Making development work – without elearning
Clinton Wingrove and Catherine Mercer Bing have some controversial views about the usefulness of elearning. Read on and see what you think. Globalisation and elearning certainly rate as two of HR’s hot topics. Cognitive science tells us that learning is a process of moving information from short-term to long-term memory and extensive assessment analysis research has […]
Curation fizzes with anticipation
Fresh from his lifetime achievement award win at the Learning Awards, Nigel Paine is back on site with an article extolling the virtues of content curation. Read on… We all get it. There is masses of stuff out there, much of it open source. We know that. Just a cursory glance at iTunesU reveals a […]
We can all give up – 70:20:10 has arrived pt2
Robin Hoyle concludes his controversial feature on the 70:20:10 model. Join in the debate at the bottom of the article… In the first part of this article I outlined a concern that has been bothering me for some time. Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people talking about 70:20:10. Most of these comments seem to represent this […]
We can all give up – 70:20:10 has arrived
We all know the stats. But what do they actually mean, and how accurate are they? Robin Hoyle turns mythbuster for TrainingZone. Trainers like a good buzzword. We also like something which appears scientific, concerned as we are that maybe the rest of the world thinks of us as prone to a bit of mumbo jumbo. If […]
Accredited online colleges on the rise
Nick Johnson discusses the adoption of accredited online courses and programmes in higher education institutions in the United States. In 2010, enrollment for accredited online college courses rose by 10%, which far exceeds the less than 1% growth in the overall student enrollment in higher education institutions generally. In the fall term of 2010 alone, […]
Learning Awards 2012: Vox pops
Last week, TrainingZone ventured east to Park Lane's Dorchester Hotel for the Learning Awards. One of the most prestigious awards ceremonies in the L&D calendar both in the UK and abroad, the Learning Awards have been around in various guises since 1997. Since their inception the training industry has expanded and diversified, just as the […]
Boosting staff efficiency through elearning: A guide for small businesses
Elearning doesn’t have to be the preserve of big business, you know. Learndirect’s Colin McDonald outlines a few pointers for small enterprises. With the holiday season only just ended many small- and medium-sized businesses will be hoping the festive period brought a bit of cheer after tough trading times throughout 2011. Although the economy is […]
Leadership: Why perceptions matter
Birgit Schyns, professor of organisational behaviour at Durham Business School, writes about the perceptions of leadership within organisations. While in the research and practice of leadership we often focus on the leader as a person or his/her behaviour, the role of followers is often neglected. However, followers constitute the context in which leaders operate and […]
Will happen or should happen?
Another of our long-serving members to usher in the New Year with a feature, Robin Hoyle has stopped predicting the future and instead gives us his New Year’s wants list. This is the third year I’ve made a set of predictions about ‘what next in learning and development’, simply because the calendar clicked around another […]
Creativity in L&D – involving employees in the design process
Ruth Moody from Farscape Development considers whether open innovation should be encouraged in training. Whenever I think of the word talent, I think immediately of Simon Cowell and The X Factor. The endless search for a new ‘talent’ – people are churned through and at the end it’s either glory or they fail. Yet some […]
Breaking down language barriers means better business
Armin Hopp, founder and president of dp, suggests ways in which senior managers can assess the organisational requirements for multilingualism. In an increasing globalised corporate environment, the need to communicate effectively is more crucial to business growth than ever before. A study contracted by the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture revealed that […]
Personalised lifelong learning and assessment: The future of training
Continuing our futuristic theme of the month, David Wortley looks at how new technologies can impact on the future of assessment. Imagine a world in which you could learn what most suited your talents and interests and have a career which fully developed your potential through jobs that were ideally suited to your personality. It […]
Going for skills gold
Mark Farrar tells the community how the olympic opportunity was leveraged for construction training. The London 2012 Games are a hot topic, and rightly so. But while the athletes and iconic venues attract a lot of attention, one less reported but similarly important aspect of the Games, is the skills strategy that was put in […]
Scanning the future of learning: The three I’s
The CIPD’s Dr. John McGurk gives his predictions on the future of learning from a talent development perspective. Usually when people are invited to make predictions about how things will be in learning and talent development in the next 5-10 years, it normally results in two basic scenarios. First, there is the tomorrow’s world scenario: […]
What do you want to be?
The in-demand careers of the future will be very different from those of the not so recent past. Lynda Gratton’s research reveals the must-have careers of the future. Three broad career paths will be of value (beyond those that are always of value) over the coming decade: grassroots advocacy, social entrepreneurship and micro-entrepreneurs. Grassroots […]
Learning and development in 10 Years’ time
Power up your hoverboard, don your self-adjusting sneakers and hold tight to that almanac. Nigel Paine takes us back to the future of learning. Terry wakes up. It’s 2 November 2021. Her radio news is punctuated with gentle reminders about the shape of her day and the key to-do’s. She is not going into her […]
The new competency agenda
Some competencies are more valuable than others. Lynda Gratton’s latest research provides a route to the most valued competencies of tomorrow. At any point in time, some competencies are more valuable than others. Generally this is because they are easily seen to create value and others can judge them on these criteria; because they are […]
Growing your own – developing the future workforce
The next generation of skills are going to come from those you nurture from within the organisation, says Robin Hoyle. Before the gardeners among you get all excited about the prospect of veg tips, I’d better explain that I’m talking about managers – or senior team members or just specialists within your organisation. Every year […]
World of Learning 2011: Charles Jennings on learning governance
TrainingZone interviewed Charles Jennings at World of Learning about his keynote on learning governance. Charles Jennings, former chief and learning officer at Reuters and present MD of Duntroon Associates, delivered a keynote address to World of learning entitled: Transforming L&D through effective leraning governance. In his keynote, Jennings outlined his thinking on learning governance, why […]
Social learning – an impossible dream for L&D?
TrainingZone caught up with Clive Shepherd, one of the UK’s foremost experts on e-learning, at the recent Charity Learning Conference, which he was chairing. Shepherd reflected not only on the conference but on some of the broader themes that have been emerging from recent L&D conferences. His views make for interesting, and potentially uncomfortable, listening […]
