Move over PowerPoint
Forget PowerPoint, Matt Pierce shares his top tips for improving your training efforts with screencasting. As learning technologies become an ever more present feature on the training landscape, learning and development professionals are finding new ways to make training simpler, quicker and more effective. One example is the introduction of short video tutorials, known as […]
The love/hate trainers and technology debate
Trainers may be renowned for their lack of affinity with technology, but, says Martin Addison, times are changing. There’s a celebrated, and much-copied, cartoon that depicts a medieval battle, in which a king suited in armour gruffly tells an aide, as the arrows fly by, that he doesn’t have time to see a salesman. Behind […]
ETrack online portfolio launches for BPP’s AAT students
Jon Wilcox takes a look at the new online course tracker available to accounting students. Following a pilot scheme earlier in the year, BPP’s ETrack online portfolio launched last month, enabling AAT students (and their assessors) to track their course performance and submit work, and messages, to their assessor. ETrack’s launch marks the first time […]
Engage or die
How can organisations breed a strong culture of ‘self learning’ and what can training managers do to engage and support staff? Robin Hoyle explains. It’s no secret that most people find it difficult to self-learn. It is not easy. Regardless of this organisations increasingly expect employees to do even more learning on their own; in their own […]
ALT-C 2009: Education embraces learning technologies
The hottest trends in learning technology and fusing Facebook with further education; Catherine Dhanjal reports from this year’s ALT Conference. Over 700 delegates attended the Association for Learning Technology’s annual conference held in September while in the true spirit of the event, many more joined keynote and invited speaker sessions remotely online. “If you don’t […]
Tackling technology in training
With technology permeating every aspect of work life, staying up-to-date with the latest advances can be a strain. Ray Lawrence offers his tips for introducing elearning. Many organisations have been less advanced in the use of technology compared to their counterparts in education, but are now starting to catch up with further and higher education […]
Keep the faith
Have we lost our faith in our learners? Ken Ingram discusses how technology has given learners a new lease of life. Ever since we crawled out the water on to dry land we have survived and thrived through our ability to learn. It strikes me that much of this is pretty innate within us. We […]
How to build a social learning culture
Harness the power of social media technology and challenge traditional barriers to learning. Lars Hyland explains how. Resisting the rush to social media feels a bit like trying to push water back up a waterfall doesn’t it? A fairly futile exercise. Why is it so popular? Well, homo sapiens are a particularly social, pack-like species […]
Are you an elearning xenophobe?
Despite our high ranking in the elearning league tables it seems we are afraid to engage with the rest of Europe. But are we cutting off our nose to spite our face? Bob Little reports. Some 16 years or so ago, an EC report purported to show that the UK was third in an EC […]
The evolution of learning technology
Technology correspondent Jon Wilcox takes a look at the past, present, and future of learning technology. In the beginning, there was nothing. Actually, that’s not strictly true; at the beginning of learning technology there was the classroom with a trainer standing in front of a chalk board or overhead projector (OHP). Like Churchill’s famous “This is not […]
How to maximise PowerPoint: Part three
In the third of our mini-guides to maximising the potential of PowerPoint, we look at how to animate charts in your presentations. bits://v/YCeZp34N-58072-36800 See our other guides to maximising PowerPoint: ‘How to keep slides consistent’ and ‘How to add audio.’ Videos created exclusively for TrainingZone.co.uk by TechSmith. In the third of our mini-guides to maximising […]
A short history of elearning
Clive Shepherd and Laura Overton take a look back over learning technology’s recent history and argue that trainers need to get with the times. Download Clive and Laura’s booklet: ‘What every L&D professional needs to know about e-learning.’ Change and opportunity Surprising as it may seem, most educational and training methods are relatively timeless. Most of […]
How to maximise PowerPoint: Part two
In the second of our mini-guides to maximising the potential of PowerPoint, we look at how to use audio more effectively in your presentations. bits://v/IxZepfdk-58072-36800 See our last guide to maximising PowerPoint – how to keep slides consistent – by clicking here. Videos created exclusively for TrainingZone.co.uk by TechSmith. In the second of our mini-guides […]
Hacker training: Fighting fire with fire
As IT security continues to hit the headlines, Jon Wilcox looks at the next generation of hackers set to do battle with the online marauders. Maintaining IT network security is an issue for small businesses, multi-nationals, and governments alike; the threat from hackers remains very real indeed. British citizen, Gary McKinnon is currently appealing against […]
How to maximise PowerPoint: Part one
Following the enormous popularity of our recent PowerPoint tips for trainers, we bring you a series of PowerPoint video tutorials from TechSmith to help you maximise your presentation potential. In the first of our videos, we look at guidelines to keep slides consistent. bits://v/7Ti06InW-58072-36800 See our other guides to maximising PowerPoint: ‘How to add audio‘, ‘How to animate […]
Social networking: The future of learning
Have you joined the social networking revolution? Kirstie Donnelly looks at how these online tools can enhance the learning experience. The proliferation of social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter is changing the way we interact with each other. Take the fact that in May 2009, 734 million people visited at least one social […]
Recap Exercises
I have been running a number of week-long training programs that are pretty intensive in that they contain a lot of technical knowledge. I have been trying to include as many practical and fun elements as I can but am running out of ideas for fun recap exercises to do. I usually split the attendees […]
How to win friends and influence people
In the effort to deliver more for less, organisations are increasingly turning to learning technologies yet while they offer great promise, staff resistance can often hinder their success. Laura Overton gives her hints and tips on how to engage managers and learners. At last month’s Learning and Skills group event, I was involved in a […]
Are they listening at the back? PowerPoint tips for trainers
John Stokdyk looks to the TrainingZone community for advice on how to create successful PowerPoint presentations. Many members have added their comments below – keep them coming! And why not join the PowerPoint users discussion group on site? Our thanks to Garry Platt for the great ‘How Not to Use PowerPoint’ YouTube find. One of the […]
Social networks and internet need to be ‘interwoven’
The social networks and internet of tomorrow will mean existing as an ‘internet of subjects’ with our digital identities ‘interwoven together’, according to the views of Serge Ravet, chief executive of EifEL. Addressing delegates at the Learning Forum London this week, Ravet called for developers to create an e-portfolio that can capture our digital stories […]