Clive Shepherd, chairman of the eLearning Network (eLN) - a non-profit organisation run by the e-learning community for the e-learning community – has revealed ten things to do to prosper during the economic downturn. HIs advice – based on a presentation at the recent Learning Technologies event in London – is freely available on the [...]
According to Management Today magazine, data security firm Credant Technologies has reported that, in the last year alone, dry cleaners have found as many as 9,000 USB memory sticks in clothing sent for cleaning. One particular dry cleaner’s in the City of London said that it found some 100 USB sticks a year. Credant also [...]
Greed appears to be a major motivator in today’s world. It lies at the heart of the current global economic crisis but, to be fair, it is a characteristic that has pervaded all of human history. Even in the micro-economic worlds that we all inhabit (and especially in the world of writing), you will find [...]
We all need to realise that there is a heavy ecological price to be paid for the sort of informal learning that comes from using an internet search engine. Apparently – according to new research by Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross – using the Google search engine to perform two searches produces some 7g of [...]
It can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that now is not a good time for jobs. Some commentators estimate that nearly 2m British workers face unemployment in 2009 as a result of the credit crunch. These job losses seem to be across all sectors of the economy and all levels of worker. Event the Management Consultancies [...]
A study of 1,322 British workers – commissioned by recruitment related website HireScore.com - has found that 82 per cent of people lie on behalf of their managers every day and more than half have had to take the flak for a managerial error; resulting in 17 per cent of British employees getting into trouble [...]
According to Claire Schooley’s report, published by Forrester Research Inc, learning programmes in innovative companies are directly linked to employee effectiveness and organisational success - making the learning executive more accountable to the business. The procurement of learning, orchestration of the learning programme and presentation of training classes are only part of the job. The [...]
According to the US-based eLearning Guild, the hottest trends in e-learning are the use of social networks and other collaborative tools, along with the explosion of immersive learning simulations (ILS) and serious games. These technologies, says the Guild, offer huge potentials - but also challenges - for achieving new levels of learner engagement, collaboration and [...]
Among the awards hopefuls in the ‘Bespoke Learning Solution of the Year’ category at this year’s WOLCE Awards – announced in Birmingham on 19th November – was ‘Understanding business’, a programme from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Interestingly, RBS has been no stranger to publicity recently for its apparent misunderstanding of business issues [...]
On 30th October, Kogan Page published Philippe Rothlin’s and Peter R. Werder’s book ‘Boreout! Overcoming Workplace Boredom’ (£14.99). ‘Boreout’, say the authors, is an increasingly important phenomenon which happens when employees feel disengaged with their work and become cut off from their company. Common causes of boreout are said to be feeling ‘understretched’ and dissatisfied [...]
