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Purpose

We are a non-commercial community of decision-makers at the intersection of learning, technology, business, and design who

• Promote understanding and use of learning in industry and government worldwide
• Provide a forum for resolving issues impeding the progress of learning initiatives
  
• Identify and publicize new developments and emerging best practices

Background

Founded in 1998 as the Silicon Valley eLearning Network, three years later we morphed into the eLearningForum . In January 2004, we became Emergent Learning Forum, dedicated to pushing the envelope at the convergence of technology, learning, and business.. In March 2005, the group divided into two entities, the eLearning Forum and this, the Emergent Learning Forum.

Emergence

Emergence is what results when complex systems interact. It's up to us to mold Emergent Learning into a useful concept. My notion of Emergent Learning includes:

• New combinations
• Multidisciplinary
• Self-organizing
• Dynamic, evolving
• Often surprising

Examples? Think of what you get when you combine learning with other fields or technologies.

• learning + contextual collaboration
• learning + search + knowledge harvesting
• learning + workflow + business process modeling
• simulation + multiplayer environments

Status

We are forming an Advisory Board to provide direction. This website is in beta.

Links

Topic index of past sessions.

Archived video and audio presentations from Altus Learning Systems.

Archived meeting announcements.