Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2014 [LIVE COVERAGE]
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After the break: Boosting your IT skills
How do you brush up on your skills after a career break or after marking time during the recession? Kirstin Donoghue recommends IT training and certification. Our work lives used to be far simpler than they are today. More often than not, entire careers were spent at one company and a break was nothing more […]
The confidence to improve online training
Terry Erdle outlines how employing confidence-based learning, grounded in neuroscience, could help online training fulfill its potential. Online learning tools are changing the face of training, providing improved accessibility, flexibility and mobility. MOOCs, the poster children of online learning, often receive thousands of registrations. However, there is an alarming disparity between enrolment and completion numbers […]
The challenge of CPD and learning technology
Tying with our monthly theme, Tony Sheehan suggests a redefinition of the abbreviation 'CPD'. Continuing professional development (CPD) is seen as a critical component in the performance of many professionals, yet it continues to be interpreted in many different ways. The term highlights three critical and perfectly reasonable requirements to ensure the quality of professional […]
Beyond the brick in the wall
Naveen Narayanan gives the community an insight into how online courses are changing corporate learning and development. The student population is in the middle of a massive mindset shift. Take your typical Gen Y student today. He/she is non-traditional and needs flexibility due to family and work demands. As one can imagine, they form a […]
MOOCs: Research shows employers love them
To add some weight to the MOOCs and CPD discussion, Donald Clark has turned to some research from Duke University. Read on… Despite the sneers from a minority of academics, people continue to make and take them. The MOOC phenomenon is clearly driven by demand, and we can now add ‘employer needs’ to that demand. […]
The future of mobile recruitment: Are you ready?
Mobile is increasingly being used in every part of the HR and training process, as Lumesse's Liliya Apostolova explains. The global talent pool is steadily becoming mobile; using smart devices to search for relevant jobs and even apply for them through mobile apps. According to a recent article in Forbes, 'over a billion job searches […]
Technology: Reaching charity staff other L&D can’t reach.
Martin Baker reveals where charities excel with learning technologies, despite their limited budgets, as well as where they ‘could do better’. Independent research launched at the CIPD L&D Show reveals that charities have become ‘fearless’ in their use of learning technologies, often beating their corporate and public sector counterparts in the benefits they’re reaping. Smart […]
How to prepare your workforce to be future-ready
HCL Technologies' Prithvi Shergill gives the community a glimpse into the future of the workforce. The workplace is one of the areas in our life that has been transformed the most in the past two decades. Technology and social media have revolutionised the way we communicate, interact and work together. With the world surrounding us […]
Learning Technologies: Day two round-up
If you couldn't make the recent event at Kensington Olympia have a read of our day two coverage beneath. The part one round-up can be viewed here. FOOTNOTE NEEDED If you couldn't make the recent event at Kensington Olympia have a read of our day two coverage beneath. The part one round-up can be viewed […]
Learning Technologies: Day one round-up
If you couldn't make it to the recent Learning Technologies event at Kensington Olympia, here's a storified collection of TZ's tweets from the first day. There's a podcast special to come too, so look out for that. If you couldn't make it to the recent Learning Technologies event at Kensington Olympia, here's a storified collection […]
2014: The year video will take the world of learning by storm
It's not the first time that the new year is heralded as the year of video. But Techsmith's Matt Pierce explains why this time, it might actually be the case. By 2016, Cisco predicts that 1.6 billion people will be watching video online, whether that’s in the form of entertainment or how-to tutorials. It’s evident the appetite for […]
LT 2014 keynote preview: Brian Solis
A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Brian Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging technology on business, marketing, and culture. Ahead of his keynote at this week's event we interviewed him about the future of our relationship with workplace technology. Learning Technologies is an opportunity to share and learn from those defining the […]
L&D industry insight: Don Taylor
For this month’s insight we turn to chairman of both the LPI and the Learning and Skills Group, Don Taylor. We talk workplace implementation, desert island L&D tools, his expectations for the upcoming event at Kensington Olympia and more. L&D industry insight: Don Taylor on learning technologies by Trainingzone on Mixcloud For this month’s insight […]
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 […]
L&D industry insight: Donald Clark
For November’s podcast we sat down with L&D’s original firebrand Donald Clark. Formerly the CEO of Epic, Donald now divides his time between TED talks, several blogs, other high profile speaker engagements and trustee work with various charities both national and local to his home of Brighton. You can catch Donald speaking this week at […]
Why the technology industry needs more women
Michelle Perkins thinks young women need to be encouraged to be more than just consumers of technology and play a more active role in ITS creation and development. My 14-year-old niece sent me a WhatsApp message the other day saying “have you got Instagram?” I might work for a global IT company but my social networking […]
TrainingZone interviews: Mark McCusker
Mark McCusker, Chair of the British Assistive Technology Association (BATA) and CEO of Texthelp Ltd discusses the effects that dyslexia has on employees in the workplace and the simple but highly effective changes that employers can make to support them during Dyslexia Awareness Week (14-20th October 2013). How would you describe dyslexia in the workplace? […]
The life of videos [infographic]
Screen capture experts Techsmith sent us this infographic illustrating perfectly the difference between the various types of video content. The TechSmith ‘Life of Videos’ infographic illustrates the key findings, personifying each type of video to illustrate how it is ideally enjoyed by the different audiences. Click on the image to view it at full size […]
Bringing screencast training to the voluntary sector: A case study
Concluding our theme of the month, we look at how KnowHow NonProfit are benefitting from video screen capture. KnowHow NonProfit (currently part of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations) is an online support site for individuals working in the charity and voluntary sector in the UK. The site aims to provide charities and voluntary organisations […]