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News
From ASTD's The Buzz - Worldwide Training Industry News (Apr
08)
Abstract News ©2008
Information Inc
Quick News Digest from IT Skills Research
(Apr 08)
Industry News from IT Skills Research
(Apr 08)
IT Training Press Releases (Apr 08)
Industry News Headlines from CLOmedia (Apr
08)
E-Learning Market Update
from Kineo (Apr 08)
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Reviews and Current Trends
Snapshot - Cost of Instructor Lead Training (Apr 08)
Hidden Dollars in IT Training (Apr 08)
The actual dollars spent
are unknown, and decisions are not made in plain view. This might
sound like the national intelligence budget, but such
characteristics also describe IT training.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Being Informed Helps Buyers (Apr 08)
Whether you're buying a
car or buying training, the same precaution applies - keep your eyes
wide open. Training Industry Quarterly,
©2008 Training Industry
Snapshot Report on Learning Modalities (Apr 08)
The
goal of this report is to help you identify where you and your
organization are with respect to the adoption of various learning
modalities vis-à-vis other organizations.
©2008 eLearningGuild
E-learning - Is it time to party? (Apr 08)
E-learning has grown up – it's more real-time, more rapid and more
collaborative, says Clive Shepherd. He looks back to the drum roll
of e-learning's birth 10 years ago, its faltering progress and
predicts successful teenage years. ©2008
TrainingZONE
Enterprise-Wide Learning (Mar 08)
To overcome
mounting external pressures, Human Capital Management (HCM) has
taken on heightened strategic importance, and enterprise learning
and development is taking center stage.
Elearning!
©2008 B2BMediaco
Six ways to strengthen the link between training and business
performance (Apr 08)
When
training goals are linked to employee performance, the leap to
business improvement seems clear. Yet, all too often, progress
stalls and new skills are underused. Kepner-Tregoe has identified
six key actions that will encourage employees to change and use new
skills. Ron Vonk explains.
©2008 TrainingZONE
Talent Management may be More Popular, Useful in Tough Economy (Apr
08)
Despite bad economic
news and global concerns about recession, a new Mercer survey
reveals most organizations are not leaning toward extremes of cost
cutting, but are focused on the long term.
Talent Management,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Study Shows Continuing Demand for Training in Information Security
(May 08)
(ISC)2’s Global Information Security Workforce Study provides a
snapshot of today’s IT security industry and where it is headed.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Building a Learning Culture (Apr 08)
What exactly is a learning culture?
How do you know if your company has such a culture? And perhaps most
importantly, how can you create one?
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Time is All We Have (Apr 08)
Most
managers tell time with Industrial Age watches, acting as if
Internet time does not exist and missing the prospects it offers.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Training's Role in Continuous Improvement (Apr 08)
In order to have a
lasting impact on the organization, the learning function should be
heavily involved in continuous improvement porograms. Check out four
other key drivers that can ensure success.
Training Industry
Quarterly,
©2008 Training Industry
Learning for the Google Generation (Apr 08)
The
"Google generation" is qualitatively different in its expectations,
attitudes and perceptions about school, work and career development.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Know the Drill (Apr 08)
Rethinking boot camp planning and curricula.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Flexible (Apr 08)
When an organization's
options regarding retirement are not constrained by a traditional
defined benefit pension plan, I believe retaining people, rather
than rehiring them after their formal retirement, is the preferred
course of action.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Learning Director - Are you Ready for your New Role? (Apr 08)
This new Forrester
Research Brief provides training professionals with the nuts and
bolts of evolving an ordinary training department into a
business-focused, metrics-driven team.
©2008 Forrester Research
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Metrics for Marketing Learning Programs (Apr 08)
When
it comes to employee development, learning leaders should apply
marketing principles to ensure learners get the information they
need, when they need it.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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Learning Methods and Media
Best Methods for Product-Based Training (Apr 08)
When
it comes to launching a new product, the learning function should
do more than develop training. It should be involved in strategic
planning from the very beginning.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
The Upside-Down Training Cake (Apr 08)
When
learning begins with a case, scenario or simulation after a brief
overview, trainees are more movitivated to learn than when they are
presented with a lot of content up front.
