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News
Industry News from IT Skills Research (Sep 06)
E-Learning Market Briefing from
Kineo (Sep 06)
The e-Learning Marketplace Update from Just Learn (Sep 06)
IT Training Press Releases (Sep 06)
Potted History to AdVal's Woes (Sep 06)
QFT success with dominKnow LCMS (Aug 06)
Stanford Hospital & Clinics Taps SumTotal's Enterprise Software (Aug
30)
Upstream Chooses Learn.com Product for Call Center Training (Aug 31)
Study - Climbing Corporate Ladder in Stilettos Trickier Than Ever
(Sep 6)
Fujifilm Partners with Chalk for E-Learning Solution (Sep 6)
Thomson Prometric Will Provide Access to Testing on Behalf of
Department of Defense (Sep 13)
Mercer HR Teams With Planet Productions on Global Learning
Initiative (Sep 14)
Oreck Chooses GeoLearning Product to Clean Up, Streamline Enterprise
Learning (Sep 14)
Eschelon Telecom Chooses Learn.Com Product to Centralize Training,
Bridge Geography Gap (Sep 14)
Survey - One in Three Employees Never Asked for Advice (Sep 15)
With SumTotal, Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Supercharges Learning and
Development (Sep 15)
SumTotal Manages Learning for European Directory Provider (Sep 18)
Pearson Government Solutions Supports Department of Health and Human
Services with SumTotal (Sep 18)
Ajilon Professional Staffing Selects GeoLearning to Drive Strategic
Blended Learning Initiative (Sep 19)
Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management 9.0 Wins AICC
Certification (Sep 19)
Samsung Selects Chalks Chalkboard LCMS to Facilitate E-Learning
Portal (Sep 20)
New White Papers Reveal Dual Impacts of Misinformation, Misleading
Learning Analytics (Sep 20)
Eedo Knowledgeware Helps Lufthansa Go Extra Mile (Sep 20)
South Carolina Selects GeoLearnings Hosted LMS Suite for E-Learning
Contract (Sep 20)
New Jersey Foster and Adoptive Family Services Chooses Learn.com
Product to Train Foster Parents (Sep 21)
Health Quest Selects GeoLearning LMS in Four-Year Managed Learning
Services Contract (Sep 25)
RUAN Transportation Selects GeoLearning to Drive Strategic
Management Training (Sep 26)
Amedisys Inc. Implements Learn.com LearnCenter to Power National
Compliance Training, Career Development (Sep 26)
LearnKey Introduces Online Medical Training Programs (Sep 27)
Blanchard Offers Solutions for Providing High-Quality Learning
Outside Classroom (Sep 27)
Oil Sands Labor Skills Shortage Eased at Shell Canada's Scotford
Upgrader with dominKnow E-learning Software (Sep 28)
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Reviews and Current Trends
Channel Partner Training - Expertus Survey Results (Aug 06)
Survey: Almost 25
percent of enterprises plan to spend more than $500,000 on channel
partner training in 2007. Expertus, a provider of strategic training
outsourcing services, and TrainingOutsourcing.com, a company that
offers guidance and consulting to buyers and sellers of outsourcing
services, have announced the results of the first of six surveys
designed to provide market data on all aspects of today’s corporate
training challenges.
©2006 Expertus
Market Monitor 2006 Q2 (from IT Skills Research) - Sep 06
© IT Skills
Research Programme 1998-2006, last modified 01 Sep 2006
Five Reasons Why Training and HR Must Work More Closely Together
(Sep 06)
Important talent management and employment issues require support
and coordination from both training and HR.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Reconsider Meetings (Sep 06)
Let
me make a passionate case for us to reconsider the culture and
design of our meetings.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Social Learning Arrives: Is Your Organization Ready?
