‘If it’s not broken, don’t fix it’ and the corollary, ‘if it is broken, fix it’ are enshrined in folk law as complementary pieces of good advice. This good advice is often expressed in business meetings. Yet there’s also a case for the view that, ‘if it’s broken, don’t fix it’. After all, [...]
Webinars offer the ability to learn something and interact with colleagues – and, sometimes, competitors – with the added advantage of not having to leave your home or office to do so. Consequently, in recent years, webinars have grown in frequency and popularity – much to the dismay of the hotel and catering industry, whose [...]
It appears that Blackboard, a well known provider of learning management system (LMS) software to the higher education market, has accepted a $45-a-share cash takeover bid from a group led by Providence Equity Partners – a company founded in 1989 which manages some $23bn of assets and focuses on media, communications, information and education investments. [...]
eXact learning solutions and Link2ICT, a division of Service Birmingham, a partnership between Birmingham City Council and the Capita Group, won a Learning Impact Leadership Award (LIA) at this year’s IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS) LIA ceremony, which was held in Long Beach, California. The LIA related to the Birmingham City Learning Platform an [...]
According to a report by virtual learning worlds and serious games’ specialists Ambient, there is a general slow down in spend on self-paced e-learning due to three market factors: The commoditisation of platforms and tools, which reduces market price Pricing pressures in the corporate e-learning sector caused by the slow economic recovery The growing tendency [...]
Mobile learning has found a champion in the global law firm Eversheds. According to Eversheds’ learning and development specialist, Tim Drewitt, who was speaking at a seminar held at BMA House, Tavistock Square, in London on 15th June and organised by LMMatters, Eversheds’ staff are using their previously unproductive ‘waiting time’ to carry out CPD [...]
According to a recently published study by Towards Maturity’s Laura Overton and Dr Genny Dixon, leadership and management development skills is the business area that will see the greatest increase in e-learning materials over the next two years. The study, which included the views of over 180 organisations, encompassing over 35,000 managers, concluded that [...]
It seems that Laura Overton - head of Towards Maturity, the organisation that collects a great deal of learning technologies benchmarking data and industry trends - has started her own industry trend. Speaking at a seminar held at BMA House, Tavistock Square, in London on 15th June and organised by Towards Maturity ‘ambassador’ LMMatters, [...]
In the popular musical, ‘My Fair Lady’, the phonetics teacher, Professor Higgins, laments, ‘Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?’ Were he a real character and alive today, Professor Higgins would probably be lamenting even louder that this trend has not only continued but has taken on an international context. Apparently, these [...]
