With the deployment of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online within Office 365, SharePoint is currently undergoing a renaissance. We've always known that it's a great system for storing documents in, but use for wider collaboration in the enterprise is increasing in leaps and bounds. Most organizations have SharePoint and most of these are looking to how we can expand its use. We use SharePoint heavily within my company and I'm keen to learn how we can use it better. I'm personally looking forward to the European SharePoint Conference to increase my own learning in SharePoint and to meet and share experiences with others.

My main area of interest is in using SharePoint for learning and assessments. With the realization that most learning in corporate settings is done informally and during work rather than in formal training sessions, use of SharePoint to encourage, support and facilitate learning is growing fast. I'm speaking at the conference about measuring social learning with assessments and will update you on how assessments can helpful in SharePoint to support formal and informal learning, and for compliance. I'll also be explaining some recent psychological research which shows that answering questions on something helps you retain it better for the long term than simply studying something - and so why including knowledge-check or other quizzes with learning material makes that learning material more likely to be retained.

I hope many of you will come to my session at the European SharePoint Conference, and in the meantime you can catch up with me and the world of SharePoint and Assessments at my blog http://blog.sharepointlearn.com.