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News
UK Training Contract Wins - January to March 2006 from TrainingZONE
Industry News from IT Skills Research
(Mar
06)
The e-Learning Marketplace Update from Just Learn (Mar 06)
IT Training Press Releases (Mar 06)
Global Knowledge Deploys CLO Dashboard (29 Mar 06)
ASTD Partners with Intrepid Learning Solutions (29 Mar 06)
Helius to Implement Corporate Training Technology for JCPenny
(29 Mar 06)
BackWeb Announces Integration Validation with Oracle (29 Mar 06)
Makau Corporation Offers List of Professional Development Courses
(27 Mar 06)
MindLeaders Partners with OCLC NetLibrary to Enhance Reference
Library (27 Mar 06)
Corporate University Xchange Presents Excellence Awards (23 Mar 06)
Washington Group Signs Enterprise Agreement with EduNeering
(23 Mar 06)
Cornerstone OnDemand Releases Cornerstone Compliance Management (20
Mar 06)
Cornerstone OnDemand Releases Dashboard Reporting (15 Mar 06)
Survey: Executives and Managers Stressed at Work (15 Mar 06)
Global Knowledge Acquires Azlan Training EMEA (14 Mar 06)
Brainshark and Karta Technologies win U.S. Army Contract (13 Mar 06)
Learn.com to Pay Organizations $15K to Switch to LearnCenter
(10 Mar 06)
Learn.com Releases LearnCenter 9.2 (10 Mar 06)
Makau Announces Benefits of Makau Learning Appliance (09 Mar 06)
IDC Predicts Growth Spurt for Workforce Performance Management
Market (09 Mar 06)
Latitude Consulting Upgrades Dealer Certification Solution for
Chrysler (08 Mar 06)
Distance Learning to Help Drive Enterprise Satellite Networks (07
Mar 06)
iLinc Communications and Hatsize Form Partnership (06 Mar 06)
Telstra Invests $67 Million in Training Agreement with Accenture
(03 Mar 06)
Kaplan Releases Demo Simulations with STT Trainer 4.2 (02 Mar 06)
National Institute of Corrections Renews Learn.com LMS Contract
(01 Mar 06)
Makau Announces LMS Version 3.0 Upgrade (01 Mar 06)
GeoLearning Launches WebCenter to Enhance Customer Service and
Technical Support (01 Mar 06)
The Latest on Workforce Race Relations (01 Mar 06)
Brinker International Selects GeoLearning for LMS Deployment
(27 Feb 06)
Simulation Trainer Enables Jo Ann Stores to Speed SAP (27 Feb 06)
USAID Selects GeoLearning’s GeoMaestro LMS Platform (23 Feb 06)
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Reviews and Current Trends
UK e-Learning - a Tale of Two Markets (Jan 06)
Kineo believes that we are seeing two very different and contrasting
trends taking place in the e-Learning market. In the technology side
of the market (LMS, LCMS and Virtual Classrooms), we are seeing
clear consolidation. By contrast, in the bespoke e-Learning space,
the market is becoming more fragmented than ever. Here, Kineo
analyses the trends.
©2005 Kineo
Learning by Numbers (Feb 06)
Learning and
Development's first major survey finds out where learning is
positioned in UK organisations, who's in charge and where budgets
are being spent.
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
University Solutions: Partnering for Real-World
Results (Mar 06)
The corporate world largely under-uses four-year universities and
community colleges as resources. The Chief Learning Officer
magazine Business Intelligence Board survey shows that almost half
of the companies surveyed have no relationship with a university,
and 62 percent of companies Bellevue University surveyed are not
satisfied with the relationship they do have. The challenge to
corporations is to learn how to tap university resources
successfully. Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Corporate Universities: What Works and What Doesn't
(Mar 06)
Strengthening their human capital is one of the top issues facing
chief executive officers, according to a recent survey of 500 CEOs
conducted by The Economist Intelligence unit. In fact, as one senior
executive from a large financial services firm said, "We need to
out-learn our competition in order to attract, retain and excite the
best talent in the industry." Why has human capital management
become such a central issue for senior executives?
