A Survivor’s Guide to E-Learning
The eLearning Network is running a free Survivor’s Guide to eLearning at the Learning Technologies Exhibition at Olympia, London on 30 January. The event offers everyone working in elearning the opportunity to listen and learn from a range of experienced elearning campaigners as well as address some of their own particular issues and concerns.Clive Shepherd […]
Internet education plan gives m-learning a £30 million jump start
The UK government has triggered a major push by mobile companies to establish services for mobile learning (m-learning) with a £30 million universal internet access programme for schoolchildren. John Stokdyk reports.At the BETT education technology event on 9 January, minister for schools Jim Knight announced that a further £30 million was going into the universal […]
Through the Portal Into Interactive Learning
To prepare for his role as technology editor for TrainingZone, John Stokdyk embarks on a voyage of discovery into the interactive possibilities of the latest digital tools. The world of training can play with the preconceptions for anyone more used to frontline operations. Someone anticipating a quieter, less frenetic environment of worthy textbooks, classroom sessions […]
E-Learning at the Crossroads
Clive Shepherd, chair of the e-learning Network, looks back over the last 10 years of e-learning, and says we all need to ‘think outside the box’ if e-learning is to progress over the next decade. E-learning comes with baggage. The term may be only 10 years old but the concept goes back as far as […]
Police Service Technology Conference Scheduled
The Police Service’s foremost forum on learning methodologies and their associated technologies – the Policing Learning Technologies conference – takes place on 2 April.This attracts leading learning experts from the Police and the wider community, with more than 12 speakers and 120 delegates expected for the day.According to a conference spokesperson: “Learning methodologies and technologies […]
Marketing Institute Revises E-Learning Materials
The Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) is updating its e-learning materials relating to its professional qualifications programme – leading to both diploma and certificate level qualifications.Trainer1 has been given the job of revising and updating the materials to take account of current marketing trends and developments in practice.Neil Morris, the IDM’s deputy managing director, commented: […]
International Learning Provider Awarded for Corporate Social Responsibility
Global learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems(TIS), has received an award for corporate social responsibility.The Readers’ Digest Pegasus CSR Awards recognise outstanding work done by socially conscious companies in India. The awards identify best practices and innovations by Indian companies in fulfilling their responsibilities to diverse stakeholders. In this way, Readers’ Digest, the largest selling English […]
Growing Pains: The Emergence of E-Learning. By Annie Hayes
E-learning has enjoyed a love-hate relationship with most learning and development departments since its advent, and has experienced a fair few teething problems along the way; yet more and more are falling under its spell. Annie Hayes reports. If you are reading this you may already have a burgeoning interest in e-learning or at least […]
The eLearning Network Announces New Chairman
The eLearning Network (eLN), the association for users and developers of all forms of eLearning, has appointed Clive Shepherd its new chairman.“I’m proud to be given the chance to help steer the eLearning Network through an exciting period of growth and change. ELearning is growing rapidly, not only in its uptake but also in the […]
E-learning Fails to Grasp Senior Execs
Senior managers are turning their backs on online learning opportunities, according to a new study.Figures published by the Chartered Management Institute and Centre for Applied Human Resource Research, show that whilst internet access is readily available for 90 per cent of senior managers, 67 per cent spend 30 minutes or less using company intranets, the […]
New MD at Epic
Jonathan Satchell has been appointed as the new managing director of e-learning specialists Epic.Satchell’s history in the UK e-learning industry includes having been the CEO and owner of EBC from 1997 to 2006, which he sold Futuremedia.He said of his new role: “I am looking forward to the challenge of leading Epic in the next […]
The Serious Game of Politics
Gordon Brown joins a virtual Paris Hilton, Alistair Darling and Keira Knightley as 3D characters in a new downloadable game from educational simulation specialist, PlayGen.SeriousPolicy Game isn’t satire, it sees the player on a mission to win Treasury funding for a new policy. It is designed to be an example of how computer games can […]
Lifting The Lid On Virtual Classrooms. By Annie Hayes
Clive Shepherd, Blended Learning Director at the Training Foundation explains the pros and cons of virtual classroom learning. What is a virtual classroom? Anything with the word ‘virtual’ attached prompts a perception of newness and modern-day wizardry but Clive Shepherd explains that in fact virtual classrooms are far from novel having been around for the […]
Accelerate your E-Learning
Eddie Kilkelly looks at how to accelerate the adoption of e-learning in your organisation and create the time and space for learners to use it. Two conflicting schools of thought exist on the subject of e-learning: Firstly, among buyers, that e-learning will rapidly be adopted and can be used to generate significant business benefits; Secondly, […]
The Game of Student Survival
‘Student Survivor’, an online game that provides key information about student finances, has been accessed by more than two million people since its launch in April 2005.It has also earned the companies behind it a Regional National Training Award.The game, which explains bursaries, loans, grants and repayment thresholds, is aimed at encouraging more students from […]
Virtual Reality Learning
Graeme Duncan, chief operating officer at Caspian Learning, argues that 3D games are a realistic and essential solution for corporate training programmes. As organisations learn to cope with ever-changing product ranges, additions to health and safety policies, new financial regulations and legalisation compliance issues, they face the challenge of finding more effective ways to train […]
Beyond Recognition: Success at the SSAs
There may have been many rivals at the Business Software Satisfaction Awards (SSAs) but the winners were all united in praising their customers for making it such a successful night.Spanning several categories, including accounting and finance, HR and training and customer relationship management (CRM), the awards were voted for by consumers. As many of the […]
Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2007: The Results
More than 300 people gathered for a glittering ceremony at The Brewery in London on Tuesday 9 October for the 2007 Business Software Satisfaction Awards organised by Sift Media, publisher of TrainingZone. The 2007 awards cover suppliers who serve members of all of Sift Media’s online professional communities, including TrainingZone, HR Zone, AccountingWEB, FinanceWeek, BusinessZone, […]
Advice on Virtual Classrooms
E-learning expert Clive Shepherd, will be hosting a free webinar on the benefits of virtual classrooms next month.Shepherd, blended learning director of The Training Foundation, will discuss what it takes to successfully take online learning classrooms to the next level. Topics covered will include: Why real-time communication is important in learning interventions. The features of […]
Serious Games Tackle Serious Issues
A Welsh university has launched an innovative new range of online learning materials including free interactive games that help people explore topics such as disability, age diversity, racial equality and homelessness.The ‘Addressing Barriers: Enhancing Services’ series of Equality and Diversity toolkits, which incorporate expert video tutorials alongside interactive ‘Bytesize Basics’ serious games, have been developed […]