News
Worldwide Training Industry News (Jul 10)
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Information Inc
IT Training Press Releases (Jul 10)
Industry News Headlines from CLOmedia (Jul 10)
E-Learning Market Update from Kineo (Jul 10)
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Reviews and Current Trends
In Defense of Micromanagement (Jul 10)
Bigger isn’t always better. Sometimes thinking small is the right
way to go.
Talent Management,
©2010 Media Tec Publishing
The critical impact of economic crisis on learning organizations
(Jul 10)
Organizations continue to experience tremendous pressure to build
revenue and shareholder value. Productivity reports indicate that
companies have to do more with fewer resources – both capital and
human. So what are organizations doing to optimize their resources?
What tactics are they using to improve the returns on their training
investments? This white paper by Achieveglogal addresses this.
©2010
Achieveglogal
3 Major Trends in Learning Technology Implementation (Jun 10)
In a recent
Learning Executive Think Tank discussion, Tom Clancy, VP of
Education at EMC; Tom Kelly, former learning executive at Cisco and
Oracle; and Cushing Anderson, Vice President at IDC, met with a
handful of top learning executives to discuss how technology is
being used to create more efficient, collaborative, and
cost-effective training. Specifically, learning leader participants
were asked to answer “What major learning technology initiatives
do you have in the works, and why?”.
©2010 Expertus
By the Numbers - How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World (Jul
10)
Here
are some great
factoids about digital life from
Newsweek
for your next presentation. They compare numbers of things in 2000
versus 2010.
©2010 Newsweek, Inc
A European Study into How People Like to Learn at Work (Jul 10)
This SkillSoft
survey canvassed 2019 employees of companies over 50 staff evenly
divided across eight European countries (Belgium, France, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK).
©2010 SkillSoft
Learning Executives Confidence Index 2Q10 (Jul 10)
Learning executives (LXs) revealed slightly
improved scores in key indices in the second quarter, suggesting a
continued sense of optimism and stabilization in most key areas.
©2010 ASTD
Is the formal training room obsolete? (Jul 10)
As
the learning environment become increasingly flexible, traditional
training rooms are being replaced by newer, more innovative learning
methods.
TrainingZONE,
©2010 Sift Media
E-learning Goes Everywhere (Jun 10)
In our annual Web-based research, 93 percent of 740 total
respondents indicate that they have an active e-learning initiative.
Of those who do not, all plan to implement such an initiative in the
near future.
E-learning User Study - Corporate Segment (May 10)
E-learning User Study - Public Sector Segment (May 10)
Elearning!,
©2010 B2B Media Co LLC
The Gender Pay Gap in e-Learning (Jul 10)
The eLearning Guild recently published a report on 2010 e-Learning
Salary and Compensation. One finding that generated much discussion
is the 14.5% gender gap in pay. Why in today’s world does this gap
still exist? Research Report author Temple Smolen drilled down
further into the data to see if she could find an answer to that
question.
Learning Solutions
Magazine,
© 2010 eLearning Guild
Learning Pros Looking to Update their Current Learning and Talent
Systems (Jun 10)
In our “Learning
and Talent Management Buyer Survey,” 41 percent of executives
reportedly plan to add, change or replace their current LMS and/or
TMS. Which features do they seek?
Elearning!,
©2010 B2B Media Co LLC
Collaboration and Social Networking in Today's Enterprises (Jun 10)
Respondents to a
combined Elearning! and Government Elearning! Web survey use a
variety of collaboration solutions including social networks, online
communities and collaborative technologies.
Elearning!,
©2010 B2B Media Co LLC
Looking Ahead at Social Learning - 10 Predictions (Jul 10) plus
charts
The last decade has
brought a multitude of changes in technology and in the learning
function. There are many clues as to what the next 10 years will
have to offer.
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
The Rise of Social Media (Jul 10)
An ASTD-i4cp study makes a strong business case for using social
media to enhance productivity.
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
mLearnCon 2010 - Mobile Gets Real (Jul 10)
What do you get when over 400 people meet in San Diego to review the
state of the art in mobile learning? You get a mind-expanding week
of information, resources, viewpoints, and insights.
Learning Solutions
Magazine,
© 2010 eLearning Guild
The New Imperatives for Learning and HR (Jun 10)
A new Bersin and Associates survey shows that companies are
beginning to invest again in their people. Cost containment is still
a top priority, but accelerating innovation is a close second.
