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News
ASTD Learning Executive Confidence Index, LXCI (Dec 08)
ASTD has
created the ASTD Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) to
assess the outlooks and expectations of learning executives for the
next six months on a 100-point scale, modeled after the CEO
Confidence Indices reported by Chief Executive Magazine and The
Conference Board.
©2008 ASTD
Worldwide Training Industry News (Dec
08)
Abstract News ©2008
Information Inc
Quick News Digest from IT Skills Research
(Dec 08)
Industry News from IT Skills Research
(Dec 08)
IT Training Press Releases (Dec 08)
Industry News Headlines from CLOmedia (Dec
08)
E-Learning Market Update
from Kineo (Dec 08)
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Reviews and Current Trends
2008 Top 20 Companies in the IT Training Industry (Dec 08)
Training Industry, Inc. announced its first annual "Top 20 Companies
in the IT Training Industry".
©2008 TrainingIndustry Inc
Resolutions for Corporate Learning in 2009 (Dec 08)
Here is a list of resolutions for senior-level executives wishing to
maximize the
impact of learning programs.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Corporate universities - they are back, aren't they? (Nov 08)
Nigel Paine looks at the rise, fall and
resurrection of the corporate university and its role in delivering
value to a new generation of employees.
Inside Learning Technologies,
©2008 Principal Media
Online Educa 2008 - 5 Minute Report (Dec 08)
Here's a brief overview
of this year's renowned event.
©2008 Kineo
E-Learning 2.009 (Dec 08)
What does technology have in store for learning in the year ahead?
We talked to experts in Web 2.0, mobile learning, and games and
simulations about top trends and their forecasts for the near future
of e-learning.
Learning Circuits,
©2008 ASTD
Leading During Lean Times (Dec 08)
When times are going
well, it's all about the people. When times are going poorly, it's
about revenue.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Training Budgets under the Microscope (Dec 08)
What a recent ASTD
online survey tells us.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Transatlantic Training Shortage (Dec 08)
A
vast majority of workers feel unprepared to do their jobs.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Software-as-a-Service in learning and talent systems (Nov 08)
Evolving from roots in internet-hosted software applications,
software as a service (SAAS) has emerged as one of the most
significant trends in the software industry. SAAS impacts new and
existing vendors alike and is becoming a major force in the business
applications market. In addition, SAAS is increasingly figuring in
corporate decisions from accounting and customer relationship
management through to video conferencing
Inside Learning Technologies,
©2008 Principal Media
The Future of Learning (Dec 08)
To find out what we can expect in the corporate
learning space, the editors of Chief Learning Officer
magazine talked to some of the industry's leading voices.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Learning in 2020 - A Whole New World of Work (Dec 08)
T+D spoke with leaders and thinkers in the learning industry to
get insight into what the next decade holds for workplace learning
and what you should be paying attention to now.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Customer Learning (Dec 08)
Keep them coming back
for more.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
More for less (Nov 08)
George Bush senior was famously told, by Margaret Thatcher, "this is
no time to go wobbly". The same can be said to you, and your skills
transfer programs.
Inside Learning Technologies,
©2008 Principal Media
Training in the 21st Century - Everything Old is New Again (Dec 08)
Being forced to do more with less, today's learning
leaders are finding new ways make learning and training more
effective and efficient by designing programs that maximize value
while minimizing cost.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Agility Training for the Learning Organization (Dec 08)
To be more agile, the learning function can provide
rapid instructor-led training and e-learning and become more closely
aligned with the business.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Top 10 Strategies for Managing Mobile Workers (Dec 08)
However disorienting and maddening the pace and rules of our
contemporary work life may be, let's understand a few things:
There's no turning back, it doesn't have to be bad, and there are
things you can do to set yourself up for success even in the face of
multiple challenges...especially because a mobile workforce will
soon be the norm, not the exception.
Links,
©2008 ASTD
Getting the Best Salary Offer Possible (Dec 08)
Seven simple tips for successful salary negotiation.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Training Efficiency - Internal Marketing (Dec 08)
Running training
like a business implies marketing training like a business. But a
recent study of 75 training leaders reports that a minority of
corporate training departments have written or formal marketing
plans, budgets or promotions that go beyond general awareness of
their courses. This study reveals what those with more sophisticated
marketing do to target their audience and measure their reach, and
which marketing activities they find to be most effective and
favorably-received by employees.
