I was also honored to present the first session of the day over eLearning trends and tools at the 2009 State of Texas DIR E-Learning Forum. For those who missed the presentation or would just like to see it again, I've added it here. I must give credit to Dr. Mark David Milliron for the trends table I saw in one of his own presentations as well as inspiration for structuring the presentation. Be sure to visit SlideShare directly to see my notes and sources.

Hiram Kuykendall, CTO of MicroAssist first gave this presentation during the Elearning Symposium 2008.

Clive Shepherd' short, free course provides subject experts and many others with the skills needed to design engaging, rapid e-learning materials for use in the workplace.  You can go take the course at

http://www.kineolearning.com/60minutemasters/

To motivate, I've included my notes from Module 1. 

Module 1 - Preparation "More haste, less speed"

Establishing Goals

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it has produced videos for YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/FHAHUD) and Facebook