Here is a list of some interesting and exciting people who work on the convergence of learning, technology and business...
Michael Allen: Michael is an international speaker and consultant to virtually every business sector over his more than thirty-five years of research and development in technology-based instruction. You may know him as the founder of Macromedia or from his book "Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning." He is currently CEO and Chairman of, what else, Allen Interactions Inc.
John Beck: Co-author of Got Game. A great book that explains, from a research-base, the characteristics of the gamer generation.
Pam Berman: Pam in an instructional designer who is concerned about assessiblity issues and has a web site that explains some concepts dealing with accessing web pages.
Regina Bobak: Regina is an instructional designer at the Institute for Interactive Technologies and is pursuing her Doctorate Nova. She is a distance educator as well as a distance learner. She is focused her dissertation on rapid prototyping. Interesting work.
Jane Bozarth : Jane is is North Carolina's self-appointed "E-Learning Goddess". Her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning. She is author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, published by Pfeiffer. A great book for practical tips on creating e-learning within a budget.
Kevin Kruse: Kevin is the founder of e-LearningGuru.com, a great site for learning about the e-learning industry from a well connected source. Good "go to" information. Kevin is also the author of a book titled "Technology-based Training" which contains good information about e-learning. I conduct interviews for Kevin and have posted a number on his site. They are some interesting people with great insights.
Tom King: Tom has a variety of skills and knowledge in the area of e-learning. He specializes in integration of AICC (CMI/LMS and PENS) and ADL SCORM (run-time content communication) specifications. Proficient with Adobe products including: Authorware, Breeze, Captivate, Dreamweaver and Flash. He also has a great blog with very handy information. You will want to check it out.
Stan Malcom: Stan is interested in connecting people to ideas, each other, and technology. He has a great template for RFPs on his web site.
Ryan Reilly: Ryan is a talented student who has created a really interesting game to teach basic factual knowledge...the Captials of the United States. Check out his game
Marc Rosenberg: Marc is a leader in the world of training, organizational learning, e-learning, knowledge management and performance improvement. I have worked with Marc at a conference and have had many great discussions with him concerning learning and e-learning. He is an asset to the field.
Will Thalheimer: Will is the founder of Work-Learning Research which is a firm that is bringing research-based knowledge to the learning-and-performance field. His work attempts to narrow the gap between research and practice. It is all based on good, solid research. A web location worth checking out.
Al Unrath: Al provides a variety of web-based services to a number of organizations as well as teaches others about the art and science of web design.
Greg Walsh : Greg is one of the most creative people I know. In fact he is an interactive designer and creativity consultant. Check out his web site for fun games an unique perspectives on web development, strawberry shortcakes and other assorted topics.
Steve Woodruff : Steve runs a blog and a company called impactiviti. His company is a consultancy specializing in training for the life sciences industry. Many good links and thoughts on this page. Worth taking a look.