Have you heard of Web 2.0 yet ?

Collaboration is the new Web paradigm - and since elearning (and CBT) is not everyone's preferred way of acquiring new skills, the Web 2.0 model needs to be taken on board quickly.

The WWW has terrabytes of useful information on just about any topic. But finding the right information and assembling it into meaningful chunks is not easy. That is why eLearning - ie structured on-line content - can be so accessible and effective.

Unfortunately, force-feeding people with information does not oftenwork. They may not need the particular topic today. Or they may be focussed on something else. People just don't want to have irrelevant information stuffed down their throat !

So anything that makes it easier to collaborate with other people must be good. Learning has to evolve under the influence of new tools. These will include better ways of linking up with other learners, better ways of structuring information feeds, and better information-sifting tools.

The purpose of this blog is to provoke some comments on how corporations can add 'unstructured' web-based sources as a new learning tool.