Learning to teach online:what do you think?
Someone emailed me today to ask what trends I thought were emerging that us trainer/consultant/wanderers should be taking notice of.
Two trends I have been noticing that are both scary and exciting to me are
- People are making knowledge and ideas available for free. This blog includes some of my trade secrets in the hope that they will be useful to others. But that is nothing compared to MIT publishing entire course curricula online or the sheer volume of free information you can get in wikipedia, youtube and other places;
- People are increasingly interacting, doing business and learning online. I did my entire masters degree online and yet even that experience was pretty mundane compared to the emerging opportunities that are emerging – youtube based videos, ebooks, Secondlife (yes – I still think we can do a lot of training in 3d worlds) and even mentoring by Skype and twitter.
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