A survey of learning technologies in the voluntary sector - encompassing over 80 charities, representing more than 50,000 staff and volunteers – has found that: The top four benefits of adopting learning technologies are: improving flexibility of learning; improving access to learning; cutting costs and increasing reach. Over 66% of participants are looking for their investment [...]
An article by Rhys Moult in the recently published first edition of Australia’s revamped Training Magazine – now known as ‘E-learning and Training Magazine’ – is entitled: ‘Embedding E-learning in Small Businesses – why they don’t, why they should and how they can’. Comment: To those of us in Europe, there is nothing new [...]
This is an excellent time of year to review the previous 12 months (not the easiest time for any business) and to offer predictions for the next 12 (maybe more of the same) – and then forget all of that in order to be swept away on the rising tide of optimism that accompanies the [...]
Last year, there were lots of stories about embarrassing data loss – mostly involving the Government. These stories led to government reviews including the Poynter Review, the Cabinet Office Data Handling Review and a cross-government review of data handling procedures. These highlighted ‘systemic, rather than individual failures’, due to ‘woefully inadequate systems’ and that ‘data [...]
A report of the Learning 2009 event in Florida, USA - freely available from www.learninglight.com – written by a team of UK learning technology specialists, including Learning Light’s David Patterson, along with UKTI’s Nigel Goddard, Assessment 21’s Gerard Lennox and Sean Gilligan of Webanywhere, outlines a presentation given by Sarah Lindsell, Andrew Wolff and Helen [...]
A report on the UK e-learning sector in 2009 - ‘The UK e-learning market 2009’ - published this month by Learning Light, the Sheffield-based centre of excellence in the use of e-learning and learning technologies in the workplace, paints an optimistic picture: stating that the sector is ‘flowering’ despite the recession. The report’s principal finding [...]
Standards, tools and techniques for competency and skills based learning content personalisation are emerging – which is just as well because they can help organisations perform better in the increasingly competitive global economy. This is the message that Giunti Labs (www.giuntilabs.com) is outlining at this year’s Online Educa conference and exhibition, being held in Berlin [...]
Giunti Labs, the vendor of learning content management solutions (learn eXact LCMS) and digital repository platforms (HarvestRoad Hive), is supporting the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Genoa in the provision of its Master’s in E-learning degree programme (http://masterelearning.unige.it). The programme, which is also supported by The European Pedagogical ICT Licence Group (EPICT) [...]
At its 2009 Annual General Meeting in Lausanne, the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) formally endorsed the view that cost-cutting by itself was not a sustainable way out of the current economic crisis and that innovation was required now more than ever. “With new ICT enabled tools we can tap the brainpower of knowledge [...]
IMC (UK) Learning Ltd has revealed research (http://www.im-c.de/uploads/media/IMC-research-SMB-barriers-to-training.pdf) that looks at the barriers organisations encounter when providing training/ learning. It also reveals attitudes towards adopting e-learning tools, as well as organisations’ current use of new and emerging technologies for training. The research shows that 83% of respondents agree that enabling employees to learn is very [...]
