At The Digital Educational Content Marketplaces conference (DECOM 2008), which took place in Sestri Levante, Italy, at the end of October, one of the speakers – Adam Black, of Pearson Education - in endorsing the move towards mobile learning, commented that, every second, three babies are born somewhere in the world whereas, in the same [...]
Recently, I was chatting to someone who, after more than 25 years in the corporate learning industry, is about to retire. He observed that, despite everyone’s best endeavours, corporate learning does not seem to have increased its board level prestige in that time. “Twenty years or so ago, I recall talking to a company [...]
At its annual conference on learning technology, ALT-C, in September, the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite). ALT’s chief executive, Seb Schmoller, said: “The MOU aims to put collaboration between ALT and ascilite on a firm footing; [...]
Time was when, if you were involved in the e-learning world, your dinner jacket would hardly see the light of day. These days, it seems, the e-learning world is one glittering round of black tie dinners. No sooner have you had your dinner suit cleaned after attending the E-Learning Awards in London on 6th November [...]
A recent study by IBM and the Human Capital Institute (HCI) shows that while 84 per cent of organisations know workforce effectiveness is important to achieving business results, only 42 per cent of those surveyed say managers devote sufficient time to people management. The study, ‘Integrated Talent Management’, was based on research with 1,900 individuals [...]
Jay Cross, the man who claims to have coined the term ‘e-learning’, is now publicly arguing for the term ‘e-learning’ to be replaced by ‘emergent learning’. Writing in Human Capital Management magazine’s September edition, Cross believes that today’s working environment means that ‘top-down, command-and-control organisations can no longer keep pace… Teams, in-house functions, outsource providers [...]
Elliott Masie, the doyen of the e-learning consultant world, recently sent out an invitation to all his many friends to join him at his annual gathering for learning professionals: Learning 2008. The event is being held from 26th to 29th October – at Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida. Comment: Could this be an [...]
According to the well known – and well respected – journalist John Charlton, writing for Personnel Today, a report from French e-learning specialist Cegos names UK companies as top of the European training league. The Cegos survey of 1,000 medium and large companies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain found that 61 per [...]
According to Global Industry Analysts, the US is the single largest e-learning market worldwide, with revenues exceeding $17.5bn in 2007 - representing over 60 per cent of the total market. Europe is the second largest e-learning market, with a share of less than 15 per cent - but the Asian market is reported to be [...]
HR review has reported that staff use of the internet to conduct personal searches costs the UK economy £10.6bn each year, according to new research by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which suggest that the average British worker spends 90 minutes a week during working hours surfing the web for personal use. Additionally, the [...]
