Mobile learning (m-learning) is moving beyond the innovation stage to full implementation in all sectors of the economy, according to the results of a survey of the members throughout the world of the US-based eLearning Guild (eLG). Apparently: 44.8% of respondents expect to do more m-learning in the next 12 months. The US and Canada [...]
The use of virtual worlds for learning is attracting attention after the explosion of Second Life™ and similar online virtual communities. However, unleashing the power of virtual collaborative worlds to instructional designers and authors demands much higher levels of openness, accessibility and reusability in the underlying technologies and tools on the one side and lower [...]
Serious games, mobile learning and virtual learning worlds were the key themes at the ‘Training in Action’ conference, held in picturesque Sestri Levante, Italy, in early June. The event, which attracted some 150 of Europe’s top learning technologies specialists, was hosted by the LCMS vendor, Giunti Labs, at its Riviera headquarters: a converted 14th century [...]
The end of next month (29th June) sees the deadline for entries to this year’s E-Learning Awards. This comes hot on the heels of the announcement of this year’s winners of the Training Journal Awards and, if they’re still going, it will soon be time to send in entries for the WOLCE Awards too. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
