According to a recently published survey by the France-based learning and development specialist Cegos, organisations are at odds with employees over the types of learning being developed. Some 50 per cent of employees across Europe want more e-learning and blended learning over the next three years, but only 40 per cent of HR professionals plan to develop [...]
This year, on 23rd April – a significant day for lovers of all things English - The Open University (OU) celebrated its 40th anniversary. The OU is now the UK’s largest university, teaching almost 200,000 students each year and, since its establishment in 1969, it has helped over 2m students further career development or fulfil [...]
Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Labs’ CEO, reveals the preliminary results of the Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures (IRMOS) Project at the ‘Immersive Education Summit’ at the London School of Economics in London on 24th April. The IRMOS Project is a 36 month, 12.9m Euro project awarded by the European Commission to a Consortium [...]
The eLearning Network (eLN) is advertising the first in a series of ‘exclusive webinars’ for full eLN members – on 2nd April – as ‘an hour with Jay Cross’, a man whom it describes as ‘one of the best known and most respected figures in the field of learning technologies’. Comment: The thrust of [...]
Recently, Training Zone asked learning conference organiser and guru Donald H Taylor to address the question, ‘does e-learning have a future? Comment: Taylor’s answer - in a carefully worded article - is ‘no and yes’. That seems nicely calculated to please everybody. What he hints at – rightly – in his article is [...]
Towards Maturity’s recent benchmarking report – Driving Business Benefits – has found: Strengthening induction training, improving the quality of learning and developing a better qualified workforce are the main reasons why 64 per cent of organisations plan to increase their learning technologies budgets in 2009. Two years ago, the main reasons for using learning technologies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
