This year, ‘Learning at Work Day’ falls on 24th May. For the past eight years, Learning at Work Day has been promoted by the Campaign for Learning. Last year an estimated 5,600 organisations of all types and sizes took part in the Day. The idea behind the Day is to raise awareness about the [...]
The website, ‘: e-LearningNow :’, which claims to be ‘the UK’s e-learning resource…[bringing] together the key information you require to successfully implement and use e-learning within your training and development strategy’, has been contacting e-learning suppliers inviting them to spend some £55 for a short entry in its ‘Suppliers (sic) Directory’. Comment: Those considering [...]
An extract from an article by John Helmer in this month’s edition of Human Capital Management magazine reads: ‘The Hambrecht report in 2000 defined three supplier segments in e-learning: technology, content and services. Even then the lines were blurring, with providers branching into other areas driven by client need… Large companies in IT, business consulting [...]
The British Learning Association (BLA) – formerly the British Association for Open Learning (BAOL) – has just been told that it’s been awarded institute status. It is now the British Institute of Learning and Development (BILD). According to BILD officials, the new body’s aim is to take over the mantle of the old Institute of [...]
Recently, the US-based eLearning Guild published a free digital book called ‘339 Tips on the Implementation of an LMS or LCMS’. The book contains what its publishers claim to be ‘an amazing collection of tips from hundreds of your professional colleagues’. Comment: Of course, an LMS and LCMS are increasingly important weapons in an [...]
E-learning has moved a long way in the last five years or so. In the early years of the 21st century, the debate focused on whether e-learning was a viable alternative to instructor-led training (ILT). That debate has run its course. Both sides of the argument have embraced the other. The result is blended [...]
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), the global e-learning producer, was one of only eight organisations in the world to be awarded one of this year’s Performance Centred Design (PCD) Awards. The awards are conferred by EPSScentral LLC, the Virginia-based worldwide provider of electronic performance support systems (EPSS) and PCD and were presented at the Training Solutions [...]
The Cabinet War Rooms, the scene of some of the most influential decisions of World War II, became the venue for a further important decision on 22nd November, when key HR and training professionals from the UK’s top organisations, toured the Cabinet War Rooms and received a briefing on the first six weeks of the [...]
The global e-learning producer, Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), is hosting the Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum (TLDF) 2006, a unique global symposium on learning disabilities (LD) – the first of its kind in India – on 30th November and 1st December. The symposium came about because TIS decided to unveil the benefits of its experience [...]
Everyone loves getting an award – as evidenced by this year’s E-Learning Awards, presented in London in November. The audience for this, the second annual awards, had doubled to over 300 from last year’s 150 or so – and everyone had a good time. Everyone, that is, except for a gentleman of the Caledonian persuasion [...]
