Six top tips on getting the most from your visit to Learning Technologies 2012
Going to Learning Technologies 2012? AccessPlanit’s David Evans gives the community six top tips on getting the most from your visit. For some time annual conference and exhibition events have been delivering the ideal hunting ground for service providers looking to showcase their latest services and products to their target market, and for opportunistic business […]
Bored to death by elearning? Part 1
In the first of two articles on elearning, Andrew Jackson explores the reasons developers often produce deathly-dull courses and why this causes many learners to loathe the medium. If you’ve never had to take a piece of elearning, consider yourself fortunate. For those of you who have, you’ll know what a deathly-dull experience it can […]
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 […]
Anton Bollen: “The future is looking very bright for mobile learning”
At the start of December TrainingZone made its way to Berlin for Online Educa, the world's largest elearning conference for education and technology. We interviewed Anton Bollen of Techsmith who talked to us about the development of elearning over the past year. For more information about TechSmith click here Having trouble streaming? Listen to an […]
Dr Peter Reuter: “We hope eye tracking will be widely available in three years”
At the start of December TrainingZone hot-footed it to Berlin for Online Educa, the world's largest elearning conference for education and technology. We interviewed Dr Peter Reuter of Tobii Technology who told us all about eye tracking. For more information about eye tracking click here Having trouble streaming? Listen to an mp3 of the interview […]
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 […]
Live online learning for improved business performance
Colin Steed looks at how to improve business performance and reduce learning and development costs by using live online learning. In today’s economic climate, we all know that it’s vital to increase the business performance of our organisations to ensure that we can stay ahead. The only way we can do this is by ensuring […]
Towards Maturity report shows L&D focused on learning technologies
L&D professionals are increasingly using learning technologies to help support business agility, according to preliminary results from the UK’s largest learning technology benchmark. Of the 600 organisations that took part in the Towards Maturity benchmark, 72% of companies believe that learning technologies will help them respond faster to changing business conditions, an increase of 11% […]
Learning by doing – using immersive environments
From bioscience to law, Sarah Frame looks at how immersive technology helps learners. Never before have we had access to such a wide variety of tools for learning and teaching as we do now. The advent of the internet, particularly Web 2.0 (the participative web) and social media technologies, combined with lowering of cost barriers, […]
How technology accelerates social learning
What impact are technological developments having on social learning? Clive Shepherd provides some answers. Social learning is, of course, not a new phenomenon. Ever since humans have existed, they have sought each other out to share ideas and solve problems. According to the 70:20:10 model, developed at Princeton University, while 70% of what we learn […]
Five ways to automate training
Technology makes it easier and cheaper to manage training. Dave Evans provides some examples. No matter which industry you work in, at some point technology will revolutionise the way things get done. Just as satellite navigation edged the fold-away road map into the back of the car boot, and email saw off the carefully penned […]
Survey shows impact of technology on leadership development
A study has revealed the growing impact learning technology is having on executive development. The survey of more than 180 organisations in the private, public and not for profit sectors, representing more than 35,000 leaders and managers, showed learning technology now supports a third of all coaching, action learning programmes and workshops. The findings also […]
TZ gears up for World of Learning 2011
The World of Learning Conference & Exhibition, the premier event for business learning, will draw thousands of learning and development (L&D) professionals to the NEC in Birmingham on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 September 2011. Now in its 19th year, the event’s exhibition will bring together around 100 UK and international exhibitors, while the world-renowned […]
Science graduates harder to find
A huge 43% of employers are now finding it difficult to recruit workers with science, technology, engineering and maths skills and so are increasingly paying premium rates for such expertise, according to the CBI. But the employer lobby group’s ‘Education and Skills’ survey of 566 organisations undertaken with the national UK qualifications awarding body EDI […]
Elearning on the rise as budget cuts take hold
Almost two thirds of public sector learning and development professionals are bracing themselves for budget cuts over the year ahead as they find themselves on the front line to make savings. According to a survey of more than 500 trainers undertaken by the IITT, some 63% expect to experience cuts during 2011, a rise of […]
Learning on the move: Is your content fit for purpose?
Gerry Griffin of Skill-Pill M-Learning looks at best practice for designing mobile content. Ten tips for designing mobile learning content Two minutes of content Animation works Conversational style Deliver some smarts Target the 5% remedial or recidivist behaviours Participate: Co-opt users to design content Characterise content by an upcoming event Resist the temptation to put […]
IITT awards winners announced
The winners of the annual IT Training Awards were announced in front of many top industry professionals at a gala awards ceremony held in London last Thursday. The Learning & Development industry turned out in force on Thursday 3 February in support of the IITT’s annual Awards ceremony. The awards started in 1997, and the […]
How do learning technologies benefit the public sector?
ILX’s Eddie Kilkelly explains the complex world of public sector training needs analysis, and the benefits that learning technologies can bring in a post-recession climate. Public sector organisations have some of the biggest and most complex learning needs of any sector. Traditionally, they are most likely to have a comprehensive training strategy, aligned to organisational […]
The role of teachers in learning
Some of L&D’s leading learning technologies thinkers and suppliers discuss the role of teachers in the online learning experience, and look to the future. Hosting clients from all industries, UKFast sits at the heart of the internet and is responsible for looking after the internet fortunes of some of the world’s biggest brands. Some of […]
TrainingZone soundbites: Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia
As online encyclopedia Wikipedia celebrates its 10th birthday, Training Zone met its founder Jimmy Wales. The entrepreneur discusses how he started the hugely popular website, what he thinks of new Q&A community Quora and those infamous fundraising banners. bits://v/WrsAxCiQ-kCMmvSXN Jimmy Wales is co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia Are you going to Learning Technologies? Register for […]