©2008 Expertus
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Learning Methods and Media
Lessons Learned - Using Competency Models to Target Training Needs
(Dec 08)
Can
using competency models to target training needs help give learning
practitioners a seat at the table?
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Learning Opportunities Embedded in Social Networking (Dec 08)
Organizations are beginning to realize the learning
benefits of social networks.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Troubling Trends in Organizational Networks (Dec 08)
For all the talk about networks and knowledge
sharing, it appears many organizations aren’t practicing it. How is
your enterprise approaching these concepts.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Tools for Developing and Managing Web-based Training Projects (Dec
08)
Project management for
e-Learning presents a special set of challenges that the usual
schedules and plans do not cover. Here’s a set of tips that address
everything from the right questions to ask, to dealing with style
sheets and page templates.
©2008 eLearningGuild
An Interview with Don Taylor on Making e-Learning Happen (Dec 08)
Don Taylor is the Chair of
Learning Technologies Conference, and has been around e-learning for
longer than many. We caught up with him in advance of the January
2009 Learning Technologies show to ask a few timely questions about
implementing e-learning,
©2008 Kineo
The Top Five Trends in Learning Technology (Dec 08)
Emerging technologies, like all new ideas, promise the possibility
of significant benefits. In the initial stages of adoption, however,
those benefits can be difficult to fully reveal. ©2008
SumTotal Systems
Here's an Easy Way to Create Learning Objectives (Dec 08)
All courses begin with an overarching goal. Assuming
that the goal is clear, you build learning objectives to meet the
goal. Here, we explore a simple way to create objectives for your
course.
Rapid E-Learning
Blog,
©2008 Creative
Commons
Create E-Learning Scenarios by Bringing the Virtual World into the
Real World (Dec 08)
What makes this approach so compelling for rapid e-learning is the
cost, ease of use, and ability to create virtually any type of
scenario for your courses.
Rapid E-Learning
Blog,
©2008 Creative
Commons
10 Sure-Fire Tips for Creating Your Own Stock Photos (Dec 08)
Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures
can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources.
Why not create your own stock images? Obviously, this approach
doesn’t work for everyone and taking good photos is an art in
itself. However, it is a cost effective approach and with some
practice very viable. Rapid E-Learning
Blog,
©2008 Creative
Commons
Exploding the myths of synchronous e-learning (Nov 08)
Clive Shepherd looks at synchronous e-learning and dispels some of
the myths surrounding it.
Inside Learning Technologies,
©2008 Principal Media
All Aboard - The Web 3D Train is Leaving the Station (Dec 08)
Virtual worlds and serious games may be drastically changing the
face of learning.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
Recipe for Success with Enterprise Virtual Worlds (Dec 08)
These
are challenging times for businesses with the threat of a global
recession, the bankruptcy and collapse of leading financial service
institutions, and credit difficult to obtain. There is growing
interest in virtual worlds as a potential solution for business
training and collaboration.
©2008 Forterra Systems
Serious Games in Defence Education (Nov 08)
Caspian Learning has
developed an extensive report for the Defence College of Management
and Technology on the potential use of Immersive Learning
Simulations (ILS) and the role of serious games for training and
education. ©2008
Caspian
Building Mobile e-Learning (Dec 08)
As mobile devices take on
computing capacity, they are becoming the “go to” support for more
and more employees. This includes picking up learning and support
roles, especially in difficult economic times. E-Learning designers
and developers can quickly take advantage of this growing delivery
channel by following the tips and advice here.
©2008 eLearningGuild
Secrets of Successful Learning Systems - 6 Ways to Unlock Hidden
Value (Dec 08)
Expertus asked
leading CLOs and Training Directors, 'What are the top learning
challenges when you don't have a learning system portal?' The one
most important recurring aspect was the need for learning
organizations to cater to new modes of learning delivery and
informal learning.
©2008 Expertus
What Things Cost (Dec 08)
Electronic and audio books are useful tools for people seeking to
incorporate reading into their busy work and travel schedules.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Case Studies and Projects
No articles this month.
