There’s a tendency to do ‘just-in-case’ training rather than ‘just-in-time’ training. In other words, people are given access to learning materials in case they ever need to know what they’re being taught. Key issues in today’s workplace are the pace of change; the appearance of broader and more complex job tasks, and the question [...]
The drivers for adopting new technologies in learning include not only the suppliers and customers (buyers) but also the consumers (users) – in other words, everyone. Decide, design, develop and deploy is the standard four-step process relating to technology. Increasingly – since about 2006 - consumers want to use mobile devices for learning and for [...]
There’s always change but the corporate learning sector has been experiencing more than its usual share recently. On a strategic level, there’s a growing trend towards learning technology suppliers moving away from control by learning technologists. A recent 101-page IBIS Capital report on the e-learning sector, with market information and analysis from Learning Light, [...]
Tom Kuhlmann, one of the world’s best known e-learning designers and currently number three in the ‘World’ list of the Top Ten Movers and Shakers in corporate online learning, discussed the ‘what, when and how of interactivity’ with an invited audience at The Cellar at Vinopolis, on London’s south bank, at the [...]
At this year’s Learning Technologies exhibition (in London, 29/30 January), the learning content management solutions provider, eXact learning solutions, will be outlining how recent technology advances are enabling the personalisation and contextualisation of learning materials. In particular, it will be revealing key aspects of the latest version of its award-winning eXact learning content management system [...]
Learning Light, a consultancy with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the e-learning marketplace and how to use e-learning materials to best advantage, has enhanced its e-learning video library with two ranges of video-based learning materials. From el:talking, comes 20 scenario-based videos around the subject of ‘difficult conversations’ with employees. These cover informal performance [...]
Now in its fourth year, here – based on nothing more than experience and prejudice – are the new lists of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector, in the World, Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific. Again, there has been increasingly keen debate among the judges as to who genuinely [...]
As thoughts and images of 2012 are consigned to history, it may be worthwhile reflecting on the – few – key developments in the online learning world that occurred in these 12 months. 2012: Was the year that HTML5 established itself. Tool developers who are serious players in the industry have ensured that their tools [...]
There’s a Dutch saying that ‘windmills are placed where there’s wind’. In a similar vein, there will always be places where human beings want to go in order to learn. This may well be because humans who’ve been exposed to any formal education process have become conditioned to this. So, for example, they’ll want [...]
Towards Maturity’s latest – its sixth – annual learning technology Benchmark Study reveals that the top companies, in terms of corporate learning, are achieving substantial additional benefits through deploying technology in learning. This includes using learning technology to share good practice; improve talent, staff engagement and performance; respond faster to business change, and speed up [...]
