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News
From ASTD's The Buzz -
Worldwide Training Industry News (Aug
08)
Abstract News ©2008
Information Inc
Quick News Digest from IT Skills Research
(Aug 08)
Industry News from IT Skills Research
(Aug 08)
IT Training Press Releases (Aug 08)
Industry News Headlines from CLOmedia (Aug
08)
Market Monitor 2008 Q2
(from IT Skills Research) - Aug 08
© IT Skills
Research Programme 1998-2008, last modified 14 Aug 08
E-Learning Market Update
from Kineo (Aug 08)
Update and Supplier Briefs (Aug 08)
IT Training, Autumn 2008,
©2008 British Computer Society
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Reviews and Current Trends
Slow Economy, Good Training Opportunity (Aug 08)
A sluggish economy is dire news, but not as dire as
you may thing, provided you know how to work it to your company’s
advantage by maintaining strong employee development.
Training Magazine,
© 2008 Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
Higher Skill Jobs at Risk for Offshoring (Aug 08)
A recent study by Career Builder and the Wharton School found that
higher IT skill jobs are becoming more at risk for offshoring.
© 2008 Bluestone Media, LLC
Best Practices for High Impact Learning (Aug 08)
In
the recent study, Bersin & Associates discovered that the learning
organizations that best cope and adapt to change share 18 best
practices.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Trust Issues (Aug 08)
Employees have more
confidence in their own managers than in top execs.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Training the Leaders who Follow (Aug 08)
Executive onboarding
processes are in need of improvement.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Trios Trump Singletons (Aug 08)
Groups of people, not individuals, are the key to producing value in
the knowledge era.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Today's High-Impact Learning Organization (Aug 08)
Today’s industry leaders excel in business alignment, organizational
strategy, content development and learning delivery strategy.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Learning from Multiplayer Online Games (Aug 08)
What
lessons are transferable from playing online games to designing
development programs?
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Mergers and Acquisitions 2008 - Don't Leave Employees Behind (Aug
08)
Leaders are in a perfect
position to provide valuable, people-centric information that can
help float an organizational transition.
Talent Management,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing Inc
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Webinars - Content Development, Speaker Selection and When NOT to
Sell (Aug 08)
Webinars are
the latest online marketing craze. It seems everyone's doing them.
Can they really be attracting audiences? Are those who attend
really the qualified prospects you're looking for? How can you get
people to attend them? Where to begin?
©2008 Training Growth Innovations
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Learning Methods and Media
Keeping it Real (Aug 08)
Research confirms that although the competency model continues to be
current, the context is shifting.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
A New Emphasis for Live Events (Aug 08)
Live events need more emphasis on participation.
IT Training, Autumn 2008,
©2008 British Computer Society
Training is Broken - There, We Said It (Aug 08)
With training's limitations under scrutiny, it may be performance
support's time to shine.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Untangling the Web of Learning Integration (Aug 08)
Designing a learning-services architecture that creates a central
function for learning is all about the management and minimization
of code.
CLOmedia,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing Inc
How to Rapidly Identify Training Needs (Aug 08)
Kineo's rapid
guide on how to identify training needs explains how to take an
80/20 approach to rapid e-learning needs identification, how to
prioritise the right business needs worth training, and describes a
three-step model for rapid training needs analysis.
©2008 Kineo
What is e-Learning 2.0? (Aug 08)
This article presents a
summary of some of the key ideas that will help you to organize your
strategy for e-Learning 2.0. As several of the authors state, this
is probably not an optional transition for most e-Learning
designers, but an inevitability.
©2008 eLearningGuild
Engaging with the new e-Learning (Jun 08)
12 strategies for
engaging and retaining learners through compelling online
experiences.
©2008 Adobe
The 3 Essential Questions Every Learner Wants Answered (Aug 08)
Those who design e-learning courses are the bridge between the
client who has specific expectations and the learner who has to take
the course. Ideally, the learner has expectations but sometimes
they take the course because they have to and not because it’s what
they want to do.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
3 Simple Techniques to Guide Your Learner's Attention (Aug 08)
How
you structure and present your content impacts how people learn and
gain their understanding. There are a number of approaches that you
can take when presenting your course content
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
Here's Why Unlocking Your Course Navigation Will Create Better
Learning (Aug 08)
It’s true that a lot of learners just start clicking on the next
button until they can leave the course. So our gut reaction is to
lock the navigation and force them to look at all of the content.
But does this really make sense?
