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News
Worldwide Training Industry News (Sep 09)
Abstract News
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Information Inc
IT Training Press Releases (Sep 09)
Industry News Headlines from CLOmedia (Sep 09)
E-Learning Market Update from Kineo
(Sep 09)
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Reviews and Current Trends
Building a Better Learning Organisation (Sep 09)
The internal currency of today’s companies is
knowledge. The mandate of the modern learning organization
must be to stand as a center of
excellence for the creation, acquisition, and flow of knowledge in
all of its forms.
LX Briefing,
©2009 ASTD
What every L&D professional needs to know about e-learning (Sep 09)
Clive Shepherd and Laura
Overton take a look back over learning technology's recent history
and argue that trainers need to get with the times.
©2009
Clive Shepherd and Laura
Overton
Hi-Tech Logistics (Sep 09)
New
trends and technologies help employers to push the
training boundaries in the high-tech sector.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
Optimizing E-Learning Technologies (Sep 09)
The key is
creating a framework to assist in making choices that
will introduce appropriate online learning technologies at
the right place, at the
right time, and for the right reasons.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Engage the Managers of Distance Learners (Sep 09)
Your Learning Management System can be used as a tool to
encourage managers of distance learners to be more involved
in their employees’ training.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
Yes, You Can Guarantee Business Results from Training! (Sep 09)
Organizations that are successful at
turning training into business impact operate with the belief that
getting results from training is a whole-organization
responsibility. They have clearly defined processes for the senior
stakeholder, manager, participant, and learning professional.
ASTD
Links,
©2009 ASTD
Continuous Potential (Sep 09)
By recognizing that
“teachable moments” occur every day,
employees will continue to learn and improve their abilities
long after the learning
event has concluded.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
Who Needs IT? (Sep 09)
Training does.
Technology has enabled an incredible number of learning
opportunities that can benefit an increasingly dispersed workforce,
but the most productive training session won’t benefit anyone if it
can’t be delivered.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
A guide to navigating the digital copyright maze (Sep 09)
Avoid getting into legal
bother with this handy
digital copyright rules for trainers.
TrainingZONE,
©2009 Sift Media
How to Kill an Instructor-Led Training Program (Sep 09)
We applied our
combined 50 years of experience to this challenge - how to ensure
that your instructor-led training programs die an early death. By
following these eight steps we can guarantee that you will never
have to deal with an over-booked classroom again.
LINKS+,
©2009 ASTD
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Selling and Marketing
Education
"e-tailing" a channel to market (Sep 09)
With increasing
pressure to grow revenue within a challenging economic climate and
an empowered consumer base, many organisations are looking to their
web marketing and e-tail channels to drive differentiated business
value and create market demand. This session reviews some of the
global trends, identifies opportunities and provides an overview of
the strategy and approach taken at Sun Microsystems to maximise
global market online sales opportunities for education and training.
CEdMA Europe Workshop,
©2009 Sun Microsystems
"e-tailing" - is the effort worth it (Sep 09)
Let's explore the effectiveness of the internet as a
marketing and sales channel for
training and highlight some of the challenges we have faced.
CEdMA Europe
Workshop,
©2009 salesforce.com
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Learning Methods and Media
Brain Research, Instructional Strategies, and e-Learning - Making
the Connection (Sep 09)
Instructional strategies (sometimes called "pedagogies" or
“andragogies”) and their supporting tactics are the heart of
instructional design. Research is giving designers much valuable
information about the way the brain works and how humans learn. We
can use this information to guide our designs and make much better
use of traditional strategies, and to create new methods to improve
learning.
©2009 eLearningGuild
Outgrowing the Homegrown E-learning Solution (Sep 09)
Recognizing
when an in-house system just isn’t enough.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
Udutu E-learning (Sep 09)
Could there
be a free online collaborative e-learning authoring tool that
creates some basic e-learning that's actually pretty decent? Udutu
might just fit your needs.
©2009 Kineo
Learning on the Move (Sep 09)
While the use
of mobile devices continues to grow at breakneck speed, the promise
of learning delivered in a handheld unit has been slow to connect.
LX
Briefing,
©2009 ASTD
Virtual Worlds, Simulations, and Games for Education - A Unifying
View (Sep 09)
Many practitioners sense an overlap
between virtual worlds, games, and simulations, and yet they know
that one is not synonymous with the other. Here's a framework that
recognizes the relationships among these interactive learning
solutions.
ASTD Links,
©2009
ASTD
How Games are Magic (Sep 09)
Because Serious Games can Engage and Teach Employees, their role in
Corporate Learning can be Vital.
Elearning!
©2009 B2B Media
Co
Team Development of Simulation-Based Application Training (Sep 09)
What do you do when you have a big application software training
project, but limited time, limited access to SMEs, a global
audience, and existing content that doesn’t meet the client’s needs?
©2009 eLearningGuild
Virtual Worlds - Barriers to Their Business Value and Operability
(Sep 09)
For
several years, early adopters have been excited about using virtual
worlds for e-Learning, but organizations have been slow to share
that enthusiasm. In this week's article, the author looks at the
reasons for this reluctance, and at what must happen before virtual
worlds become part of every instructional designer's arsenal.
