Corporate Learning Trends & Innovations Free Conference

The world of eLearning is an interesting place. To let us all in on it, eLearning gurus George Siemens, Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the free online conference called Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008.

The conference runs November 17 (today!) through the 21st online. You can follow the conference blog, participate in the community site, or just participate in the sessions. It's not all learning specific either. For instance, one of the first sessions is an interview with one of my favorite authors, David Weinberger (Cluetrain Manifesto, Everything is Miscellaneous).

The conference draws thousands from within and without the industry, worldwide. It follows on the heels of last week's DevLearn, and I suspect it builds on the energy from that event, as well as making it easy for folks who didn't get to attend. After all, this one is free and can be participated in from your desk. It fits into most corporate training budgets at the moment.

Here are just a sampling of the speakers and topics over the next week:

• Alvaro Fernandez: Brain Fitness for Peak Health and Performance
• Kevin Wheeler: The Future of Talent
• Dave Wilkins - The Amazon Model and Forum Model - the intersection of LMS and Learning 2.0
• Nancy White - Online Social Architectures - Networks and Communities
• Marcia Conner and Jon Husband: ROI of Web Learning
• Allison Anderson: Corporate Learning Ecology

So many of the sessions are relative to more than just the learning industry, so I hope you'll join us for this free event. Follow the conference Twitter account (you can also tweet to it by direct messaging the account), and participate in any way that you can. Note that all sessions are on Pacific Coast Time.