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Keep your eyes on the performance management market (Mar 06)
Research conducted by Bersin & Associates over the past year is
starting to bring definition to the performance management market
and its significant potential. Although much of this information is
subject to change as the market solidifies, there’s one thing that’s
clear: The performance management market is going to grow rapidly
and have significant business impact in the coming year.
Workforce Performance Solutions,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Synchronous E-Learning Survey Results (Mar 06)
Earlier this year, Learning Circuits conducted a
survey on synchronous e-learning. We asked readers a series of
questions about their favorite features and solutions. Here's what
they had to say.
©2006 Learning Circuits
An Overview of the Canadian E-Learning Industry (Mar 06)
Canada has a thriving e-learning industry. The country has
more than 300 companies offering some combination of e-learning
technologies, services, and content. There are government programs
that support e-learning at both the federal and provincial levels,
as well as a host of universities, colleges, and school boards that
offer online courses, research, and publications. Here's a
preliminary view of the scope of the e-learning industry in Canada
using publicly available information from several sources.
©2006 Learning Circuits
Welcome to the 2006
Training Top 100 (Mar 06)
This special report is the fifth annual ranking of the top companies
of employee-sponsored workforce training and development. These 100
companies not only make sizable investments in their human assets,
they do so strategically and creatively. Inside the Top 100
companies, training is routinely tied to business objectives,
measured for return on investment and considered a competitive
advantage to the business each company is in. Many of the leaders of
these learning organizations sit at the table at the corporate
level; they speak the language of the business, and they make a
notable impact on it. It goes without saying that Top 100 companies
are committed to learning and performance improvement. The Top 100
accounts for more than $5 billion spent on training, 21,849
professional trainers and 5,193 training hours delivered in 2005.
The
following are available:
o
A 20-page chart outlining the metrics and programs of all 100
o
Top 10's in various categories
o
Stories about the Top 5 Companies:
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Booz Allen Hamilton Puts People First
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IBM - Suite Success
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Ernst and Young - Going Global
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Ritz-Carlton - Plug in and Perform
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Lockheed Martin - Flying High
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Missing Link? (Feb 06)
REPRISE
Aligning the training department with business goals is top priority
for 2006.
Training, ©2006 VNU Business
Media
(The
charts from the survey have been added.)
Knowledge Management Explained (Mar 05)
Knowledge is power, true – but only if it's harnessed and organized
and made into something more than just information. This distinction
between "information" and "knowledge" is where the field of
knowledge management comes in.
©2005
Brandon-Hall
How to Find SMEs (Jan 06)
People who
possess a special skill or knowledge of a particular subject area
are widely considered organizational assets—especially for training
managers and instructional designers. In fact, subject-matter
experts (SMEs) play integral roles in course design, development and
implementation because they solely possess the information that
training designers need for a project. SMEs can be exemplary
performers, supervisors or even the end users of the learning
solutions. However, identifying the right SMEs for a project is not
as simple as one might think. It is critical not only to find people
with the knowledge and skills necessary to create a course or
curriculum, but also to find people that want to participate in the
development process as well.
Training
Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
13 Ways to manage informal learning (Jan 06)
Informal learning is a
big deal. If you aren't thinking about it, you should be. It
probably accounts for about 80% of the learning that goes on in your
organisation. We are passionate about making learning available at
the point and time of need. If there's one thing you can do about
informal learning, it is to help ensure that the communications
channels remain open for informal learning to take place. We also
show how it can go wrong.
©2006 Kineo
What Are Proper Working Hours (Feb 06)
Sarah Fletcher asked training professionals for their views on the
TUC’s recent research claiming that five million workers in the UK
work unpaid and uncompensated overtime.
©2006 TrainingZONE
10 ways to execute your learning strategy (Feb 06)
Plan ahead, be flexible
and keep an eye on what's going on elsewhere to ensure an effective
learning strategy.
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
10 ways to ensure the best content for L&D (Mar 06)
To
ensure the best quality content for your programmes, always be one
step ahead and ready to realise changes in and outside the business.
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
Which Was First: Training or Relevance?