Elearning!,
©2010 B2B Media Co LLC
4 Sourcing Strategies - Which are best for your business? (Jul 10)
There
are many misconceptions about training outsourcing. When should we
outsource, when should we not? But I’m finding many people view
training outsourcing as an either/or decision - either we outsource
or we don’t. I’ve said it many times, “all training organizations
outsource some part of their training activities”. So the better
question is, “what outsourcing strategy should we use?”
©2010 Training Industry Inc
Annual Buyers Guide 2010-11 (Jun 10)
There are more than 330 industry contacts, suppliers and service
providers in this comprehensive guide.
Elearning!,
©2010 B2B Media Co LLC
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Training
Manager/Director Development
Getting Management Support for Training (Jul 10)
“When developing and launching a new training initiative –
traditional classroom, virtual classroom, asynchronous, or a mix –
or suggesting a training solution for an individual worker or group,
it’s vital to gain management commitment. As with so many issues in
training and development, this is another of those “easier said than
done” challenges.
Learning Solutions
Magazine,
© 2010 eLearning Guild
The CLO's Role in Business Transformation (Aug 10)
By exhibiting
strong yet flexible leadership, chief learning officers can play a
significant and often overlooked role in organizational
transformation.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
Building Better Business Acumen (Aug 10)
Developing
business acumen enterprise-wide is a difficult undertaking, but it
meets a critical training and development need as well as restores
much-needed street-cred to the learning function.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
Burp, Chatter, Tweet - New Sounds in the Classroom (Jul 10)
Multitasking has
become commonplace in the classroom, but when does it become
disruptive?
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
An Informal Debate (Aug 10)
Bridging the gap between formal and informal learning
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
The Fast Agenda for CLOs (Aug 10)
Extreme programming to speed up learning and execution
Chief Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec Publishing
Push to Pull - Exploring Training Models (Jul 10)
In a market wanting faster, faster, faster solutions, training
demand is shifting from a push model to the new world of pull
solutions.
Training Industry Quarterly, Summer 2010,
©2010 Training Industry, Inc
Silly Putty Learning (Aug 10)
Agility and
flexibility are key to success in business. CLOs can design the
learning function with the ability to stretch into whatever the
circumstances dictate.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
The Road Ahead (Aug 10)
Seeking advice on charting the way forward
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
The Next Generation of Corporate Universities (Jul 10)
Over the years, many corporate universities have evolved from
providing tactical training to being strategic partners in
organization learning. Stay tuned - the evolution isn’t over yet.
Training Industry Quarterly, Summer 2010,
©2010 Training Industry, Inc
Think Like a CEO - How to Align Training and Communications with
Business Strategy (Jul 10) - charts
here
(warning 18Mb)
This
webinar covers what's important to executive management, aligning
your training and communication goals with those of your company,
speaking the language of business and keeping yourself relevant, and
educating and updating employees in a timely manner.
Citrix Online Webinar, 15 Jul 10
Business Alignment - Beyond Fast-Food Training (Jul 10)
Training professionals often find themselves taking orders,
delivering quickly and serving customers, but this fast-food
approach isn’t ideal. Ask the right questions to create deeper
value.
Training Industry Quarterly, Summer 2010,
©2010 Training Industry, Inc
ASK - Instructor Utilization (Jun 10)
ASK - Instructor Teaching Authorization (Jul 10)
ASK - Learning Partner Royalties (Jun 10)
ASK - What are the advantages of a combined training and
documentation team (Jul 10)
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Selling and Marketing
Education
Using Social Media to Advance Your Online Training Program (Apr 10)
This white paper describes strategies to promote training through
social media marketing, how to engage students for better
interaction and experience with training, and what’s working now
from leading organizations and trainers.
© 2010 Quantum Leap Marketing, Inc
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Learning Methods and Media
A New Taxonomy for Learning (Aug 10)
Forget formal
versus informal. Learning operates in a much more complex matrix. By
understanding that interplay, CLOs can create more effective social
learning strategies, make better investments and improve
performance.
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
Blending Web 2.0 Technologies with Traditional Formal Learning (Jun
09)
This white paper from
Element K explains the many uses of wikis, blogs, and forums in the
context of learning and how best to incorporate these and other
learning modalities into your blended training programs for
leadership development, applications training, compliance, or any
other formal learning initiative.
©2009 Element K Corporation
The Case for Communities of Practice (Aug 10)
Nurturing professional development
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
Adult Learning Principles to Consider When Using Web 2.0 (Jul 10)
Knowing what an adult learner needs is critical when using
technology to gain information.
