The eLearning Guild has just announced some changes to their benefits. If you’re not a member, it’s definitely time to consider it. Associate membership is free, and now you get access to all the articles they’ve written in their Learning Solutions journal. Regular membership and above costs, but has additional benefits.
The one I’m most thrilled with is that with any level of paid membership, you will have access to the research reports! They’ve been very good at getting top people (excluding yours truly, which must be an accident :) to write articles on the topics of the research report, and now they’ll be available to all members. I have to say that what I’ve read in the two reports I’ve been part of, Mobile Learning and Immersive Learning Simulations, from people like Jeff Johannigman, Clark Aldrich, David Metcalf, and Judy Brown, is top stuff.
They argue that they’re getting this good stuff out to thousands instead of just hundreds, and I certainly can be happy about that. If it leads to better elearning, we all win. They run great conferences (I’m at DevLearn as I write), have great benefits, and are a good group of people. Check it out!
It’s even better than I thought; you can get the reports for FREE! Sign up to be an associate member (free), fill out the survey for any report (free), and download that report (free). These are great reports, so it’s a great deal.