(Mar 06)
Back in my early classroom teaching days, I (Bob Mosher) used to
start a course by asking students why they were attending. I wanted
to know what they wanted to get out of the class. I was always
surprised how many would simply reply, “I have no idea. That’s why
I’m here. My office just purchased XYZ system, and I’m here to see
what it does. Then I’ll take that information back to my group, and
we can figure out what we want to do next.” In other words, training
was expected to precede relevance.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Targeting Learning to the Social Network
(Mar 06)
If teamwork is the key to success, how are we, as learning
professionals, focusing our training resources on intact work teams?
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
For Chief Learning Officers, Alignment is Key (Mar 06)
Chief learning officers and training
program leaders play an important role in the results culture
emerging in organizations. This evolution has inspired the latest
wave of learning programs — programs that lead directly to
performance results. The key to results is alignment: alignment of
intellectual capital and advancement of knowledge to strategic
goals. Training leaders who can show executives how the alignment of
education programs and learning events develops intellectual capital
toward the achievement of strategic, performance, and operational
goals have earned their place at the C-level table.
Techlearn Newsline,
©2006 Questex Media Group
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Seven ways to
market e-Learning (Jun 05)
Like any other product
or service, e-Learning needs marketing to attract customers, get
them to buy into it, and keep them coming back for more. Very few
people in the e-Learning industry are marketing professionals. So,
we need to a little learning. This paper from Kineo describes
seven marketing and implementation actions that should be made
immediately to achieve better results in e-Learning take up,
completion, satisfaction, and - sustainability.
©2005 Kineo
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Learning Media
Buyer Beware (Feb 06)
REPRISE
Shopping for an LMS can be difficult. Here's how to avoid buyer's
remorse.
Training,
©2006 VNU Business
Media
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tables and examples from the article have been added.)
50 Ideas for Free e-Learning (Dec 05)
Kineo has identified the
15 'must have' open source tools and 50 ways to
seriously reduce your training spend, including Blogger, Audacity
and Wink.
©2005 Kineo
e-Learning
- A Financial
and Strategic Perspective (Jan 06)
Institutions can consider different options in shaping a long-term
strategy for achieving acceptable financial returns from e-learning.
Educause Quarterly,
Volume 29 Number 1,
©2006 Educause
Serious Games
- Serious Business Applications (Feb 06)
A 20-page
investigation into the use of gaming as an effective training and
development tool by Kevin Corti, founder of PIXELearning. This paper introduces Games-Based Learning, investigates the potential benefits, compares this to e-Learning
and discusses some of the implementation issues.
©2006
PIXELearning
Simulation Software - Creating Training Simulations (Mar 06)
Technology-based training systems, such as e-learning and virtual
reality, have been gaining ground on conventional training
techniques during the past decade or so. In the past,
simulation-based learning was solely provided through expensive
workstations. However, today such workstations are becoming obsolete
and computer- and Web-based simulations are now the norm. Advances
in technology have made technology-based simulation training more
desirable and effective for many different skill areas and
industries. But perhaps—most importantly—technology-based simulation
training is attributed to increased information retention and
therefore, employees maintain the skills necessary to react
proficiently during critical situations as well as during their
everyday job responsibilities.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Digital Game-Based Learning (Mar 06)
Unexpectedly, proponents
of Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) now have everyone's attention.
This paper explains the combined weight of three factors that have
resulted in widespread public interest in games as learning tools.
Educause Quarterly,
Volume 29 Number 2,
©2006 Educause
Revealed - how to get a free iPod (Feb 06)
Podcasts have a place in
training, believes Clive Shepherd. So prepare your arguments to get
a free iPod.
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
Wikis and Blogs - Reaching New Heights of Knowledge Share (Feb 06)
Although wikis and blogs have been around for more than a decade,
they are just beginning to be regarded as valuable tools that can
offer substantial business benefits. For those who have ignored the
blog buzz during the past few years—even though that seems
impossible with blogs popping up everywhere on the Web—a Web log, or
blog, is a journal of sorts that is frequently updated, accessible
to users and tied to the purpose of the Web site. Today,
organizations sometimes use blogs to unite their workforces,
strengthen internal and external business relationships, improve
productivity through interactive information exchange and much more.
