E-Learning Makes Up 4% of UK Training Provision
E-learning represents 3-4% of private sector training provision in the UK according to research by Epic.The company said this confirms its view that e-learning is past the stage of “innovators” on the adoption bell curve and into “early adopters”.“Many organisations are growing more mature in their use of learning technologies,’ says Matt Gokhool, CEO of […]
E-Learning Study Forecasts Growth in Informal Learning Networks
New research shows that organisations are widely planning to invest in informal learning networks.Three out of four employers who use e-learning for staff training plan to significantly increase their use of informal networks over the next three years, according to e-skills UK research.The study highlights how organisations use and benefit from different types of e-learning, […]
IT Training Celebrates its Winners
The Training Camp has been named training company of the year for the second year running.The company won the accolade at the Institute of IT Training awards (IITT), it is the first time that the same company has triumphed twice in succession.Another company scooping two awards was Thomson Scientific, whose global learning and development team […]
Training Business News in Brief
Helmsley Fraser Commits to TAPLearning provider Hemsley Fraser Group has announced a policy commitment to the TAP (Trainer Assessment Programme) Learning System, the training skills certification programme administered by The Training Foundation.Under the requirements of the TAP Partners Programme, Hemsley Fraser’s learning professionals will achieve TAP certification following participation in a skills refresher and assessment […]
Ask The Expert: Compliance Training
What’s the most effective way to deliver compliance training, and how can you be sure that the staff retain the information? Mike Ditchburn offers his opinion. The question! am looking to implement a process where key compliance training courses (DPA, AML, etc) are attended by new starters within their first month and then they complete […]
The Future for E-Learning
David Wilson is founder and Managing Director of Elearnity and one of the leading authorities on learning innovation and e-learning in Europe. He speaks to TrainingZONE about the present and the possibilities for e-learning. Has e-learning come of age, or does it still have some way to go before it reaches its potential?An interesting question […]
Conference Highlights
Informal learning, aligning L&D to business needs and trends for learning; Don Taylor, Chairman of the Learning Technologies Conference, offers an overview of some of the highlights of this year’s event. This year’s Learning Technologies Conference reflects some of the strong themes that have emerged in 2006, and look set to continue developing throughout 2007. […]
E-Learning Content Creation on a Shoestring
On Trainer1’s stand at this year’s Learning Technologies exhibition will be a suite of e-learning content creation tools each of which sells for less than £100.The learning consultancy says the tools include animation and puzzles, as well as morphing tools which enable content to be delivered via a ‘realistic talking head’.Also on show at the […]
Lighting the Way for E-Learning
Learning Light, a non-profit centre of excellence which highlights and promotes best practice in the use of learning technologies in the workplace, has examples of the latest games-playing technologies on its stand at this year’s Learning Technologies exhibition.The future shape of e-learning delivery is the theme of Learning Light’s stand at this year’s Learning Technologies […]
M-Learning and Gaming – Fad or the Future?
Ron Edwards and Sarah Lindsell, two of the world’s foremost minds on mobile learning and learning gaming, aim to help training professionals cut through the hype about using these technologies for learning.Ron Edwards is the managing director of Ambient Performance, specialises in innovative learning and in the application of leading edge technology. His presentation: “Podcasting, […]
ICT Skills Gaps at 12-Month Peak
Skills gaps for ICT professionals have reached their highest level for over a year, according to e-skills UK. The Sector Skills Council for IT and Telecoms also reports that just under one in five UK employers reported skills gaps for employees who use technology in their everyday work – the highest level since the end […]
Psychometrics Spotlight: Testing Times – The FIRO-BTM Personality Questionnaire
In the latest of this series putting the range of psychometric tests under the spotlight we look at the FIRO-BTM personality questionnaire developed by Will Schutz. The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations OrientationTM – Behaviour (FIRO-BTM) personality questionnaire was developed by Will Schutz, whose wish it was to provide an understanding of the fundamental differences between people […]
Technology and the Team
Being miles apart, whether tens or thousands, is no longer a barrier to team working thanks to technology, yet staff are often slow to grasp these opportunities. Kelly Low, sales director of Premiere Global Services, looks at collaborative technologies and their implications for training. According to new research from Frost and Sullivan1, collaboration is a […]
Three Years of E-Learning on a Shoestring
Leonard Cheshire, the UK’s leading disability care charity, has found that the best approach to cost-effective skills development in the voluntary sector involves the consortium approach. Now, three years on, Craig Brown, Leonard Cheshire’s IT training manager, discusses what has been learned and achieved. In 2002 Leonard Cheshire was approached to join a consortium of […]
Managers Struggle with Burden of Information
Middle managers claim to spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong. A survey of more than 1,000 middle managers of large companies in the US and UK found that managers spend up to two hours a day […]
Invest in Informal Learning – Says Training Body
Informal learning needs a greater slice of training budgets, according to the president of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) in the UK.Lasher of Trainer1 and developer of the ‘Five ‘A’s of learning’ instructional design said that too often the potential of e-learning was “misunderstood”, with designers relying on classroom-based instructional design technques.Instead […]
Top 20 IT Training Company in Administration
PPI Learning Ltd, the IT and professional skills training company formerly known as Spring IT Training, is in administration in the UK.The company, rated 13th in revenue by IT Skills Research, has centres in London, Birmingham and Manchester and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Training Partner. Despite a turnover of £11.5m in 2005 the company […]
Majority of Training Predicted to go Online
A poll of senior HR professionals has revealed that they expect online learning to form the single, largest part of their organisations future training delivery.More than 55 senior HR professionals from organisations including Barnados, Deloitte, BT, LloydsTSB, O2 and Prudential took part in the live poll during an event about The future of learning, sponsored […]
Case Study: Training Management Software at CORGI
This TrainingZONE case study sets out to throw some light on how training management software can help organisations gain better control of their training and development spend by maintaining accurate, up-to-date records of employee qualifications and courses attended. The subject for this report will be the gas appliance fitters’ inspectorate, CORGI, where automated training management […]
Complimentary Courses Tackle Bullying in the Workplace
Three courses aimed at dealing with bullying in the workplace are now available at the demonstration area of the Skillsoft website.The unabridged courses, entitled: ‘Difficult People in the Workplace’; ‘Harassment at Work’ and Working with Aggressive People’, last three to four hours, but the e-learning company says these can also be dipped into.Kevin Young, Managing […]