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 […]
IT Skills Shortfall Set to Impact on Economy, BCS Warns
The UK faces a serious shortfall of highly-qualified IT professionals within the next three years, according to the British Computer Society.The professional body for IT expects there to be a 25% shortfall of computer science graduates by 2009.Professor Nigel Shadbolt, President of the BCS said that the lack of graduates would impact on the UK […]
Free Diversity E-learning Tool
In just over seven years, only a fifth of the workforce will be white, able-bodied, male and under 45, according to Acas, which today launches its first equality and diversity online learning tool.The e-learning focuses on sexual orientation and gender reassignment and aims to assess an organisation’s position and how any issues can be further […]
Authoring Tools: Beyond the Hype
So you’re thinking about buying an authoring tool… Bamboozled by the marketing hype? Confused by the panoply of options? Unsure about what to buy and then when you’ve bought, what to do with it? Stephen Walsh of Kineo outlines five questions to help you make the right selection. With such a wide range of rapid […]
ITQ Learners get Passport to Success
Candidates registering for an ITQ qualification in one of British Computer Society centres are to get portable electronic record of their achievements.The e-skills Passport will include an assessment of candidates existing skills and an ITQ target profile before commencing training.Created by e-skills UK, it will also help candidates and training providers plan and monitor progress […]
E-Learning Prices Fall as Market Picks Up
The e-learning market is growing fast, but prices are falling, according to new research.Open Source solutions like Moodle, competition and inexpensive hosted services are among the factors cited for falling prices in the report from Ambient Insight, which focuses on the US market.Ambient Insight says the e-learning industry has begun to grow again after several […]
SkillSoft Buys NETg
E-learning giant SkillSoft has agreed a $285 million deal to acquire NETg from Thomson Corporation.The sale is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2007.Chuck Moran, CEO of SkillSoft. said the move would bring a wider range of solutions to the customers of both SkillSoft and NETg. “By combining the two organisations we […]
Tap into Open Acess OU
Trainers and learners will be able to tap into hours of Open University resources as the organisation launches a free open access Internet service. Under the £5.65m OpenLearn project, the OU aims to make 5,000 hours’ worth of material available by April 2008 not only for learners, but for educators to adapt and use for […]
The Promises And Perils Of Talent Management Software
It’s a business cliché that your most valuable asset is your people, but one that is true for most organisations. So it’s not surprising that companies spent more than $3 billion in 2005 on software designed to monitor, manage, evaluate and motivate their employees. Talent management software can potentially reduce costs such as recruitment, training […]
The Way I See It … What Makes E-learning Work Today
Early predictions of e-learning as a replacement for face to face learning were misplaced. Instead, it has been recognised that an integrated programme of face to face events and e-learning modules combined with other learning tools and applications can be both highly effective for learners, economical and efficient for the organisation. