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News
Industry News from IT Skills Research
(Jan 07)
IT Training Press Releases (Jan 07)
E-Learning Market Briefing from
Kineo (Jan 07)
New Products - LMS, Simulations, Tools, Content from
Elearning!
(Jan 07)
SkillSoft Customer Subway Restaurants Honored with Top Spot (Jan 31)
Driver Alliant Deploys GeoLearning's Hosted LMS Suite (Jan 31)
KnowledgeAdvisors Releases Version 10.4 of MTM Analytics Technology
(Jan 29)
JEOL Selects GeoLearning's Hosted LMS Suite (Jan 23)
U.S. Army Expands E-Learning Partnership with SkillSoft (Jan 23)
OutStart Ushers in the New Year with Record Results for 2006 (Jan
18)
National Retail Federation Foundation Selects GeoLearning for
Distance-Learning Program (Jan 17)
RapideL Overcomes Challenges in Courseware Development, Project
Management (Jan 10)
Paradigm Learning Launches Talent Leadership Program (Jan 9)
Revenue Storm Selects Learn.Com Platform to Provide Training (Jan 8)
Retailer Mervyns Selects GeoLearning's Hosted LMS Suite (Jan 8)
Sales Performance International launches GeoLearning’s Hosted LMS
Suite (Jan 4)
Utica National Insurance Group Chooses GeoLearning (Jan 3)
Fidelity Expands LMS Functionality to Make Impact on Customer
Relations (Jan 3)
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Reviews and Current Trends
2006 Salary Snapshot -
What Drives Pay for Learning Professionals
(Jan 07)
The data shows that education level, years of experience, and
geography affect earning power in the workplace learning and
performance profession.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
Meet America's Learning Leaders (Jan 07)
These organizations stand out as shining examples of training best
practices – from strong executive support and clear alignment with
business goals to extremely good planning, management and sheer
persistence.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
Value is eroded in the move to cut costs (Dec 06)
David Pardo summarises
the findings of (UK) Training Trends 2006, an in-depth report
looking at the five issues affecting the training function from the
wider organisational point of view. IT Training,
©2006 Haymarket Specialist
Readers Select the Best of Elearning 2006 (Jan 07)
Which vendors are best in class? What do
buyers really think? Which providers best solve the users' key
business problems? More than 500 executives cast votes for the Best
of Elearning! for 2006 and named 42 solutions. From Best LMS to Best
Simulation Solution, these companies ranked as the leaders in their
class.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
Five Award-Winning Online Courses (Jan 07)
What started as an annual "10 Best"
presentation at conferences has grown to a full-scale industry
awards program, with 252 entries and more than 600 judges from 44
countries this year.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Sunny or Stormy - The Forecast for IT Employment in 2007 (Feb 07)
According to the
“Robert Half Technology 2007 Salary Guide,” prospects are bright for
IT professionals in many specialties. Firms continue to expand and,
as a result, increase their investments in IT products and services.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Looking Forward - The Training Industry in 2007 (Jan 07)
With the
war for talent in full swing, CLOs are thrust into a more strategic
role as company leaders look to them to help address a wide range of
talent management issue. Learning is no longer just about training —
it's not seen as a strategic function that can transform a company
into a high-performance organization.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
The next generation - Rising Stars (Dec 06)
The world of IT training is always
changing, which could prove a golden opportunity for dynamic, young
companies to take the market by storm. Let's look at some potential
(UK) winners.
IT Training,
©2006 Haymarket Specialist
E-Learning Predictions for 2007 from Kineo (Jan 07)
If
you want to live in the future, you have to make it up, right? So we
asked some of the industry’s big thinkers to peer through the
looking glass to paint us a picture of where e-learning is headed in
2007. Some made bold predictions (all references to hover-boards
have been removed). Some expressed their hopes, some their fears.
Some didn’t respond in time for the deadline. They shall not go to
the ball.