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
Are you Collaborative? Really! (Jun 10)
Although yesterday’s strategies seemed to work
well, state-of-the-art technology has advanced tremendously over the
last two years. Take this five-minute assessment to see if your
organization has the right focus.
Elearning!, ©2010 B2B Media
Co LLC
Social Networking and Learning (Jul 10)
Social networking technology is helping power learning in new,
collaborative directions. But the same tools are creating challenges
as well.
Training Industry Quarterly, Summer 2010, ©2010 Training
Industry, Inc
Facilitating Learning with Social Media (Jul 10)
No longer will workplace learning and performance professionals be
solely responsible for directing learning, but also for facilitating
the informal learning process through the use of social media.
Here’s some help.
Learning Circuits,
©2010
ASTD
To Be Continued - Using Social Media for Training Conversations (Jul
10)
Entering the
unchartered frontier of social networking can be unnerving. Follow
these simple steps to use social media as the tool to continue
learning conversations in your organization.
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
Social Media in Communities of Practice (Jul 10)
Social media tools can help create a more dynamic community of
practice and provide an ongoing and searchable conversation to
benefit others. To successfully introduce social media into a
community of practice within an organization, there are several
factors that need to be addressed and questions to be asked.
Links +,
©2010 ASTD
9 ways to create a Twitter following (Jul 10)
Go ahead, cozy up to the social media
whores. And work on that avatar ...
©
2010 Entrepreneur Media Inc.
Getting Results from Virtual Instructor-Led Training (Jul 10)
This white paper
promises to guide L&D decision makers through the best approaches to
VILT. In the end, you will understand what actions you can take to
deliver the promised benefits of this rapidly growing delivery mode
of L&D programs.
©2010
Imprint Learning Solutions Inc
Learning in Virtual Worlds (Jul 10)
Technology is marching us toward a virtual world, an immersive, 3D
environment of simulated reality with real possibilities for
business. Is your training ready to make the leap?
Training Industry Quarterly, Summer 2010,
©2010 Training Industry, Inc
How to Design Learning Games (Jun 10) - charts
here
(warning 2+Mb)
This
webinar covers when and when not to use learning games, choosing the
right game style for your learning challenge, developing game-design
skills, ensuring your games cultivate learning, not just fun, and
best-practice game-design processes and tools. Learning and
Skills Group Webinar, 24 Jun 10
ASK - Audio in e-Learning (Jun 10)
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Case Studies and Projects
How Red Hat Does Certification Differently (Jul 10)
Our certification testing is 100% performance based, which means
that they are no questions that can be answered through rote
memorization.
Smart Tips for Learning Executives,
© 2010 Expertus
Virtual Instructor-Led Training - Powerful, not PowerPoint (Jul 10)
With the help of Intrepid Learning Solutions, Autodesk migrated
instructor-led product training to synchronous, virtual training for
hundreds of geographically dispersed learners in a matter of weeks.
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
Improving New Recruits' Performance - A Serious Games Study (Jul 10)
This study reveals how the Royal Navy used Serious Games to improve
training effectiveness in an Engineering Rounds Inspection course on
board ship. Historically, this was the Maritime Warfare School's
worst performing course. Compared to classroom training, the
immersive learning experience of Serious Games improved trainee
capability, cut failure rates by 54% and reduced the need for
additional resource requirements.
©2010
Caspian Learning
M&S and Kineo - Café Service Heroes (Jul 10)
We’ve worked with Marks and Spencer on over 15 projects over the
years. When we were invited to come in to the cafés to take on the
challenge of using e-learning to solve a challenge, we knew it was
going to be something special. We’re delighted with the results –
but never mind us, M&S have achieved great results and saved over
£500,000 in one year.
©2010 Kineo
Deploying Virtual Classrooms - Getting It Done and Doing It Right
(Jul 10)
This webinar describes
how Xerox Learning and Development worldwide organizations offer
virtual classroom solutions to provide
cost-effective and readily accessible training
to more than 20,000 sales and services professionals in North
America, Europe and Developing Market Countries. You’ll hear how
Xerox
leverages the power of virtual classroom sessions
for their learners, using engagement tools such as interactive
instructor-led discussions, PowerPoint presentations, videos,
polling, file-sharing and quizzes.
Training Industry Webinar, 22 Jul 10
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Measuring Education Value
Informal Learning Measurement (Jun 10)
This KnowledgeAdvisors whitepaper focuses on measuring informal
learning. Measurement has become important in formalizing informal
learning. Formalization means that informal learning programs can
garner greater attention for budgets so that they receive care and
feeding and evolve and grow. Measurement can provide reasonable
indicators as to informal learning’s usability, availability,
accessibility, sense of community, quality and effectiveness.