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
Is Google Making Our E-Learning Stupid? (Aug 08)
I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most
strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy
article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the
narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours
strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case
anymore.
Rapid E-Learning Blog,
©2008 Creative Commons
Make Games Fun, and Effective (Aug 08)
A
recent Forrester Research report argues that within five years the
3D Internet will become as important to companies as the web is
today. As we move closer to the time when virtual reality,
intelligent tutoring, 3D gaming, and just plain games inundate the
training space, it would serve us well to examine exactly why games
are beneficial. More importantly, we need to understand why games
work. Contrary to current hype, people won’t want to play something
just because it is in fact a game.
Learning
Circuits, ©2008
ASTD
Workforce Collaboration and Web 2.0 - Improving Productivity by
Facilitating Knowledge Transfer (Jun 08)
Warning - 4Mb
The need to respond quickly to market changes and the proliferation
of a geographically dispersed workforce are driving organizations to
prioritize workforce collaboration. Workforce collaboration
continues to center primarily around project-based work. However,
the onset of Web 2.0 software tools, coupled with continued need to
improve workforce productivity, and the growing criticality to
capture institutional knowledge before it leaves the organization,
is forcing organizations to heighten the priority placed on
workforce collaboration and broaden its application across the
organization.
©2008 Aberdeen Group
Warning - Beware of the Dangerous Dozen (Aug 08)
12 questions that you
need to ask during your LMS search or it could be a career killer.
©2008 Learn.com
Whatever Happened to Performance Support (Aug 08)
E-learning, blended learning, and virtual worlds seemed to have
elbowed performance support into oblivion. Recent research finds
that this is not the case.
Learning
Circuits, ©2008
ASTD
Building a Business Case for Performance Support Solutions (Jul 08)
This Bob Mosher white paper
examines the current
state of today’s business environment, the challenges employees face
in adopting new processes, systems, policies and procedures, and how
an effective performance support solution can help to ensure the
success of your company’s critical projects and initiatives.
©2008
LearningGuide
Web 2.0 Jargon goes into Black Hole (Aug 08)
Web
2.0 includes some useful concepts but, by cutting out the jargon,
you won't alienate users.
IT Training, Autumn 2008,
©2008 British Computer Society
What Stinks about Webinars (Aug 08)
The
webinar is a popular tool for disseminating ideas and techniques in
the world of business. Yet, for all its popularity, this modality
often falls short of participants’ expectations.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Listen Up - A How-to Guide for Podcasting (Aug 08)
The
mechanics of podcasting are easy. The most challenging aspect of
introducing the technology into your organization is persuading
employees to accept the new approach.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
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Case Studies and Projects
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articles this month.
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Measuring Education Value
360 Report on Measuring Learning Success (Aug 08)
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This report
deals with two fundamental issues that are at the core of learning
endeavors: 1) When you test, are you truly able to show that someone
has learned something; and 2) Are you able to show that your
learning interventions benefit your organization?
©2008 eLearningGuild
Driving the Cost out of the Learning Organization (Aug 08)
As the world's economy challenges corporations and governments, it's
time to consider the most appropriate moves to optimize operations,
including the Learning Organization.
How do you do
it? Should you be downsizing, rightsizing, upsizing, or what to
avoid capsizing?
©2008 Intrepid
Obstacles to Demonstrating Business Impact (Aug 08)
Overwhelmingly, surveys of learning leaders identify the measurement
of learning’s business impact as a high priority for the learning
profession.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Skirting Round Evaluation Erodes Value of Training (Aug 08)
How can you know if
training is successful, if you skip evaluation.
IT Training, Autumn 2008,
©2008 British Computer Society
Benchmarking training activity and spend (Jul 08)
This factsheet
from the (UK) Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
(CIPD) gives introductory guidance and references several other
factsheets.
©2008 CIPD
Evaluation e-Learning 2.0 - Getting Our Heads Around the Complexity
(Aug 08)
Evaluating the
effectiveness of e-Learning 1.0 has always been a challenge, and one
which we have not always handled well. Now we have e-Learning 2.0,
with its bottom-up, decentralized, user-generated approach to
learning. How can we show the value of what we are doing with this
new approach, and how can we avoid doing harm?
©2008 eLearningGuild
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Centralize Service, Not Business Processes (Jun 08)
Another way to trim the cost of your training programs is to
centralize your training support, but not your processes.