(Sep 06)
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Evolution of the Trainer (Sep 06)
The pages of T+D
have chronicled the dynamic evolution from trainer to business
partner. T+D,
©2006 ASTD
Training Tools Evolve into Sophisticated Technical Devices (Sep 06)
With the movement of
learning into the strategic arena, there is a rich future for the
inventors and suppliers of training tools. T+D,
©2006 ASTD
E-Learning in the Workplace (Sep 06)
What happened over the last decade
can best be described as a series of e-learning innovations that
have reshaped the learning landscape.
T+D,
©2006 ASTD
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Training
Manager/Director Development
It's Hard to Leave (Sep 06)
None of the former CEOs whom I've worked with, however, have any
desire to just sleep late, live on the beach, improve their golf
scores and play all day.
Workforce Performance Solutions,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Motivating remote workers (Aug 06)
Darren
Ging recently asked the Any Answers forum for tips on communicating
with non-office based workers; in this article Stephen Walker,
Director of Motivation Matters shares his methods for managing the
communication gap. HR
Zone 21-Aug-06
©2006 TrainingZONE
Training Targets Frontline Managers (Sep 06)
Management training is making a
strong comeback in the workplace.
T+D,
©2006 ASTD
Education for a Technical Workforce (Sep 06)
Technical workers generally have to possess extremely sophisticated
and specialized skills in order to succeed. So what type of
workforce education works best for them? Equally sophisticated and
specialized learning programs. Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Coping with Cultural Barriers to Training (Aug 06)
Professionals involved
with the creation and delivery of training in international
enterprises inevitably will run up against the issue of cultural
differences. For instance, many in the learning and development
profession have discovered a general resistance among European
workers to e-learning and computer-based training. How, then, does
one overcome that cultural barrier and provide those workers with
the training they need?
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Developing the Training Process (Sep 06)
One of the common
thoughts expressed in the training industry today is that employee
education should be a continual, planned process rather than just
several string-of-pearls learning events. Fair enough, but what
should the process look like? How should training be laid out to
maximize the development benefits for both the workforce and the
organization?
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Understanding the Workforce: Designing Targeted Training, Part 1
(Sep 06)
Successful organizations today understand that creating learning is
no longer just about education and training for the many — it is
about personalized learning for the individual.
CLOMedia,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Super-sizing Corporate Visions (Sep 06)
The market is a severe
taskmaster – it determines whether businesses remain central or
peripheral, successful or superfluous. Most estimates of market
trends are based on the continuity of familiarity, on a mixture of
two basics: demographic extrapolation and innovative technology.
Generally that factoring process has worked and often has been
sufficiently predictive to under-gird strategic visioning and
planning, but of late there are signs of major market shifts.
Moreover, they increasingly appear to be on a converging course and
are thus potentially powerful and disruptive. There are at least
five such major drivers.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Top 10 Strategies to
Market Training to your Workforce (Sep 06)
With the emergence of eLearning and our
reduced training budgets, we need well conceived training rollouts
and marketing strategies that get our programs fully utilized. In
this new age of training, you’ve probably found it necessary to hone
your marketing skills.
Marketing and training aren’t new to each
other. The top training departments in the largest corporations in
the world view marketing as an essential ingredient in their
training success.
Training Growth Innovations,
©2006
TrainingOutsourcing.com
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Learning Media
Beyond e-Learning -
Practical Insights from the USA (May 06)
The findings of a (UK
Government Department) DTI mission to explore what American
organisations are currently doing with e-Learning.
©2006 Crown Copyright
Furnish Classrooms to Boost Knowledge Retention (Aug 06)
The underlying principle of feng shui is
to live in harmony with your environment so the chi (energy)
surrounding you works for you rather than against you. This theory,
although somewhat debatable, is applicable in the classroom, as
well. From workstations to chairs to the overall design — including
size and adaptability — all aspects of a training facility can
influence how much or little a trainee learns and retains. In fact,
a learning facility’s design might not only affect trainees’
intellectual capacity but their motivation to learn, as well.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Whiteboards Done Right (Sep 06)
Think you know
all there is to know about whiteboards? Think again. We take a look
at 14 of these new, interactive whiteboards that come fully loaded
with oversized screens.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU
Business Media
Digital Presenters: Projecting Crystal-Clear Presentations (Sep
06)
Digital presenters, also referred to as
visual presenters or multimedia presenters, are considered the
overhead projectors of the 21st century. By combining the display
given by an overhead projector with the detail of a digital video
camera, demonstrations such as threading a needle, using a
protractor or investigating tiny, opaque objects are professionally
and optimally displayed with digital presenters. In particular,
digital presenters allow 3-D objects to be projected onto a wall or
large screen, as well as be linked to a PC and video and sound
equipment to create interactivity, unlike their overhead projector
counterparts.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Training Tools (Sep 06)
This paper helps you understand what tools you need to acquire to
create or manage an e-learning program.
©2006
Alcorn, Ward and Partners, Inc
LCMS: Converging Content and Technology (Sep 06)
The LMS and the LCMS are two systems separated by more than simply
the letter "C." Learn about the benefits of management systems and
their integral position within learning departments.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Mobile Solutions
to Support Executive Performance (Sep 06)
IDC projects that the
global, mobile workforce will grow 20 percent through 2009, when the
number of employees who work from their vehicles, home offices,
hotels, airport lounges and customer sites will approach 1 billion.
As the mobile population grows, it is also growing more diverse,
encompassing an increasing number of knowledge workers and executive
staff. Why?
Workforce Performance Solutions,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Training Gets Mobile (Sep 06)
Cell
phone tucked at the shoulder with an iPod in the pocket waiting to
take over as soon as the call is finished. Sound familiar? These
kids today - well, it's not just kids anymore. MP3 players and PDAs
are the new training tools for companies that embrace, rather than
resist, their workers' favorite toys.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU
Business Media
To Podcast or To Not Podcast (Sep 06)
Podcasts are audio
recordings that are recorded and posted for download to iPods, MP3
players, and many other devices, including personal computers and
PDAs. If this were the total story on podcasts, they would be little
more than another medium for distributing recordings, much like
cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs or even streaming video from the Web. The
recording mechanism itself is only half of the story, however.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Beyond the Virtual Meeting (Sep 06)
Web conferencing
has changed the way learning is delivered.
T+D,
©2006 ASTD
Donald Clark on
e-Learning - audio (Sep 06)
If you’re going to talk
about e-learning, you have to talk about Donald Clark. Or better
still - talk to him. As the ex-CEO of Epic and current director of
Ufi, he has spent over 20 years at the forefront of e-learning and
technology in the UK. Sometimes champion of new technologies,
sometimes iconoclast, always engaging: teachers and trainers of a
sensitive nature may want to look away….
State of the
e-learning nation
Why blog?
What's wrong with
e-learning part 1: Old and grey designs
What's wrong with
e-learning part 2: When SMEs attack
7 Angles on Rapid E-learning (Sep 06)
The benefits of
rapid e-learning are clear enough: lower cost, more rapid response
to learner needs, faster development, and more control for subject
matter experts and training departments. What’s not so clear is what
you need to do to reap those benefits. In what could become murky
territory, Kineo shines a light on rapid e-learning.
©2006 Kineo.co.uk
Rapid E-Learning Tool
- Rapid eL (Sep 06)
Authoring
tools on their own will not make you an e-learning designer. If the
fundamentals aren’t in place, a tool won’t fix the problem.
Kineo continues its series of road testing rapid e-learning
authoring tools this month with a tour of Brianvisa’s Rapid eL tool.
©2006 Kineo.co.uk
Learning at the Moment of Need (Sep 06)
We need to use and
develop tools that allow the learning object to be contextually
"smart" and the more granular, the better. T+D,
©2006 ASTD
Playtime - Learning IT through Gaming (Oct 06)
Video game technology
has long been an educational playground for budding IT pros, so it's
a natural progression that educational video games would enter the
IT field. Learn how companies are developing video games to teach
employers technology skills.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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Case Studies and Projects
Technically Speaking (Sep 06)
Technology companies often have a high number of
engineers on staff, so it's important to make academic programs open
to employees.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU Business Media
Cisco:
Engineering Success through Learning (Sep 06)
Cisco uses a variety of delivery methods to reach engineers around
the globe.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Microsoft: Learning Outside the Box (Sep 06)
Unlike many organizations its size, Microsoft has no single chief
learning officer. Instead, Microsoft's nearly 65,000 employees fall
under one of four major learning organizations. The company's
one-of-a-kind learning model is, in short, the Microsoft way.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Hilton Hotels - Training IT Team Members to Succeed (Oct 06)
With more than 500 full-time IT employees worldwide, Hilton
Hotels IT team members are trained continuously not only to meet the
specific needs of colleagues inside the organisation, but also to
stay checked into the fast-moving IT industry.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
University of Leeds:
Needs Analysis Foundation of Effective IT Training
(Sep 06)
A
needs analysis helps to pinpoint exactly what critical competencies
are needed and how the learning should be received.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
LMS Implemented at Corrections Institute (Sep 06)
The National Institute of Corrections benefits from a new LMS.
T+D,
©2006 ASTD
Oldham PCT Trusts in
Concensus LMS to Manage Training (Sep 06)
Oldham PCT trusts uses CS Group's Consensus LMS to manage all its
training and development needs.
©2006 CS
Group
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Measuring Education Value
The ROI Basics: A Different Perspective
(Sep 06)
It is when we realise that many
things can not be measured and are unknown and unknowable that we
can more fairly investigate learning investments.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
ROI Controversy Rooted in Expectations (Sep 06)
Learning leaders can’t reach
consensus on something almost all of them value intensely:
measurement of learning impact on the business. ROI measurements or
metrics continually spark conversations and debates in the
enterprise education space. Parties on both sides of the fence —
those who say learning can be measured, and those who subscribe to
“We know intuitively that learning works” — might want to go back to
the beginning of the debate and evaluate their learning and
development expectations before they initiate programs, are
disappointed and potentially conclude that learning program content
or delivery was to blame when results are less than stellar.
CLOMedia,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Multi-Product Learning Solutions: Value and Caution (Sep 06)
More and more vendors in the
learning space are pushing suites of products rather than singular
learning solutions such as the LCMS or LMS. Instead, the new
products boast multiple capabilities, and in theory they enable
senior learning executives to launch a people-development strategy
directly. Some think that’s a good thing, that it shows the
marketplace is responsive to the changing needs of CLOs. But
industry leaders say you should exercise caution before jumping
onboard with one of the new multifaceted learning products. It’s not
simply a matter of cost or even one of value — vendor management and
learning strategy also are critical concerns.
CLOMedia,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Knowledge Advisors' Case Studies (Sep 06)
16
case studies on the use of Metrics that Matter®.
©2006 KnowledgeAdvisors
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
The Evolution of Training Outsourcing (Sep 06)
For decades, companies have been employing outsourcing strategies to
achieve greater scale, efficiency and expertise in a wide array of
business functions. More recently, however, a number of
organizations have begun to apply the outsourcing model to their
training function.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
Running
Training like a Business (Sep 06)
Listen. Listen to that faint, distant rhythm. What you're hearing
is the sound of impatience - executive impatience. Leather soles
pacing on hardwood. Fingertips drumming on desks. Pencils tapping
on coffee cups. And, it's getting louder. Corporate executives from
Sydney to Syracuse are looking with crossed arms and raised eyebrows
at traditional training organizations. They want results.
