Editor's note:

Hi,
If you’ve just come back from holiday, some breaking news: you’re dumber now than you were when you went away.

Don’t take it personally. The volume of information in the world doubles every five years, we’re all in a race to stay on top of it. This month we have a look at what learning professionals can do to help learners (and ourselves) keep up with the pace:

• What can we learn from how the brain deals with information, and what does it mean for how we design e-learning? Dr Itiel Dror explains in our podcast interview
• How can the theory of wikinomics help e-learning evolve at the speed of information? Steve Rayson explores in his book review
• How can ensure our e-learning makes a sustained impact on learners? Our free rapid guide explains
  

Plenty to help you keep up (and now there’s more for everyone else to catch up on – so you’re back in the race…).

If you’ve ideas for future newsletters, I’d love to hear from you. Get in touch at newsletter@kineo.com

Best,
Stephen
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1. Free rapid guide: Sustaining performance in rapid e-learning

Experienced learning designers realise that once e-learning is launched, the real work begins. This free rapid guide looks at some practical steps you can take and tools you can use to ensure that your efforts in defining, designing and developing rapid e-learning translates into sustained learner performance and tools that continue to evolve with your learners.
Get it here:

http://www.kineo.com/kineo-briefings/sustaining-performance-in-rapid-e-learning.html

Want more? Kineo's Rapid e-learning store provides a wide range of guides, templates, resources and support to enable your rapid e-learning success:
http://www.rapidelearningstore.com

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2. Collaborate to win: Wikinomics and e-learning

The whole world’s collaborating – and that raises big questions for learning professionals, explains Steve Rayson in his review of "Wikinomics”. This book is a great reflection on recent web 2.0 developments and makes four key points which raise important questions for learning professionals grappling with the new way of working, developing and collaborating in e-learning.

Read our review and help answer the questions here:

http://www.kineo.com/insights/the-wikinomics-of-learning-2.html

We at Kineo thrive on web 2.0 technologies applied to enhance and distribute learning rapidly and effectively. Find out how we can help you by emailing us at info@kineo.com

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3. The brain and e-learning: Audio interview with Dr Itiel Dror  

So we know there’s too much information out there, but what do we know about the human brain, and how much information it can handle? And what are we doing about it in our learning designs? Dr Itiel Dror has been gaining a reputation in the UK for his views on how of understanding the brain can make a difference to our approach to e-learning. Find out more in our interview:
http://www.kineo.com/audio-downloads/dr-itiel-dror-interview.html

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4. Kineo update: Workshop with Dr Dror in September  

Like what you heard in the podcast? Then take it further: Kineo’s pleased to present a one-day workshop with Dr Itiel Dror on September 27th in London, in association with Networked Learning. We look forward this highly engaging session and we encourage you to join us. Learn more here:
http://www.kineo.com/kineo-news-digest/workshop-with-dr-itiel-dror-september-27th.html

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5. Market update: Adios, Authorware….

It started as a summer romance in 1992, but it’s all come to an end. Steve Rayson notes the end of Authorware, and the rise of many replacements, in this month’s market update:
http://www.kineo.com/e-learning-market/e-learning-market-update-august-2007-.html
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6. Award season: Kineo’s growth earns business award nomination

There’s one pace of change we’re particularly tuned into at Kineo: our growth in the last two years. We’ve tripled in size, and added world-class clients such as BP, Google, Cable & Wireless and Marks & Spencer. This week we’re proud to announce we’ve been nominated for the Brighton and Hove Business Awards as “Best new kid on the block” (which makes those of us over 40 feel extremely down with the kids).

Find out more here:
http://www.kineo.com/kineo-press-releases/kineos-rapid-growth-earns-business-award-nomination.html


To learn more about how we can bring the fresh perspectives that earned us this nomination to your e-learning, get in touch at info@kineo.com.