Training specialist, Illumine, has found that its speed reading courses are not only helping to improve delegates’ reading speeds but also helping them overcome the stress of ‘information overwhelm’. The average reading speed of delegates attending Illumine’s speed reading courses in 1997 was 265 words per minute (wpm). According to data from more recent Illumine [...]
According to a new report by PwC, most large organisations now have an articulated set of values or principles. Only one in ten respondents said that their organisation has none. The survey found that 80% of respondents realise that consistent and frequent communication are important drivers in stressing these values, but only 63% state [...]
At the recent Training Transformation Symposium (at the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) in Chatham, Kent), Fabrizio Cardinali - CEO of Giunti Labs and chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) - presented a five point plan to ensure economic competitiveness through worker competency in the face of global economic challenge and change. [...]
Giunti Labs, the learning and mobile content management solution provider, is adding its expertise to that of specialists at the University of Oxford to help to reduce problems associated with pre-eclampsia in pregnant women - one of the leading causes of maternal death in the developing world. Giunti Labs is helping the Nuffield Department [...]
A report in HR magazine argues that employees would feel more comfortable with using technology in the workplace if it had been incorporated into their training or education. Research by Lifelong Learning UK reveals that one in five employees feel their job prospects would improve as a result of understanding more about technology. In addition, [...]
One of the giants of the UK IT training industry - Parity Training - has been placed in administration. Colin Steed, Chief Executive of the Institute of IT Training (IITT), has gone on record as saying: "We’ve worked with Parity since the IITT's formation in 1995 and they have always been a leading supporter of the [...]
Google has created an application experiment called CloudCourse. This is an open source learning platform, running under AppEngine, Google’s Cloud Based environment. CloudCourse is being used internally at Google for several learning management system (LMS) type functions - from registration to classroom management. It is available as an Open Source codeset (available from http://tinyurl.com/3yqpqrs) and [...]
Matthew Lloyd, managing director of the e-learning solutions provider, Omniplex (http://www.omniplex.co.uk), contributed to the recent discussion, in London, on ‘Value for Money eLearning Solutions’, organised by eLearning Network (eLN) - a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning community for the e-learning community. While welcoming the trend to use rapid authoring tools to produce learning [...]
Building on the success of this blog’s list of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector, here’s a ‘top ten’ list of learning technology-related blogs:. 1 Donald H Taylor: http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com/ 2 Jane Knight: http://janeknight.typepad.com/ 3 Phil Green: http://philipgreen.blogspot.com/ 4 Clive Shepherd: http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/ 5 Lisa Neal Gualtieri: http://blog.acm.org/elearn/ 6 Ron Edwards: [...]
The e-learning industry has only been with us for about 20 years (before that, it was the computer-based training world, which was an offshoot of the IT sector). Perhaps because it’s such a young industry – certainly compared with, say, most of the City of London livery companies such as the Mercers, Goldsmiths and Vintners [...]
