Twitter for e-learning?

Hey folks, I found an interesting article on how Twitter (the free social networking site) could be used in an e-learning environment. It's as simple as an instructor setting up a Twitter account and having his students "follow" him. Then he can communicate with all students at once using tweets.

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg in using social media for instructional purposes.

You can read more about this here.

eLearning Predictions for 2009

The editor-in-chief of eLearn Magazine, Lisa Neal Gualtieri, has rounded up 31 authorities (including me) on e-learning and e-learning technologies to give their opinions on where e-learning is headed in 2009.

The overriding sentiment is that e-learning may be the silver lining on the cloud that is our current economic state in the world.

You can read more here! And thanks to Lisa for including me among such thought leaders.