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E-Learning Market Briefing from Kineo (Jun 06)
Typically the dog days of summer are associated with a dog of a
sales pipeline for e-learning companies. This summer is shaping up
very differently. An unusually high degree of contract awards is
underway, and avid market watcher Steve Rayson has taken his eye off
the football (World Cup Soccer) for just long enough to bring you
the edited highlights in this month’s market update.
©2006 Kineo
Industry News from IT Skills Research (Jun 06)
IT Training Press Releases (Jun 06)
US Market Will Increase 40 Percent for Workforce Performance
Management (May 19)
Avilar Customer careLearning Surpasses 1 Million Course
RegistrationS (Jun 1)
Hatsize Announces TrueLab Interoperability with Interwise Connect
v7.0 (Jun 1)
Vantage Learning Posts Highest-Ever Transaction Volume in a Month
(Jun 2)
Security Finance Renews Partnership with Learn.com (Jun 2)
Previsor Acquires Brainbench (Jun 2)
Accenture to Help Unilever Transform HR Operations (Jun 6)
Instructional Design - Neil Lasher reveals the secrets of success
(Jun 7)
LearnKey Selected by Fiji Institute of Technology and Fiji Rugby
Union (Jun 7)
Horizon Wimba Announces Partnership with ANGEL Learning (Jun 9)
Trivantis Forms Relationship with Federal Government (Jun 9)
HRsmart Launches Latest Version of Its Learning Management Solution
(Jun 9)
NARA Selects The Learn.com LearnCenter (Jun 9)
Survey - Business Return on Rewards Investment Hard to Determine
(Jun 13)
Thomson Prometric Announces Agreement with UIMM (Jun 14)
Plateau Systems Unveils Plateau OnDemand (Jun 14)
British Organizations Target Grey Workers (Jun 14)
Australia's Tabcorp Takes a Chance with SumTotal (Jun 16)
Isuzu Re-Signs With Raytheon for Outsourced Learning Services (Jun
19)
Raytheon Delivers Managed Learning Services for Pfizer (Jun 19)
Zaxby's Selects Meridian KSI as LMS Partner (Jun 19)
GeoLearning and GoLearn Renew Contract (Jun 19)
Columbian Chemicals Company Selects Websoft’s KnowledgeBridge (Jun
19)
RWD Technologies Launches ePost (Jun 19)
Microsoft Certified Architect goes live (Jun 20)
Novell offers portable training for SUSE Linux Enterprise (Jun 23)
Chalk Releases chalkboard LCMS v.3.9 (Jun 23)
SumTotal Partners with HP to Deploy LMS in China (Jun 23)
Learn.com Releases LearnCenter v9.3 (Jun 23)
Bersin & Associates Announces Partnership with GoLearn (Jun 23)
Study - Accenture Releases High-Performance Workforce Research
(Jun 26)
Foote Partners Launches New IT Workforce Advisory (Jun 26)
Top 20 Companies in the Training Outsourcing Industry in 2006 (Jun
28)
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Reviews and Current Trends
The State of Training and Development: More Spending, More Scrutiny
(May 06)
As investment
in training continues to rise, with resources migrating away from
in-house programs, employers are demanding better accounting to
ensure that their development dollars go toward furthering strategic
goals and bolstering the bottom line. Technology and global
competition, the two driving forces of economic change in today’s
business world, haven’t bypassed the once-staid world of training
and development.
©2006 Workforce
Management, May 2006
Lessons in Employment: A Tale of Two Countries (Jun 06)
What makes a country’s workforce employable, and what doesn’t? To
figure this out, we should consider the cases of two nations who
have been in the news a good deal lately for events that ultimately
boil down to employment (or lack thereof).
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Work and the Web are Converging (Jun 06)
Trends often emerge in California before jumping to the
East Coast and spreading to the rest of the United States . Surfing,
Jacuzzis, skateboarding, designer pizza, varietal wines, organic
produce, and the Whole Earth Catalog are a few examples. Now add to
that list blogs, mash-ups, and innovation on the web.
Learning Circuits,
©2006 ASTD
Cultural Adaptation - necessity for global e-learning (Jun 06)
eLearning seems
the perfect answer to today’s business needs, especially for large
global businesses who have to train and retrain people constantly
across national boundaries. The technology is there and so is the
knowledge. But it’s not working well. Although most countries are
increasing their use of e-learning, growing evidence shows that the
learners are not happy.