©2010
KnowledgeAdvisors
A Memorandum on Metrics (Aug 10)
Three issues of measurement
Chief
Learning Officer,
©2010 Media Tec
Publishing
Measuring Learning (Jul 10) - charts
here
(warning 2Mb)
Reference materials:
Creating the Successful Learning Enterprise (May 10),
©2010 General Physics
A Primer for the Measurement of Corporate Training (May 09),
©2009 Bersin and Associates
This
webinar discusses the evolution of learning measurement, provides
criteria for an effective measurement process, addresses aligning
training measures with business measures, presents methods for
measuring learning organizational effectiveness, and shares case
examples of learning measurement strategies
Training Industry Webinar, 19 Jul 10
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Processes/Managing
Costs/Outsourcing
Leveraging External Providers (Jul 10)
When looking outside your organization for partners or resources,
it’s important to make the right choices. Experience and flexibility
are just two of the factors that make a difference.
Training Industry Quarterly, Summer 2010,
©2010 Training Industry, Inc
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Training Professional
Topics
Visual Metaphors Help Audiences Grasp Complex Content (Jul 10)
Brilliant thinkers and orators use this technique to
tout their ideas. Scientists instinctively do it when explaining
theories to laypeople. Well-liked public figures are notorious for
employing this method to generate support for their organizations
and businesses.
What is their
secret? Use of visual metaphors, including similes and analogies. ©2010
BizGraphics On Demand
The Value of Making PowerPoint Shapes Invisible (Jul 10)
A shape can be made invisible in PowerPoint. You may be wondering
why would I want a shape to be invisible? What good is a shape if
the audience can’t see it? You will be amazed at what can be done
with invisible shapes. Just because a shape is invisible doesn’t
mean it ceases to exist or stops doing what shapes do.
©2010 Aspire Communications
Four Tricks for Using Novelty to Introduce Yourself and Your Topic
(Jul 10)
Sometimes you need a little extra oomph to begin a training session.
Here are four novel approaches to introduce yourself and the session
topics in unexpected ways.
©2010 Robert W. Lucas
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Education Administration
No articles this month
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Skills
Gap/Technical Certification
Credentials for Success - An Evolution in the IT Industry (Jul 10)
In
today’s competitive market, a combination of online authority and
ongoing skill development through certification is necessary to
demonstrate expertise and increase professional value beyond formal
education.
T+D,
©2010 ASTD
Today's Most In-Demand Certifications (Jul 10)
An industry-recognized certification can provide you with a
competitive edge whether you’re looking for a new position or trying
to advance within your current firm. However, the biggest challenge
when it comes to earning a professional designation is often
determining which one to pursue.
CertMag,
©2010
Media Tec Publishing
The Changing Nature of Certification Renewal (Jul 10)
Why don’t more companies have a certification renewal
process in place?
CertMag,
©2010
Media Tec Publishing
Assessments through the Learning Process (updated Jul
10)
This paper explores how instructors and organizations can use
assessments to improve the learning process. It is designed to help
readers distinguish between different types and styles of
assessments, understand various assessment tools, and learn how to
develop effective assessments, analyze their results and appreciate
the benefits of computerized assessments. ©2010 Questionmark
ASK - Electronic certificates (Jul 10)
ASK - Certification branding (Jul 10)
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Special Interest Groups
CEdMA Training Metrics and Benchmarking SIG (Jul 10)
The meeting looked at the latest metrics spreadsheet and took the
opportunity to go through what we have, and discuss some of the
other metrics that have been submitted. Also covered was the area
that may be the most difficult to actually measure - Return on
Investment or Return on Value.
Training Metrics and Benchmarking SIG, 30 Jul 10
Driving Education Sales by Working Across Company Boundaries (Jul
10) - charts
here
This facilitated discussion was led by Roslyn Jones, Executive
Consultant. Note: the discussion invited attendees to add their
experience in using SEs, Tech Support, Marketing, and other Execs to
successfully influence customers and sales folks.
Sales and
Marketing SIG, 20 Jul 10
ATP Test Security Initiative Update (Jul 10) -
charts
here
Several CertSig members are already active in the ATP Security
Initiative and Cathy Donath provided the group with an update of
this valuable industry initiative to address the issues we all face
around exam security. The initiative provides certifying bodies with
a “common voice” on exam security and has been working on
establishing best practice guidelines and the basis for joint
activities to curb the growth of cheating and illegal activity
around exam IP.
Certification SIG, 8 Jul 10
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