CLOmedia, ©2008 Media
Tec Publishing Inc
Learning in the 21st Century - A Brave New World (Apr 08)
Today’s CLOs have to deal with more organizational intricacy and
change than ever before. To manage this complexity, they need to
come up with the right formula of methods and modalities.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
10 Tips for working with SMEs (Mar 08)
Mohive shares some key guidelines for working with SMEs including;
identifying who these people are within your organisation and
motivating them to create great rapid e-learning courses.
©2008 Mohive
From the Anointed Few to the Collective Many (Apr 08)
Workplace communities have the potential to transform knowledge work
and talent management—the cornerstones of our knowledge-based
economy.
Learning
Circuits, © 2008 ASTD
Coming Clean About E-Learning Misconceptions (Apr 08)
At conferences and expos, in leading publications, and during
conversations, the e-learning consumer gets bombarded with the
latest catch phrases and trends. Here are a few of the top
misconceptions circulating the e-learning industry.
Learning
Circuits, © 2008 ASTD
Learning Pathfinder (Apr 08)
The role of
self-directed learning.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Using Web 2.0 (Mar 08)
Students and employees
use the World Wide Web much differently today. Technologies like
Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr
and Skype are becoming more popular.
Elearning!
©2008 B2BMediaco
Skills 2.0 (Apr 08)
Web 2.0 gives learning professionals an aptitude
adjustment.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
What Things Cost - e-Learning Content Development Tools (Apr 08)
What Do E-Learning Content
Development Tools Cost?
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Developing e-Learning Modules Across Languages and Cultures (Apr 08)
This week’s article
tells how the developers dealt with the challenge of producing
e-Learning in both English and Arabic, and the methods they devised
to streamline the translation process.
©2008 eLearningGuild
Borrowing from the YouTube Playbook for Training (Apr 08)
An important challenge
for e-Learning is "stickiness", or getting users to return
willingly.
©2008 eLearningGuild
Once Upon a Keyboard - Designing Stories Into e-Learning (Apr 08)
This article
offers an expert’s lessons learned in
using stories to bring life to e-Learning for sales and customer
support staff.
©2008 eLearningGuild
5 Secret Tips from an E-Learning Pioneer (Apr 08)
The e-learning industry has its very own unsung hero, Dr Werner
Oppelbaumer. Dr Oppelbaumer is a pioneer in the e-learning industry
and has committed his life to advancing online education. I
recently interviewed Dr Oppelbaumer and asked him to present five
practical tips to help you succeed and grow as e-learning
professionals. Rapid
E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
What Slot Machines, Video Games and Legos Have to do with E-Learning
(Apr 08)
The thought of being close to success, but not quite there is a
great motivator. Good video games work in a similar manner. They
get you to a certain level right before they kill you off. You get
close enough to the next level of achievement that it creates an
irresistible force to continue.
Rapid
E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
How I Built that E-Learning Scenario (Apr 08)
A lot of people asked me how I built the little scenario in my
recent post on not wasting your learner’s time. This post tells you
how I did it and provides you with the PowerPoint files so you can
learn to do it yourself.
Rapid
E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
Create Custom Characters for Your E-Learning Scenarios (Apr 08)
Building scenarios
for your e-learning courses is a good way to engage your learners
and it helps place the course content in a real world context.
However, when using clip art to build your scenarios you run into a
couple of challenges. One is having
enough
characters
and the other is having the
right
characters.
Rapid
E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
10 Sure-Fire Tips to Becoming a Rapid E-learning Pro (Apr 08)
There’s no reason
why you should have to be a programmer to build e-learning,
especially when there are tools to help you build your courses.
Rapid
e-learning is less about being rapid, and more about being smart.
Rapid
E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
Enterprise LMS/LCMS (Mar 08)
Organizations are looking for ways to leverage technology to not
only deliver, manage and report on learning activities, but also to
create learning activities and manage the learning assets. Elearning!
©2008 B2BMediaco
LCMS - A Critical Link to Learning Success (Apr 08)
Learning is a much clearer value proposition when organizations can
harvest their own intellectuual capital to address content gaps.
That's where the LCMS enters the picture. Training Industry
Quarterly,
©2008 Training Industry
The Next Generation of Web Conferencing (Mar 08)
What’s the future of Web conferencing? Imagine sitting on a train
with a mobile telephone that can project the video portion of a Web
conference eight inches onto the seatback in front of you. Elearning!