©2006
LiNE Zine
E-learning trends according to Google (Jun 06)
With
the new Google Trends, you can start doing your own research.
©2006
Kineo.co.uk
Corporate Learning Trends You Can Use (Jun 06)
On the surface, trends
and business are a perfect fit. But if the content isn't relevant,
corporate learning trends can mislead businesses. Trends are
notoriously fickle, but the Corporate University Xchange has come up
with several corporate learning trends using best practice
information gleaned from research and requests from their clients
that bear consideration.
CLO Executive
Briefings,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Selecting an Instructional Designer (Jan - May 06)
If you are looking for
an easy way to identify quality instructional designers from a stack
of resumes quickly, you are in luck. This four-part series of
articles describe little-known attributes squirreled away in those
resumes that recruiters and training managers can use to find the
diamonds in the rough. First, there's the
Challenges, then the
Importance, then the
Quality Point Checklist, and finally the
Shortlist Pitfalls.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing.
Learning Strategy Master Plan (Feb-Jun 06)
The
elusive search for the holy grail of learning and development has
always been the creation of a learning organisation. So how do
organisations get there?
Kineo
consultants have seen all the successful learning strategies in
practice. Following the ASTD framework, here are four briefings on
Alignment,
Effectiveness,
Efficiency and
Sustainability (this last one just added).
©2006 Kineo
Building an Employer Brand through Investments in Learning (Jun 06)
As
the talent pool dries up for many organisations, it becomes even
more important to build a strong employer brand that will get the
attention of future recruits.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Semantics (Jun 06)
Let learning remain
learning. Don't call it Learning 2.0, or worse yet, "Next Learning".
You probably don't want the title CL2.0.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Are You a Strong or Weak Leadership Link? (Jun 06)
Don't allow yourself to become the victim of an organisational
culture that does not recognise the contributions of the CLO and the
learning and development function.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Implementing Learning-How-to-Learn Strategies (Jun 06)
How can a learning organization facilitate learning? Perhaps the
answer is as simple as returning to the fundamentals of education,
which focus the learner on the "how" of learning.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Misinformation Management: Measuring Workforce Knowledge (Jun 06)
Regardless of industry, the objective of education is to support the
business operation. However, as businesses grow, many organizations
track training milestones without tracking direct improvements to
the business.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
From CLO to Consultant: New Career Opportunities (Jun 06)
Many CLOs and other learning professionals who become fed up with
the bureaucracies of the corporate environment pursue independent
consulting. However, building a successful consulting practice is
not as easy as it looks.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Ethics Training and Axiology (Jun 06)
Now that two
bigwigs have been convicted in the Enron scandal, a landslide of
corporate ethics programs will probably follow, and that’s not a bad
thing. Yet, ethics is not always easy to teach, because it
essentially deals with an individual’s right and wrong actions.
Circumstances and corresponding responses and behaviors can be
subjective and might depend on many factors including an
individual’s upbringing, personal value system and life experiences.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Social-Network Analysis: Is It the Next Big Thing? (Jun 06)
There is a growing recognition that what makes employees successful
at work is their personal expertise combined with their networks of
professionals inside and outside the organisation.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Retaining Career Moms - The Implementation of Telework Programs (Jun
06)
Juggling a full-time
job, family obligations as well as the everyday responsibilities of
parenting can be demanding for working mothers, especially during
the summer while their children are out of school. In fact,
according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey of more than 600
women employed full-time with children under the age of 18 living at
home, one in four working moms report that they are dissatisfied
with their work-life balance and are actively seeking jobs that will
provide them with more flexibility. Furthermore, the survey found
that 52 percent of respondents said they are willing to take a pay
cut to spend time with their children. Considering that career moms
make up a substantial proportion of the U.S. labor force, many
organizations are embracing telework as a means to stay competitive
in today's expanding global economy, attract and retain top talent
and boost employee performance.
Workforce
Performance Solutions,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Putting the Real World into IT Training (Jun 06)
“Why
did you get into training? If it was to train, then you can’t go
wrong. But if it was to help people learn, change and achieve new
results then you
ought to be
aware of a problem – a problem that can be conversely viewed as an
opportunity for you to get ahead of the competition.”
©2006 The Fourth
Level
Global Development (Jun 06)
How
do multinationals ensure that effective training for staff across
the world also meets local needs?
Learning and Development,
©2006 Human
Resources
How to Make Technical Training Stick (Jun 06)
The number of
subjects that an employee can be trained on is virtually limitless,
but some subjects offer more training challenges than others. The
exact and dry nature of technical training, for instance, offers
trainers a real challenge: How do you make information that’s not
inherently sexy or exciting stick? Offering trainees entertaining,
focused content interspersed with frequent breaks can help employees
retain technical information.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Competencies for the Successful Training Manager (Jun 06)
What makes a good
training manager? The answer could vary considerably from industry
to industry and from academic organization to corporate company. But
professionalism, the ability to establish a rapport with a diverse
training audience and a high tolerance for ambiguity and change are
competencies likely to increase effectiveness across the board.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Providing Learning for New Technical Leaders Challenging (Jun 06)
It's probably not
surprising that when developing learning interventions to help
technical professionals transition into new positions as leaders,
much of the development focus is in the soft-skill arena. According
to Mary Ann Masarech, director of Employee Alignment Strategies,
BlessingWhite, Inc., that's exactly the case.
CLO Executive
Briefings,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Media Matters (May 06)
What’s on the record? When it comes to media relations, make sure
managers know the rules of the game.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
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Learning Media
Podcasting Legal Guide - Rules for the Revolution (Mar 06)
The purpose of this Guide is to
provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues
specific to podcasting.
©2006 Creative Commons
Interviews with LMS Executives (Apr 06)
Elliott Masie is
pleased to present 18 interviews with the Senior Executives of
Learning Management Systems companies. These 20 minute audio
interviews with leading LMS and LCMS companies were conducted during
the LMS User Group on 6-7 April. PDF versions are also given.
©2006 Creative Commons
An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning
(May 06)
The potential of digital game-based learning remains largely
unrealized, in part because designers of "edutainment" games have
never understood how and why games are effective and how to align
curriculum with the game world without "sucking the fun out" of the
games (according to Marc Prensky). This has led some to believe that
educators and instructional designers should never be allowed near a
game. The failures of the edutainment industry largely result from
poorly understood theory and a lack of alignment between the worlds
of education and games. Games succeed precisely because they employ
sound pedagogical approaches such as situated cognition, cognitive
disequilibrium, and scaffolding to teach what is needed to succeed
in the game. By examining the underlying principles of games and
aligning them with educational theory and learning outcomes, it IS
possible to create effective blended game-based learning.
Instructional design is ideally positioned to guide this process.
This presentation provides an overview of some of the theories that
underlie games AND effective learning and explains how to align
these two worlds.
©2006
Richard Van Eck
Simulation - Even Better Than the Real Thing? (Jun 06)
Virtual training can net your organization real-life, tangible
results. Is there a simulation format that’s compatible with your
training goals? And how do you know what you need?
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
So Happy Together (May 06)
Collaboration tools unite the right people with the right
technologies. But do you know what you need?
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology (Jun 06)
Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people
together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and
development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people
learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Not Without Purpose (Jun 06)
Studies find that workers get 80 percent of their job know-how
informally. The choice is whether they do it well or do it poorly.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Blended Learning Opportunities (Jun 06)
Blended Learning Opportunities by noted experts on blended learning,
Dr. Allison Rossett and her colleague Rebecca Vaughn Frazee,
explores the common components of blended learning and how
organizations are preparing to best use this new learning method.
©2006
American Management Association
Use Blended Learning to Produce Better Business Performance (Jun 06)
“I hear and I
forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Even thousands
of years ago, Chinese philosopher Confucius understood something
about the learning capabilities of the human mind. Times and
training methods have changed since Confucius’ day. Reading chapters
from a textbook or participating in online activities have become
the most popular and common ways to train. Although these types of
learning can cover the basics, they do not always have the ability
to delve into content in-depth or cover real-world situations.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
E-Learning in 2012 (Jun 06)
Kineo’s Mark Harrison recently presented his vision of e-learning in
2012 to a rapt audience at an e-learning network event. Guess what?
The future is already here. Mark points out that back in 2000,
nearly all of the technologies and breakthroughs that are core to
e-learning today were already available. The trick is, can you find
them? Will you make it into the ‘informal learning wonderland’ or be
stuck in a hall of mirrors? This Macromedia Breeze presentation is
16 minutes long. And you don't need to look at it all in one go, as
Breeze has a skip forward and back option in its standard
navigation, so you don't have listen to every screen. Just go back
and forward to the bits that take your fancy even if the audio is
playing. Ideal if you want a second view.