©2007 Kineo.co.uk
Top 10 Ways to Jump-start Learning and Performance in 2007 (Jan
07)
The view from
Geo-Learning.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
2007 - The Year of the Mission-Critical Workforce (Jan 07)
Seven of the 20 CEOs interviewed
said they spent between 30% and 50% of their working time each month
identifying, developing and retaining key talent.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Enterprise Learning and Talent Management - Predictions for 2007
(Jan 07)
Our goal with this report was to summarize the issues and areas
every learning and HR executive should be considering in the months
ahead. And, if you’re looking to justify investments or to get
planning approval, this document could also serve as useful support
since it summarizes much of the research conducted over 2006.
©2007 Bersin and
Associates
What challenges will 2007 bring us? (Jan 07)
Simon Clayton looks
forward to 2007 and offers some ideas about what the New Year will
bring us.
©2007 CS Group
Learning Trends and Futures - 7 Changes that will Morph the Training
Function (Jan 07)
Over the next three to five years,
learning will move from Human Capital Management to Performance
Support 3.0 to Next Generation Fingertip Knowledge. This evolution
is changing the learning field "right in front of our eyes." Seven
key trends are merging to support this evolution. By Elliott Masie
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
LMS Implementation and Administration Survey Results (Jan 07)
The fourth survey in the
Training Challenges Survey Series, conducted by Expertus and
TrainingOutsourcing.com, focused on LMS implementation and
administration and shows that customization is the biggest
challenge.
©2007 Expertus/TrainingOutsourcing.com
Women Receive Less Coaching (Jan 07)
Women continue to lag behind men in the amount of coaching they
receive.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
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Training
Manager/Director Development
50 Signs of an Unhealthy Organisation (Jan 07)
Does your company need
a health-check? See if any of these symptoms are familiar.
©2007 TrainingZONE
Strategic Versus Tactical - Do We Know the Difference?
(Jan 07)
Once tactics dominate the landscape, irrelevance typically is
quick to follow.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
The War for Talent (Jan 07)
The "War for Talent"
is realigning corporate learning focus from skills development and
performance improvement to building and supporting talent. This
shift will require changes in organizational structures,
technologies, priorities and practices.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
Habits of Successful CLOs
(Jan 07)
Make failure on the pathway to success an indicator that learning
and experimentation really are happening...Elliott Masie.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Wanted - A CLO With Courage (Jan 07)
Chief learning officers don't simply provide companies with
learning programs. They are responsible for fostering change in
the workplace. It's a position that requires not just leadership
and organizational skills but also considerable courage.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
New CLO, New Year, New Chance! (Jan 07)
There is no substitute
for the active learning leadership of the most senior leader of
your company.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Figuring Out What You’re Worth (Feb 07)
Determining whether you're fairly compensated can be one of the
most frustrating aspects of any career. It always seems as if the
grass is greener elsewhere, but how do you know? It takes an
analysis of your experience, education, age, industry and more.
CertMag,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
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Selling and Marketing
Education
No articles this month.
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Learning Media and Methods
The Science of Corporate Learning (Jan 07)
Many corporate learning programs might sound effective in theory.
But in order to positively deliver in reality, learning leaders need
to understand - on a scientific level - how learners learn.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Free your mind to the potential of open source (Dec 06)
Open source software is
much more than a free alternative to Microsoft.
IT Training,
©2006 Haymarket Specialist
12 Unavoidable Truths About E-Learning (Jan 07)
Many organizations ignore basic realities about technology and
learning, resulting in e-learning programs that are time-consuming
to create, expensive to produce and deploy and don't change
behaviors in the intended way. Building effective e-learning takes
an understanding of 12 unavoidable truths.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Four technology tips for e-learning project managers (Jan 07)
E-learning project
managers – we feel your pain. You have a tough job, managing strange
projects that are part creative, part change management, part
technology. We thought we’d lighten your load with some helpful tips
on how technology can make your life a little easier.
©2007 Kineo.co.uk
Ten Tips for Rapid E-learning (Jan 07)
Learning design is still
important.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
Review - Articulate Presenter and Quizmaker (Jan 07)
Training Media
Review
asked a panel of 33 training and education professionals to rate the
authoring tools they have used regularly. This review summarizes the
comments of the panelists who have used Articulate.
