Best you might've missed

A short best this holiday week. Also, I'll be out of the office from December 24th until January 3rd and won't be posting. I wish you all happy holidays and a happy new year!

Traditional training/business

Creating a Learning-Driven Culture. Keys to sustained competitive advantage are knowledge, learning processes, learning culture, and knowledge practice.

Instructional Design Models. An in-depth directory of Webpages on the various instructional design models.

Emergent learning

"Instant Messaging: Collaborative Tool or Educator's Nightmare?" This paper examines advantages and disadvantages to instant messaging in general and in education.

"Doctors Use Video Games to Hone Skills." Video games as training for surgeons in the private sector and military. (Thanks, BoingBoing.)

Technology

"Technology and Happiness." "Is it possible that technology, instead of liberating us, is holding us back? Is technological progress merely a treadmill, and if so, would we be happier if we stepped off of it?"