NanoLearning

Every year the Gartner Group publishes it’s hype cycle chart for new technologies. I found the hype cycle for 2005 published here at the Gartner website so you can see what the cycle looks like. For the 2006 chart you must buy the research. I found it interesting to note the elements of NanoLearning that fit nicely on the hype cycle chart for 2006. They are:

• Collective Intelligence — This is a brand new entry. It refers to a decentralized group of people creating content. They specify “intellectual” content, and I think that would include learning content. You’d think they read our business plan! We allow the “wisdom of the crowds” to create learning media.
• Web 2.0 — The shift to user-generated and controlled content is at the heart of Web 2.0 (e.g. Flickr, Blogger, MySpace). At NanoLearning we’re shifting learning content generation from centralized structures to individuals, and groups of individuals.
• RSS Enterprise — The routine use of RSS in the enterprise. We support RSS feeds to notify users when NanoLearning has been changed or updated. So when your favorite NanoLearning on kanban’s in a JIT system gets updated, you will get a notification in your favorite RSS reader.

We’ll stop there, but we’re awefully proud that we’re on the same page as leading industry analysts.

This is the place where you will find all sorts of information from us about the development and progress of NanoLearning. Since it is a blog, we hope that you comment liberally. I can’t stress enough how important your ideas and suggestions are. We are not a huge faceless corporation; we read every email that comes through.

Right now NanoLearning is in a private beta test. Many features of the system are operational, and it’s possible to create some really great learning media with it. But we have lots more features in development. Of course all this is worth nothing if we don’t have a great community of people creating great learning content with it. That’s where you come in too.

Welcome to the blog!