Below are some of the leading blog hosting services. While exploring
these service providers, be sure to keep your organization’s needs
in mind.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Driving Greater Value From an LMS (Mar 06)
Anyone who's been involved in the planning, selection and
implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling.
They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the
LMS hasn't delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted to
justify the investment.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Making your LMS Dance (Mar 06)
Elliott Masie says that it’s time for learning executives to have a
heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are
ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent
management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is
ready to have it step up from its early role as an enterprise
database of learning activities. Now, you want it to become an
engine to drive business and talent outcomes.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Wireless Wonders (Mar 06)
From a training perspective, wireless wonders create endless
possibilities for delivery of learning and performance content.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
E-Learning Curve - Embrace the fourth paradigm (Mar 06)
Empowered by collaboration tools,
learners are doing it for themselves, Clive Shepherd discovers.
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
What Lies Beyond e-Learning (Mar 06)
Just when we
thought we had e-learning all figured out, it’s changing again.
After years of experimentation and the irrational exuberance that
characterized the late 1990s, we find our views of e-learning more
sober and realistic. This is a good sign; we can make more rational
forecasts of how the field will evolve. It also presents some
challenges, and the direction we are heading may not be the path we
originally thought we were on.
©2006 Learning Circuits
Google tools to make learning work
(Mar 06)
As Google
continues to develop tools and applications, we see increasing
opportunities for their application to learning. Whether it’s
looking for answers to specific problems, integrating tools into low
cost blends or simply informal learning by browsing, there are some
great tools out there from Google.
©2006
Kineo
Blended Learning: Why Everything Old Is New Again, But Better (Mar
06)
Blended learning is a powerful training solution that combines
e-learning with a variety of other delivery methods for a superior
learning experience. This article reveals what makes blended
learning so powerful, and how to choose the right mix of delivery
methods for the best blend of skill enhancement and sustainability
to ensure a company's long-term competitive advantage.
©2006 Learning Circuits
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Case Studies and Projects
Refined Vision - Royal Dutch Shell (Feb 06)
Why
Royal Dutch Shell's head of leadership development is telling the
company's elite that you're never too senior to learn.
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
Issuing the Call for Learning at AT&T (Mar 06)
A merger is an ideal opportunity for a company to take a close look
at the effectiveness of its learning and development organization.
Unfortunately, the organizational climate at such a time is usually
not conducive to gauging said effectiveness in any reasonable way
because there is too much to do, too much to learn and ultimately
far too much to teach.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Sanofi-Aventis - Reaching New Heights Through Continuous Learning
(Mar 06)
As the world's third-largest pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis
continues to make advancements in the development of new medications
in the areas of oncology, the central nervous system, the
cardiovascular system, diabetes and internal medicine.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Manpower: A Multi-Faceted Approach Boosts Learning
(Mar 06)
For global staffing company Manpower, there are multiple sides to
development. There's the regional approach, and there's learning for
leadership. In the former, learning leaders re-create exact working
environments to effectively train their staffing specialists and
direct-hire experts to hit the ball out of the park that very first
day on the job.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Philips: Outsourcing Learning for Global Consistency (Mar 06)
Royal Philips
Electronics is one of the largest electronics companies in the world
with approximately 160,000 employees in more than 60 countries.
It considers learning to be a key contributor to employee
development.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Johnson & Johnson: A New Paradigm for Learning Systems Management
(Mar 06)
The
promise of an enterprise LMS is that by consolidating disparate
learning technologies into a single platform, you’re better able to
take control of your learning management, quality and costs.
According to a Bersin & Associates study, approximately 35 percent
of large companies have an enterprise LMS in place. However, some of
them are discovering that technology alone cannot make the promise
real. Johnson & Johnson was one of those companies.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
ADP - Training as an Integral Part of the Customer
Experience (Mar 06)
This case study discusses how ADP’s Major Account Services unit,
which serves more than 100,000 companies with products for HR and
payroll management, benefits administration, and taxes, views
training as an integral component of customer satisfaction and
retention. Training is conducted at 17 facilities throughout the
United States, as well as through virtual classes with live labs.