Training Growth Innovations,
©2006
TrainingOutsourcing.com
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Training Professional
Topics
Driven to Distraction - to Multitask or not (Oct 06)
Take a look around, and you'll see multitasking has become a way
of life. IT professionals, more than most, are likely to embrace it.
But while it's clear that multitasking has become normal on the job,
it's not always clear that performing more than one task
simultaneously is advantageous.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Round 2 of the IT Talent War (Oct 06)
Nowadays, companies are significantly more judicious with the
people they hire.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Finding your Career Coordinates (Oct 06)
Despite a shortfall of qualifies tech workers within IT job
roles, employers are becoming more demanding and selective in the
search for technology workers. Combining education and certification
can help you define your career coordinates within the IT industry.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Trainer Tricks: How to Hold the Audience’s Attention (Aug 06)
A trainer’s life is
spent presenting information, whether in front of a traditional
classroom or through a virtual one. Some have a natural talent for
grabbing the training audience’s attention and holding it throughout
the lesson, which has a marked impact on knowledge retention and
application on the job. For those trainers who aren’t naturally
hard-wired for success, however, there are a few tricks you can
employ to keep trainees’ minds from wandering.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Hitting the Mark (Sep 06)
Have you ever placed a
great deal of time, energy and resources into developing an
education/training intervention just to find out you missed the mark
miserably and were embarrassed to be associated with it? I have, and
I bet many of you reading this have, too. For those of you who have
faced this “agony of defeat,” as well as those who have been more
fortunate, let me share with you a process that will help your
interventions hit the mark.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Time for Change
- Get a Clean Sheet of Paper (Sep 06)
It has been 50 years
since we were blessed with the rules for taxonomy by Benjamin Bloom.
In 1956 Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who
developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior
important in learning. Bloom found more than 95 percent of the test
questions that students encounter require them to think at only the
lowest possible level: the recall of information.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Product Buzz (Oct 06)
One of the most common reasons people visit forums, including
CertMag, is to get information about products and services. It's
a good place to find out about a new offering on the market - most
of the people contributing their thoughts know what they're talking
about, and they aren't going to give you the vendor's line about how
it's the greatest thing ever with no bugs at all, natch.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
Workforce Capabilities: Tailoring Education for Key
Positions (Sep 06)
When aligning education to key positions, learning must be
strategically planned in terms of design, delivery and evaluation.
Asking 10 critical questions can help learning professionals find
the right fit for educational opportunities.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
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Education Administration
Selecting the Right Venue (Sep 06)
When you need copies of your course materials
an hour before the seminar and you suddenly discover there's no copy
center on site, or you can't hear yourself think because the Bar
Mitzvah next door is in full swing, you may be regretting your
training venue choice. Finding a balance between your technical
needs and your budget can be daunting, but it's vital for your
success.
Training Magazine,
©2006 VNU
Business Media
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
On the Edge and In Control: A New Kind of Training for Technical
Support (Sep
06)
Organizations that are oblivious to the realities of their
customers' complex, interconnected IT environments are at risk — as
are those that attempt to outsource this complexity.
CLOMedia,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing
EMC Proven Professional - Tackling the Ever-Increasing Storage
Industry (Oct 06)
As
data storage demands increase exponentially, the need for qualified
storage professionals also has increased. To address this gap in
storage knowledge, EMC has developed the EMC Proven Professional
certification.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
The Road less Travelled - how to become an IT Security Professional
(Oct 06)
The
network security engineer job role can be a double-edged sword. When
you're successful, no one notices, but when you're unsuccessful, you
end up at the centre of a sticky situation. Despite the downsides,
this job role has become one of the hottest in the industry.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
CISSP Management Concentration - Meeting the Demands of Specialised
Environments (Oct 06)
With information security environments growing in size,
complexity and specialisation, (ISC)2 has responded by creating the
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
certification and its management concentration, the CISSP
Information Systems Security Management Professional certification.
CertMag,
©2006 Media Tec
Publishing
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