©2008 Expertus
Steady under Pressure - Training during a Recession (Aug 08)
Recession fears shake
training budgets and rouse new ways to cope.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Inside Out (Aug 08)
Why training out-tasking
represents a growing solution for corporate learning.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Time for Green Learning (Aug 08)
Make your development
more energy efficient.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Rules Help Level the Supplier Field (Aug 08)
How to make sure the
decision on whether to outsource or use and internal department is
fair.
IT Training, Autumn 2008,
©2008 British Computer Society
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Training Professional
Topics
Connection Questions (Aug 08)
Developing an arsenal
of functional queries and start working the room your way.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Watch Your Language (Aug 08)
Your colleagues have a
lot more to say than you think - learn how to read body language
like a pro.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Why Every Professional Needs to Master Presentation Skills (Jul
08)
What does it takes for any professional to successfully
communicate his or her messages? It doesn’t matter whether you are
giving information to a client -- or to a larger audience of
shareholders – good presentation skills are vital to your success.
©2008 Margaret Brody
Making Your Point in a Meeting or Presentation (Aug 08)
Let’s pretend that from on high comes the directive to attend an
important meeting or – God help you – deliver a presentation. The
good news is that you have something important to deliver. You
feel strongly about an issue and you would like to present it to
your colleagues, whether in a conference room or from a podium in
a meeting hall. The question is: how do you prepare?
©2008 Tom Bunzel
Presenting Technical Information to Nontechnical Audiences (Aug
08)
Passing on information is not the problem. The problem is turning
information into communication. Sitting through boring meeting
after boring meeting while somebody stands to the left of a
computer screen and narrates a slideshow in a darkened room just
does not make the grade anymore—if it ever did. Translating
technical concepts to laypersons rather than other technical
colleagues requires a different mindset, more attention to detail,
and a higher skill set.
©2008 Dianna
Booher
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Education Administration
No articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Exam Prep - Choose Wisely (Sep 08)
Exam prep materials have been hotly debated on the CertMag forums
lately, as test-takers scramble to get their hands on the most
useful materials.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Exam preparation can put your career at risk (Aug 08)
Would you
compromise your personal integrity for $80? How about risk your IT
career for $200? Of course not, you say. But you already have -- if
you've ever used certification-examination "study materials" from
TestKing, Pass4Sure or hundreds of test-preparation Web sites just
like them.
©2008 Network World
A Threat to your Career - Combating Certification Fraud (Sep 08)
There is a problem in the IT certification business - certification
fraud. Everyone knows it's there but no one wants to acknowledge.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec
Publishing Inc
Master of Integrated Networking (Aug 08)
Can you picture a certification that was supported and backed by
five major networking vendors??? Think of this: a program that
addresses a void in the
real world market
in which all five major vendors co-exist. Nothing currently exists
like this program. Why? Because certifications are vendor- and
product oriented,
not real-world oriented!!!
©2008 Training
Industry Inc
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Webinars and Podcasts
Changes to the Training Company Landscape (Jun 08)
This podcast discusses changes to the training company landscape,
potential effects of the credit crunch and what should go into IT
training's Room 101.
IT Training,
©2008
British Computer Society
The Truth about Turning Technical Training
into Performance (white paper
here) (Training Industry Inc, 16 Jul 2008)
Really Rapid Content Development
(Ken Hirsohn, salesforce.com, 16 Jul 2008)
Using On-line Virtual Labs and Performance
Assessment
(Jeff Ries and Pat Steadman, Juniper, 31 Jul)
Better Business Results with Performance-Based
Learning (white paper
here) (Chief Learning Officer, 7 Aug 2008)
Roll-Out of New IT Systems (Aug 08)
This podcast gives advice on organising training to accompany the
roll-out of new IT systems, some typical training pitfalls and
favourite training tips.
IT Training,
©2008
British Computer Society
Leveraging Learning 2.0 - Challenges and
Benefits of Web 2.0 Application Adoption
(charts only
here)
(Training Magazine, 12 Aug 08)
Developing Custom Online Assessments
(Carrie Anderson and Kevin Davis, Oracle, 13 Aug)
50 Ways to Cheat on Tests
(charts only
here)
(Caveon, 20 Aug 08)
Elliott Masie - Learning Strategies - A Fresh
Look
(Chief Learning Officer, 21 Aug 08)
Best Practices for Virtual Training
(ELearning! Magazine, 21 Aug 08)
Has your Learning System Really Impacted your
Learning Outcomes? (ELearning! Magazine, 26 Aug 08)
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