©2008 B2BMediaco
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Case Studies and Projects
Blended Learning Helps Sales Staff Become Financially Knowledgable
(Apr 08)
CA
leverages blend of e-learning and customized training to support
sales in the financial services industry.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Making Learning Count (Apr 08)
Hope
Greenfield’s tenure at Lehman Brothers mirrors the progression of
the corporate learning industry.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Merrill Lynch - Bullish on Mobile Learning (Apr 08)
Many employees at Merrill Lynch are
working long hours outside of the office. Because of these
circumstances, the company has turned to mobile modalities to
deliver learning.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
IT Women (Apr 08)
Women have made strides moving into the IT workforce, but they still
have a way to go. Luckily there are more opportunities than many
realize.
Training Magazine,
© 2008 Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
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Measuring Education Value
Fallacies of Reason (Apr 08)
In
determining the likelihood of success for a particular project or
program, we should adopt a scientific approach to assessing and
analyzing data.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Take Your ROI to Level 6 (Apr 08)
Think your training investments can be measured on a five-point
scale? Think again: American Express learning leaders have taken ROI
tracking up a notch.
Training Industry Quarterly,
©2008 Training Industry
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Outsourcing Gains Momentum (Mar 08)
“While outsourcing isn’t
right for every organization, it is an option that should be
considered and evaluated by managers on a periodic basis,” notes
Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates.
Elearning!
©2008 B2BMediaco
Optimizing the Cost of Learning Technology (Apr 08)
When considering
learning teachnologies, it's good to be strategic, among other
things. Training Industry Quarterly,
©2008 Training Industry
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Training Professional
Topics
Securing Your Wireless Access Network (May 08)
Taking some care in cutting the network cord when going wireless
can prevent the move from creating a security disaster.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Use a Menu to Create an Audience-Centered Presentation (Apr 08)
In this article, I’ll show you how to create a non-linear
presentation, using a menu, that lets your audience have control
over the direction of your content. This technique also gives you
the flexibility to change the direction of your presentation at a
moment’s notice, depending on the situation.
© 2008
www.ellenfinkelstein.com
Tailoring Messages to Viewers - Seven Critical Tips (Apr 08)
What if you were told you had an hour to speak but circumstances
immediately before the event reduced your time slot to only 20
minutes? What would you do? If you’ve been in that situation, what
DID you do? Now pretend a similar predicament arises, but this
time you’re ready for it.
© 2008 Robert Lane and Chantal Bossé
Compressing Pictures in PowerPoint (Apr 08)
The decline in the prices of digital cameras is directly related
to the bloating file sizes of PowerPoint files. If you don’t
believe me, just insert a few ten megapixel photos inside a
PowerPoint presentation and see what happens to the file size.
© 2008
www.geteesh.com
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Education Administration
No
articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Accelerated Development (Apr 08)
We
need skilled workers, and we need to accelerate the development of
our new and existing people to ensure they can take on new roles
faster.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Calculating the Skills Shortage (Apr 08)
Finance and IT face daunting
challenges as boomers retire.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Saving IT Certification (Apr 08)
An Interview with Bill Horzempa, Chairman of the IT Certification
Council.
© 2008 Bluestone Media, LLC
Top 20 Most Brain-dumped Certification Vendors (Mar 08)
Would it surprise you to know that a majority of the brain-dump
sites primarily distribute Microsoft and Cisco brain-dumps?
©
2008 CertGuard
Stolen Tests Threaten IT Certifications (Apr 08)
Make sure your IT certification is legit, or it could
get taken away.
Byte and Switch,
Copyright © 2008 United Business Media
Cisco and Pearson VUE Partner on Tough New Security Program
(Apr 08)
To preserve the integrity of the certification process and the value
of its certifications, Cisco has partnered with Pearson VUE to
implement a tough new set of security measures.
© 2008 Bluestone Media, LLC
The New Microsoft Certifications - What They Mean For You (Apr 08)
Microsoft has been phasing in a new certification framework over the
last couple of years and there are a lot of certifications and
acronyms circulating. A lot of people aren’t sure how the old
certifications map to the new certifications or which path they
should take. This overview provides a look at the new certifications
and how they impact Microsoft IT professionals.
© 2008 Bluestone Media, LLC
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