©2006 Kineo
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Case Studies and Projects
The American Way (May 06)
In the new feature Safety First, Training looks at how
companies ensure safety through training. This month, American
Airlines takes us through its emergency procedures.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Assessment Tool Helps Hospital Conquer Challenges (Jun 06)
CPP's personality indicator improves employee satisfaction and
retention.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Prudential Financial: Growing Money and Learning Efficiency (Jun 06)
The Prudential Financial slogan
"Growing and Protecting your Wealth" parallels the company's stance
on learning.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Keeping Ahead of the Competition (Jun 06)
In 2005, WestNet
streamlined its process to develop and publish learning products by
creating a single source of content.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Chelsea at cutting edge of e-Learning (Jun 06)
The
Chelsea is the UK's sixth largest building society, headquartered in
Cheltenham with a 34-strong branch network principally located in
southern England and a workforce approaching 1000 employees.
E-learning has been an integral part of Chelsea's training and
development portfolio for the past six years and is fundamental to
business success according to Jeff Farish, head of staff
development. ©2006 The Training Foundation
Training the Extended Enterprise (Jun 06)
Learn how NCR, recognized as one of the nation’s leading learning
organizations, has leveraged shared services and technologies,
transitioned to online learning, and adapted a single LMS to meet
diverse learner and business needs.
©2006 Bersin & Associates
Case Study: Autodesk Bolsters Its Channel Partner
Training (Jun 06)
To improve the performance of its channel partners,
Autodesk Inc. built a Web-based support tool and tapped Intrepid
Learning Solutions to provide content and training expertise.
Learning
Circuits,
©2006 ASTD
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Measuring Education Value
Curricula and Evaluation: Maximizing Results (Jun 06)
Without the synergy of curricula and evaluation, true strategic
learning organizations are falling short of expected results.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Techniques and Best Practices for Measuring Training Effectiveness
(Jun 06)
If you want to quantify the
business benefit of training,
you must collect quantitative data upfront.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Evaluating the Evaluation of Training (Jun 06)
Most trainers are
good at what they do. Their evaluations at the end of a workshop are
consistently high and for good reasons. They typically design solid
and well-paced workshops. They nicely mix lecture and exercises.
Handouts are provided both to illustrate and to use for later
review. Above all, the presenters are experienced and effective.
They are adept at adapting to work with different audiences or group
chemistry. They know how to handle deflective or argumentative
employees. But there is one area even the best-designed courses and
the most-effective trainers cannot overcome: the application of the
training.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Benchmarking your Learning Organization - How and why (Jun 06)
By comparing your organization to relevant measures, benchmarking
will identify where you are strong, where you are weak, and
specifically where you can focus to improve your operations.
©2006 Bersin & Associates
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Six Ways to Close the Outsourcing "Execution Gap" (May 06)
Outsourcing sounds great. But those companies that have taken the
outsourcing plunge have found that reality is more complicated than
theory. . You run into what we call the "execution gap," the
difference between what needs to get done and what actually does get
done.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
‘Can Do’ Spirit Invades Training (Jun 06)
Companies worldwide are continuing to discover new benefits of
outsourcing one or more of their training processes.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Multi-Sourcing: Achieving Growth and Agility (Jun 06)
The practice of outsourcing training is following well-established
patterns in other areas, such as payroll, customer service and IT.
So today, the question a business-savvy training executive should
ask is not, "Do we outsource?" but rather, "What should we
outsource?".
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Solving the Offshoring Dilemma (Jun 06)
The debate over the best way to benefit from offshoring corporate
functions continues to rage.
T+D Magazine,
©2006 ASTD
Training Outsourcing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Jun 06)
Over the years, providing
high-quality training to employees has been somewhat problematic to
many companies. Most large organizations, sooner or later, will need
to outsource the design and development of training programs.
ASTD Links, ©2006
ASTD
ACS Rocks the Training Outsourcing World with Intellinex Acquisition
(Jun 06)
The recent acquisition
by Affiliated Computer Services of Ernst and Young's Intellinex
Learning Services business will create a welcomed new powerhouse in
the marketplace for human capital and training outsourcing services.
