Insight: Parents baffled about best educational route for school leavers
Almost half of parents are confused about the education and training options available to their children after they leave school and university, according to new research. This has left a third of parents feeling unable to advise their children about the best career path to take, the study by City & Guilds found. The survey […]
Five ways to successfully nurture your social channels
Are you making the most of your social media activity? Toke Kruse gives us some short sharp pointers. Are social media really important? Well, Facebook has about 1bn users, Instagram hosts 150m shutterbugs, and Twitter boasts 93m micro-bloggers. Need I say more? If you’re a marketing specialist tasked with maintaining social channels, here are some best […]
Does all elearning need to be mobile? Part two
Today’s business professional never leaves home without their smartphone; an extension of the tech-savvy’s life. With it they’ll surf the web, look for data, and keep themselves entertained. But does that mean that all elearning now has to be mobile too? Melanie Small concludes her feature. As organisations and individuals invest in both high technology […]
News: Employers must invest in workplace of tomorrow, says Skills Minister
Skills minister Matthew Hancock has called on employers to play a greater role in inspiring and motivating young people about the world of work to ensure skills are improved. In a speech at the Future Talent conference in London yesterday, Hancock said his priority was to “bridge the divide” between academic and vocational education and […]
Insight: Businesses call for reform of education system
The education system must better prepare school leavers for the world of work or “risk wasting their talents”, according to a new report. The annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills survey has revealed that a third of employers are concerned about school leavers’ attitude to work, and 61% feel young people lack resilience and self-management. The […]
Learning Live: The story so far
The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) holds its annual conference, Learning Live, this year on 10 and 11 September. We caught up with CEO, Colin Steed, and events manager, Nicki Kettle, to find out about the history of the conference and why it is fast becoming the most talked about event in the L&D calendar. […]
Modernising learning: How to overcome barriers to change
In part four of the serialisation of the Towards Maturity New Learning Agenda, Laura Overton considers the big barriers to modernising learning and lessons from top learning companies on how to overcome them. Change is all around us. Technology has changed, the way people work has changed and people’s expectations of work have changed. This […]
Insight: UK needs ‘stronger’ vocational education
Certain areas of the economy are experiencing a “mismatch” between the skills and qualifications that employers require and those actually held by workers, according to a new report that warns that vocational education must be improved. The study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that 39% of vacancies in skilled trades are […]
Why your business needs a managed LMS
Paul Service of Comms Learning examines how organisations can gain relatively quick, inexpensive entry into sophisticated learning technology using a managed service. What is a managed LMS? A managed LMS is when a third party provides and manages your learning management system for you. Users of managed LMSs fall into one of two categories. Either […]
TrainingZone interviews: MyKindaCrowd’s William Akerman
How do you spot talent? When do you start? How do you get young people engaged in the world of work? William Akerman from social enterprise MyKindaCrowd is a man with a few ideas and we emailed him recently. Consumer technology such as smartphones: Empowering or distracting from the learning experience for young people? Smartphones and […]
Turning data into insight and insight into action
Towards Maturity, the organisational development and learning experts, have sliced and diced their latest research and serialised it exclusively for TrainingZone. Here, MD Laura Overton gives us an overview of what to look forward to. The world is changing faster than ever before; driven by technology, we have digitally-savvy workforces and digitally-savvy customers and the traditional silos of […]
How to be objective about ROI pt3
In the last part of this series, Krystyna Gadd concludes her practical look at ROI for trainers and training departments. Let us now look at how we start to write some great objectives that will help us give the stakeholders what they are looking for. Putting it into practice – Setting objectives for delivering 'feedback […]
How to be objective about ROI pt2
In the second of this three part series, Krystyna Gadd carries on her practical look at ROI for trainers and training departments. Defining ROE and how it relates to ROI If you can calculate ROI and demonstrate to stakeholders that their investment has been worthwhile, then your perceived value to the organisation, as an L&D […]
How to be objective about ROI
In the first of three parts, Krystyna Gadd takes a practical look at ROI for trainers and training departments. Writing objectives for training is not sexy, exciting or what trainers really want to do, but in this article, I will show you how to make it so simple that this missing piece of the jigsaw […]
Training Qualifications
Hi all, I’ve seen previous threads regarding this topic, but i’m still a little baffled. I want to develop in the Training field. I am currently a trainer and have been for 12 months. I am looking to back that up with a formal qualification. I’ve come across TAP and CIPD. CIPD seems to aim […]
Free resource: Happiness kit
It's international happiness day! Who is your happiness going to rub off on today? If you still need a hand turning that frown upside down then TZ's resident workplace wellness expert Liggy Webb has given us this handy happiness kit. Just click on the picture or the attachment link for instant joy. For more info […]
Six things you need to know about neuroscience to help develop learning
How do we make learning stick? The CIPD's Ruth Stuart tackles the grey matter to give us an insight into how we might make that happen. Brain plasticity – that is, how much our brain connectivity, function and structure can change in response to learning – is possible throughout our lives. Our brains are most […]
21 thoughts on mobile learning
Amit Garg from tablet and mobile experts Upside Learning has put together this great list of quotes about the smartphone explosion. What do you think? Mobile is the future of workplace learning. It's not just a statement, but something I believe in. There are many thinkers in the domain that I follow, learn, and get […]
L&D industry insight: Philipp Schmidt
Philipp Schmidt is executive director of Peer 2 Peer University, a community for social open learning, and is currently based in the MIT Media Lab. TrainingZone caught him as he stepped off stage from his keynote on day two of this year’s conference. As you can imagine, the interview is full of big ideas and […]
Making the future happen
Karoline Strauss explains why it's worth taking a long-term view of your working life. Being proactive means being self-starting, and trying to bring about change in order to achieve a better future [1]. Researchers and practitioners alike increasingly emphasise the value of a proactive approach at work [2], and in relation to careers [3]. In […]