©2007 Training Media Review
There is more to Flash than just cartoons (Jan 07)
In the
10 years since it was invented, Flash software has become ever more
ubiquitous and useful.
IT Training,
©2007 Haymarket Specialist
Time for Change (Jan 07)
New
approaches have been sought to enable e-learners to reach a far
higher level of knowledge understanding rather than simple knowledge
transfer.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Serious Gaming - The Trainer's New Best Friend (Jan 07)
From language training to bank fraud detection, simulations can
teach just about anything and make it fun.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
Game Shows: A Viable Tool for Corporate Learning (Jan 07)
Think for a
moment about all the drama and effort the average CLO puts forth in
learning program development to keep learners’ attention. There’s
the endless race to keep up with the latest and greatest learning
technology, most of which was purposefully created to speed up
learning for the average ADD (always doing disorder), multitasking
employee. There are risqué icebreaker tactics, which can be risky in
our potentially litigious, ultra-sensitive-beware-of-harassment
society, and then there are the game shows.
CLOmedia,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Beyond Simple (and Boring) Multiple-Choice Questions (Jan 07)
Here are two
alternatives to multiple-choice questions: drag-and-drop exercises
and board games.
Learning Circuits,
©2007
ASTD
Video Learning Content: The Next Training Wave? (Jan 07)
With the rise of YouTube and
similar Web sites, watching videos via computer has become a
mainstream activity. A stroll through the average office and a
casual glance at many of the strategically placed computer screens
there prove the point — it’s inevitable that people will watch
videos on their computers. Instead of watching clips of local news
mishaps, however, they also could be learning the ins and outs of
their company’s newest product or service. Companies are beginning
to use that assumption to further advance their video training
solutions to a new generation of workers.
Training Prism,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
The Changing Face of Workplace Learning (Jan 07)
Mobile audio and video applications represent the steepest
technology-based adoption curve that the training industry has ever
seen.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
The Podcast Revolution (Jan 07)
Scary times for
traditional trainers.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
How Much Does It Cost to Create an Audio Podcast? (Jan 07)
For
a simple audio podcast, all you need is a computer or personal media
device with a sound card, an inexpensive or built-in microphone,
sound editing software, and a broadband Internet connection with
access to a website.
T+D Magazine,
©2007 ASTD
Whose Time is it Anyway? (Jan 07)
I recently have read many
articles about the ever-evolving Web, and the topics range from
information about what makes a cyber-criminal to “Google stalkers”
(those who spend every moment trying to find out information on
other people), “cheese podders” (those who spend their time hunting
iTunes for cheesy music to put on others’ iPods), “cyberchondriacs”
(those who will spend as much time as possible trying to diagnose
the illness they do not have) and finally the “wikipediaholic.”
Training Prism,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
The eLearning Guild’s Handbook on Synchronous e-Learning (Jan 07)
This
is intended for anyone
who wants to produce, lead, or promote live, interactive learning
events on the Web.
©2007 eLearningGuild
LCMS Adoption Trend (Jan 07)
28% of managers involved in content development have some type of
LCMS installed, and 42% plan to acquire such a system, according
to a new Bersin and Associates study. Drivers behind this LCMS
adoption trend include the need to rapidly develop content, better
automate content authoring, and manage large libraries of
constantly changing content.
Training Magazine,
©2007 VNU Business Media
Alternative Training - What Does a PSS Do (Jan 07)
A performance support system (PSS) is a specialized knowledge
management system that delivers role-specific content in a form to
support employees quickly while they perform job tasks.
Training Magazine,
©2007 VNU Business Media
Satellite Success - Is IDL Right for You (Jan 07)
Interactive distance learning-satellite (IDL) can be cost-effective
and interactive, too. So, should you transmit training via
satellite?
Training Magazine,
©2007 VNU Business Media
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Case Studies and Projects
Marist College Switches Web Conferencing Software (Jan 07)
Reduces costs and expands academic and administrative capabilities.
