I had an interesting revelation recently. I am a member of the Australian Institute of Training & Development and we had a guest speaker (an exceptionally good one I must say -thanks again Anne) talking about Web 2.0. Early in the talk we were asked by show of hands who, has a blog,  uses Flickr, uses Delicious, use a wiki, subscribe to podcasts, use an aggregator, mashes-up and who can describe what RSS does (in plain English).

In a group of around 40 people I found myself one of a small number who could raise their hand for each of these questions. Then came the revelation. 10 weeks ago I would not have been able to raise my hand for one of them!!!!! I had become an e-Learner!!!!!

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I thought I should revisit an earlier post on this topic where I left my friend scratching his head about e-learning in Energy Australia. We do have a number of computer based courses that staff are required to complete. CBT programs are used for induction training, statutory type training and several other HR type packages. Our main training group are presently developing some interactive web based programs for our electrical field staff and they look quite promising. Otherwise, the majority of our internal training is competency based and still relies on the “chalk and talk” methodology.