web site):

• Video: There is a strong interest and deployment of video in the world of learning
• Capt. Sully: Our time with Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger was fascinating. I am still thinking about his comments about the need to balance Teamwork, Trust, Shared Work Process Expectations and Learned Procedures.
• Social Media, Twitter and Back Channel Learning: Interesting to have a Twitter Scan going on in back of some of our keynote speakers. … The conversation is contiuning on #L2009 if you search on Twitter for comments and contributions.
• Virtual Leadership Skills: Lots of focus on how to add Virtual Leadership to the skillsets of new and existing leaders. How to build Digital Rhythm and More.
• Deconstructing Content: A number of speakers talked about reducing the investment in formal content and harvesting more of the content from Open Source or existing corporate content.

The ILA presented a very interactive presentation on ‘our journey’ in learning and how to leverage Irish investments. We will blog more on that and share with you the outcomes of our dialogue. Take a quick look at these first few photos:

Capt. Sully not only signed books (of which I have one) but also KINDLES. Here is a photo of us proudly displaying our ILA logo at the ILA stand including; Jonny Parkes, Jackie Stanforth from MindLeaders – who are now Masie Consortium Members, myself, Amy Martin from Interactive Services, and Declan Dagger from Empower the User. We also had strong representation from Intuition (missing from the photo) who had a very well attended presentation on thier success and best practices in Mobile Learning!

Look for more Learning 2009 blog postings – until then – to our US readers; Happy Thanksgiving!