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 Innovations in Communications Technology are bringing about a
significant change in our lives. The connected world of Web 2.0 has
given rise to great possibilities in providing and receiving information
at real-time speed.
The new age is all about videos, file sharing, social networks, video
sharing, social networking, professional networking, massively
multiplayer online games, video-chatting, sharing files and information
on various platforms, Mashups that combine one data piece with another,
web-services, cloud-computing, interactive multimedia, and Rich Internet
Applications.
Corporates are primary adopters of technologies that clearly show
profits in short and long term. Although Social Networking has not made
inroads yet, the day is not too far when inter-staff connections can be
harnessed to gain better information sharing and productivity. Corporate
TV and eLearning systems are examples of how businesses are utilizing
communication technologies to further their knowledge and learning
goals.
Media companies are switching to the Internet for broadcasting and
advertisement. Increase in Internet bandwidth across the globe is
providing impetus to this migration, where video communication is
becoming the defacto mode of information exchange.
Impacts on training and learning are no less. The traditional concepts
of a teacher being the “Sage on Stage”, and the concepts of a “Room”
where people come to learn, are being challenged. Knowledge is now
available in the “Cloud”. Conventional “Teaching” is giving way to a new
mode of “Learning”, where knowledge flows in all directions, not just
from top to bottom of a hierarchy. This is true not only for academic
learning, but also for corporate training. Corporate Universities have
yielded to On-Demand Learning; all enabled by the rapid innovations in
technology.
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