Elearning!,
©2007 B2BMediaco
Three Years of E-Learning on a Shoestring (Jan 07)
Leonard Cheshire,
the UK’s leading disability care charity, has found that the best
approach to cost-effective skills development in the voluntary
sector involves the consortium approach. Now, three years on, Craig
Brown, Leonard Cheshire’s IT training manager, discusses what has
been learned and achieved.
©2007 TrainingZONE
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Measuring Education Value
The Holy Grail of Evaluation? (Jan 07)
Why
are higher level evaluations so rarely undertaken when they are
reckoned to be so valuable?
©2007 TrainingZONE
Managing Learning Function Performance (Jan 07)
It's easy to say a well-designed, balanced performance measurement
system that drives appropriate stakeholder behaviors greatly reduces
the likelihood of function failure. However, designing and executing
such a performance measurement system is easier said than done.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Assessment Acumen - Do you have it? (Jan 07)
After taking years to assemble a well-crafted learning program, and
recruiting instructors and subject matter experts (SMEs) competent
enough to deliver it, you suddenly realize you don't know whether
it's working. What you need is an assessment plan. Whether hands-on,
online, in the classroom, or some perfected combination of the
three, the experts agree, you need a way to measure the skills
mastery of your learners.
Training Magazine,
©2007 VNU Business Media
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
The Business of Training and Development (Jan 07)
The concept of "running training like a business" was first
seriously discussed by Ed Trolley and David van Adelsberg in their
1999 book with the same title. Since that time, there have been
numerous magazine articles, discussions, blogs, and books that
basically addressed this same subject in some shape or form. As the
years have passed, this topic continues to be popular, and
discussions on how to achieve a business approach to training and
development persist.
©2007 Training Industry, Inc
Global
Collaboration and Outsourced Learning (Jan 07)
Modern, global business practices and interactions between employees
and employers, as well as customers and the organizations that serve
them, demand a concentrated focus on collaboration and
cost-efficiency. The learning and development industry found a
viable solution to the latter in outsourcing. Yet, collaboration
remains an issue, one that can guarantee the success or failure of
outsourced initiatives and consume any cost savings that an
organization might have enjoyed otherwise.
CLOmedia,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
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Training Professional
Topics
Be Smart About Money - Three Financial Tips for Consultants (Feb
07)
Money is not
the root of all evil, but not having enough of it has inspired
more evils than a body can count. As a consultant, you have to
worry about money every day, because you’re not only your firm’s
chief software designer but also its chief financial officer and
head of sales.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Classroom Response Systems Speed Up Training Assessment (Dec 06)
With a classroom full of students, it often can be difficult to
interact with everyone during a training session. Individual
assessment often comes in the form of graded assignments and exams
that are returned after the class has moved on to new material. With
wireless classroom response systems, however, instructors can pose
questions to the entire group and either project the responses for
the class as a chart or quickly analyze specific students’ answers
while class is still in session.
Training Prism,
©2006 Media Tec Publishing Inc
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Education Administration
No articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Partner-Driven, Customer-Ready: Novell’s Specialist Certifications
(Feb 07)
Information technology professionals must be able to meet the most
aggressive demands on the business network. They must be qualified
to implement technologies, deliver on high-profile business
initiatives, troubleshoot complex problems and safeguard all
business information within the environment.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
IBM: A Technical and Professional Development Mecca for IT (Feb
07)
For many IT professionals in the job market, whether they are
actively looking for work or passively scouting around for new or
better opportunities, IBM represents a kind of Holy Grail.
CertMag, ©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
Ready For Immediate Dispatch (Dec 06)
It's been a slow start,
but according to some retailers, RFID is about to make it big. Is
the market ready for CompTIA's qualification?
IT Training,
©2006 Haymarket Specialist
Vendor-Neutral Foundations for Efficient Storage Certification (Feb
07)
Storage is one of the fastest-changing and fastest-growing markets
in IT today. With the SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program
(SNCP), storage professionals at all levels can develop a foundation
of vendor-neutral, systems-level credentials.
CertMag,
©2007 Media Tec Publishing Inc
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