©2009 eLearningGuild
10 Things I've Learned About Teaching Online (Sep 09)
Michelle Everson has been teaching courses online for five years. In
her post she shares 10 lessons she’s learned.
eLearn Magazine,
©2009 ACM
LMSs for less than $20,000 (Sep 09)
Low-cost options are
perfect for some buyers, not so perfect for others, according to the
experts.
Elearning!
©2009 B2B Media
Co
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Case Studies and Projects
How Do You Manage in a Downturn (Aug 09)
In 2001, Cisco Systems was a decentralized company organized around
three lines of business (LOBs). Each LOB was focused on a customer
segment. The first was service providers such as AT&T, Verizon and
Comcast. The second was enterprises, some of them large
multinationals. The third was small- to medium-sized commercial
companies. Each LOB produced a line of products that were customized
for that segment’s needs, generating enormous growth during the
dot-com bonanza. Of course, that growth came to an abrupt end in
2001 when Cisco announced losses of $2.69 billion and layoffs of 18
percent of the workforce in the first quarter of the year. Cisco
used the crisis to transform itself.
Talent Management,
©2009 Media Tec Publishing
Don't Leave Home Without It (Sep 09)
Accenture brings mobile
compliance training to its worldwide workforce using a
BlackBerry-based “chunk-as-you-go” approach.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
Instructional Design for End User Application Training (Aug 09)
For instructional
designers without a background or experience in application
development, producing e-Learning for end-user training during the
development can be a great challenge. It can be difficult to
communicate with the development team because of time constraints,
and especially because of a lack of familiarity with the
documentation that the team produces.
©2009 eLearningGuild
Vistaprint's Wiki Way (Sep 09)
How to use
wikis for documenting processes or training.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
Boosting Sales Performance (Aug 09)
Their
excellent learning programs have provided the impetus for CA and
Cisco's dynamic growth.
Elearning!
©2009 B2B Media
Co
Next Generation Blended Learning (Jun 09)
This report details the
development and implementation of the J2EE Fast Track learning
program at Nationwide Insurance
and includes discussion on executive sponsorship,
identification of candidates, launch activities, and lessons
learned.
©2009 Bersin and Associates
Alcatel-Lucent University Surveys the Power of Mobile Technology
(Sep 09)
Alcatel-Lucent University explores
the use of mobile technology to keep its annual sales conference
fresh and innovative.
LINKS+,
©2009 ASTD
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Measuring Education Value
An Effective Way to Demonstrate ROI in E-Learning (Sep 09)
This case study examines how Farmacias
del Ahorro, a Mexican company that manufactures generic
drugs, changed its instructor-led training program to
an e-learning design to efficiently meet the company's training
needs and produce a higher ROI.
ASTD Links,
©2009
ASTD
Scared to Evaluate - Return on Learning is your Lifeline (Aug 09)
Lack of progress in measuring return on learning
investment hampers future implementations. Elearning!
©2009 B2B Media
Co
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
E-Learning and Economics (Sep 09)
Demands for costly,
time-consuming
implementations of large
e-learning software packages
are unlikely to be signed off on
quickly in the current economic
situation, so a viable alternative is
to begin with a smaller-scale
deployment that enables trainers to
show impact rapidly.
Training,
©2009 Nielsen Business Media
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Training Professional
Topics
16 Tips to Help Consultants Fare Well in a Down Economy (Sep 09)
Due to the current financial climate,
independent consultants need to take initiative and stay driven to
achieve lasting results.
ASTD Links,
©2009
ASTD
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Education Administration
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articles this month.
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Skills Gap/Technical
Certification
Caveon Speaks Out on IT Exam Security (Sep 09)
From its unique
position, Caveon has seen critical and pressing issues that all IT
certification program managers should understand concerning the
security of their exams.
©2009 Caveon
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Webinars and Podcasts
Five Influences on the Future of Learning Technologies (Sep 09)
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Bryan Chapman
describes innovative learning techniques and technologies
that are shaking up the industry.
Training Magazine Webinar, 8 Sep 09
Working with SMEs to Generate Great E-learning (Sep 09) -
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Learning and Development professionals frequently need to work with
Subject Matter Experts (SME), understanding what they know and the
best way to train on it. It isn't always easy. How can you make best
use of their time and yours?
Learning and Skills Group Webinar, 10 Sep 09
Making the Most of Mobile Learning (Sep 09)
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The arrival of the
smart phone has changed everyone’s expectations about what is
possible with mobile devices: now it really is possible to put
learning in your pocket. No mere fad for millennials, mobile
learning enables sales people, retailers and field engineers to do
their jobs faster and better than ever before.
Learning and Skills Group Webinar, 10 Sep 09
Increasing Virtual Learning And Webinar Effectiveness With Your
Social Learning System (Sep 09) - charts only
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It's one thing to
have a social learning system. It's another to effectively
facilitate social learning to achieve business benefits for the
participants and your company. Start developing your skills as a
Social Learning Facilitator. Webinars and other online learning
experiences can be valuable, but aside from a few presenter skills
and parlour tricks, they're pretty flat experiences for learners.
Chat is an interactive learning experience? Come on! Do participants
exit with goals for applying the information? Do they apply it? What
happens? Who knows??? This session shows how to create a more
robust, interactive learning experience that also answers these
critical questions.
Training Magazine
Webinar, 11 Sep 09
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