Indeed, it has already created a buzz in the training outsourcing
industry that we haven't heard in quite some time. ©2006
TrainingOutsourcing.com
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Training Professional
Topics
The Lost Art of Presentations (Jun 06)
When speaking, be brief. It makes for a good presentation, and good
presentations drive sales. It’s just one lesson in the lost art of
presenting.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Top Time Traps and How to Overcome Them (Jun 06)
Many professionals face this common dilemma each day: Too much work
to do and too little time in which to do it. To work more
efficiently, make sure you’re not succumbing to the following time
traps.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Overhead Projectors: Training Through Transparencies (Jun 06)
Although the liquid crystal display
(LCD) projector is becoming the presentation-tool of choice,
overhead projectors are still considered one of the most popular
presentation tools in today’s marketplace. Like LCD or digital light
processing (DLP) projectors, overhead projectors offer many
advantages while giving presentations, especially the ability to
modify transparencies mid-presentation. With overhead projectors
trainers can highlight important points with a transparency pen,
write on blank acetate film similar to a chalkboard, disclose
information progressively with an opaque cover, modify the sequence
of training material to accommodate audience questions and transfer
virtually any type of content to a transparency. In addition,
transparency materials are relatively inexpensive and easy to
prepare.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Design Engaging Training Materials with Desktop Publishing
Software (Jun 06)
The design and accuracy of training
materials is critical for learner buy in, engagement and knowledge
retention. In fact, dull, lifeless training materials can actually
encourage passive learning. Instructional designers use many
different processes and software to design training materials
including: workbooks, newsletters, presentation aides, technical
manuals, etc. Desktop publishing software can help instructional
designers put “punch” into their training material design. However,
it is critical that they not lose sight of their targeted audience
because overly cluttered, elaborate layouts and fonts can negatively
affect learners as well. Ideally, desktop publishing software should
aid instructional designers in the design process—making it easy and
fast. Let’s look at the capabilities and special features of some of
the top desktop publishing software applications in the marketplace.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Putting Training and Learning on Paper (Jun 06)
Training
organizations need to create and share information in an efficient,
cost-effective and reliable manner for their employees on a regular
basis, and information is passed on in many different ways—through
instructor-led sessions, e-learning, simulations, blended learning,
etc. For instructor-led sessions, handouts, manuals, books, hard
copies of PowerPoint presentations, transparencies and more are all
needed to support effective learning.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Building Training via Content Providers (Jun 06)
Many factors lead
learning and development organizations to seek out additional
training from content providers. Some of the most common factors
include limited internal resources in terms of cost, IT
infrastructure and the size and proficiency of an organization’s
training and development team — specifically if an organization
employs instructional designers. In addition, organizations commonly
deploy learning initiatives deemed generic using external providers
because the content is comprehensive and meets the organizational
requirements to increase their employees’ skills.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Seven Habits of Truly Unique Trainers (Jun 06)
There are many
characteristics that make a good trainer just like being a good
employee—things such as being on time, being prepared, doing your
job, etc. Those things just make a good trainer. If you want to be a
unique trainer, someone who is outstanding, well thought of and
special, then you want to know and practice the seven habits of
truly unique trainers.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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Education Administration
No
articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Certification Evolution: Job-Role Certifications for Your Future
(Jun 06)
Certifications have evolved from vendor-driven programs to
industry- and customer-driven specialties that span across different
technologies, disciplines and vendors. As this evolution continues,
which certifications will fade, which will keep going strong, and
which will be the must-have certs of the future?
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Must-Have Non-Technical Skills for IT Pros (Jun 06)
IT professionals today need more than technology skills to graduate
into managerial roles. It takes a combination of soft skills,
business savvy and project management expertise to move up in the IT
sector.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Cisco: A Wealth of Certification Resources (Jun 06)
The widely respected Cisco career certifications can be a valuable
addition to any network professional's credentials. With more than
700,000 certifications issued to date, Cisco Systems offers a wealth
of resources to support continuing success.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Hitachi Data Systems Certified Storage Professional 2006 Program
(Jun 06)
In January, Hitachi Data Systems introduced its Certified Storage
Professional 2006 Program. The program is designed to validate the
skills and knowledge of Hitachi Data Systems partners, customers and
personnel in storage architecture, implementation and administration
of the company's products and technology.
Certification Magazine,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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