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Measuring Education Value
Measuring Business Impact (Dec 08)
Here is what’s happening at some best-practice
companies using measurement of learning's business impact.
Chief Learning Officer,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
Measuring Learning as Budgets Tighten (Nov 08)
In November
2008, Training Industry, Inc. and Expertus partnered to conduct the
last of four surveys in the Training Efficiency Masters Series. We
asked training professionals about which metrics they collect and
use to measure learning. We asked specific questions about the
relationships between types of decisions and metrics and pulse
questions around budgetary pressure and changes in training budgets
from 2008 to 2009.
©2008 Expertus
On the Level (Dec 08)
Rethink Level 3 evaluation and how to
apply it.
T+D Magazine,
©2008 ASTD
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Training Outsourcing Study - Executive Summary (Jan 09)
This is a
summary of key findings including: Industry Overview, State of the
Buyer, State of the Companies, and an introduction of the Diamond
Dashboard framework detailing Industry Benchmarks with statistical
metrics.
©2009 Client Opinions
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Training Professional
Topics
New to training? Avoid beginners' blunders... (Dec 08)
Here's some advice for new trainers on how to skirt around the
common pitfalls of being new to the job. ©2008
TrainingZONE
Excuses, excuses - why good writing comes second best (Nov 08)
Kai
Merriot, examines why, in a medium where communication should be
paramount, we as learning designers and script writers, constantly
get it wrong.
Inside Learning Technologies,
©2008 Principal Media
Expand Your Career Horizons as an Adjunct Online Instructor (Dec 08)
Adjunct instructors have
long been important to institutions of higher education, and their
numbers are growing. In fact, this may represent a significant
opportunity for many e-Learning professionals to increase their job
satisfaction, enlarge their networks, and supplement their incomes.
Here are some tips to help you get started!
©2008 eLearningGuild
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Education Administration
No articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Novell - Certification for ROI (Jan 09)
Even in a tight economy, the one thing IT professionals can't skimp
on is certification. A new study by Novell found that Linux Server
and Systems management will be the top training priorities in 2009.
CertMag,
©2008 Media Tec Publishing
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Webinars and Podcasts
Do You Really Need an Enterprise LMS? (Dec 08)
- charts only
here.
As the learning management system market continues to grow and
evolve, more and more organizations are attempting to consolidate
their departmental systems into a centralized corporate LMS. But is
that really necessary and cost-effective? In this
Chief Learning Officer webinar, Josh Bersin discussed
the trends in centralization and decentralization of learning
management technology.
©2008 Bersin and Associates
The New Wave of e-Learning Technologies (Dec
08) - charts only
here.
Ed
Prentice, president of Centrax, covered the practical use of new
technologies in e-Learning, including Second Life, mobile
applications, video programming, text messaging, virtual classrooms,
and web conferencing.
©2008
Centrax Corp
Numbers Don’t Lie - The Four Universal Truths
for Learning Measurement Success (Dec 08)
This webinar covered
how to gather
intelligence that C-level executives find most valuable, choose
analytic methods that best fit your environment, create a complete
view of learning performance - even with limited data or tool,
determine when "more" information is worth the extra cost and
effort, and achieve 100% confidence in your data quality.
©2008
TrainingIndustry Inc
Using DITA for e-Learning (Dec 08)
- charts
only
here.
Many companies are implementing, or at least evaluating, a single
source authoring method to support different training formats. This
presentation shows how PTC has used the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) documentation standard as part of a single
source authoring strategy within an XML environment. In addition,
we’ll briefly review the training deliverables generated using DITA,
and how our development process has been simplified by single source
authoring. E-Learning SIG,
©2008 CEdMA
Certification Best of Program (Dec 08)
- charts only
here.
CEdMA
recently sponsored a major survey of IT certification programs. This
survey identified "Best of Program" practices among IT certification
programs across a wide range of program sizes, objectives and
audiences. The Certification Best of Program Analysis Tool allows
you to examine your program, thinking about what you want to do in
2009 and beyond. The meeting focused on discussing findings.
Certification SIG,
©2008 CEdMA
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