The Saba Learning Suite manages more than 100,000 registrations
annually and also handles scheduling, course assessments, course
delivery, and detailed reporting.
©2006 Bersin and
Associates
Plan your end-user training strategy before software roll-out (Mar
06)
Managers and IT departments often rush to deploy the latest and
greatest software without considering the need to train end-users in
its use. A scalable end-user training strategy will make your new
software deployment both a more cost effective and a happier
experience for everyone involved.
©1995- 2006 CNET Networks, Inc
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Measuring Education Value
Laying the Cornerstone: Alignment of
Learning (Mar 06)
The formula for success in learning and development is based on the
careful execution of three relatively simple concepts: assessment,
delivery and measurement. Assess the learner’s needs, deliver the
content and measure to see if it had impact.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Partners in Learning - BT Case Study (Dec 05)
Why
outsourcing its entire learning function in a $120 million deal will
let BT coordinate development, and help staff keep up with the
technology.
Learning and Development,
©2005 Human
Resources
The Emergence of Managed Learning Services
(Mar 06)
Educators have been using outside assistance to deliver learning
programs on subjects where they lack expertise in one manner or
another for as long as there have been teachers. Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Learning Outsourcing - it is not just for cost savings anymore (Mar
06)
Much
has been said about the pros and cons of learning outsourcing.
Corporate decision makers are rapidly adopting the practice, hoping
to fulfill the promise of "faster, better, and cheaper" performance.
However, I believe the business case is better illustrated by a more
detailed equation that goes way beyond just direct costs.
©2006
TrainingOutsorucing.com
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Instructor Topics
Enhancing PowerPoint Presentations with Add-Ins (Jan 06)
Microsoft PowerPoint has long held the top position as the leading
presentation software in the marketplace. And since PowerPoint holds
such a large share of the marketplace, there are literally thousands
of add-ins for almost everything you could possibly want to do to
improve your PowerPoint presentations. Here are some of the top
PowerPoint add-in vendors and their products that will perhaps make
your selection process somewhat easier.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Technology in the Classroom (Jan 06)
It’s rare to find a classroom without a computer in it these days no
matter what level the student’s education. Technology and education
go together like hands and gloves, particularly when one considers
the prevalent use of the Internet as a teaching tool—not just for
research and quick access to a wealth of information, but as an
enabler for virtual classrooms, etc. To make effective use of
technology in the classroom, there are a few things a trainer or
training manager might want to consider to maximize the experience.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Projector 101 (Feb 06)
Before you can give the ultimate presentation, you need the right
tools, which might include a combination of the following: a
projector and screen, electronic copy board, overhead projector,
visual presenters, dry-erase board, chalkboard, laser pointer and
other presentation accessories. Because there are so many tools that
can make an average presentation great, let’s look at some of the
top projectors in today’s marketplace.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Taking Presentations to the Next Level (Mar 06)
With right accessories, tools and technology, you can easily make an
average presentation great and a great presentation extraordinary.
Here are some of the top providers of projector screens,
whiteboards, dry-erase boards, chalkboards and other presentation
accessories.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Stop Death by PowerPoint (Mar 06)
Five presentation
secrets that coaches don't know.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Parkin Space: Why Trainers Need Selling Skills
(Mar 06)
Godfrey Parkin is baffled by business insistence that sales skills
training is considered to be relevant only for sales people.
©2006 TrainingZONE
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Education Administration
No articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Reality Bytes - Preparing for Performance Exams (Mar 06)
Times are changing and not just in regard to technology.
Certification exams are also evolving. Performance-based tests that
look not at whether a candidate can memorize and recall facts, but
how well the person can replicate actual tasks in a real-world
environment, are replacing traditional exams.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
HP - The Benefits of Continuous Learning (Mar 06)
In March, the Hewlett-Packard
Certified Professional Program in the Americas region will launch a
new Continuous Learning Initiative.
Certification
Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Cingular Wireless - Developing IT Expertise (Mar 06)
Cingular IT uses certification around the 19 WUP disciplines as a
strategic tool to enable employee growth, drive change and achieve
quality results.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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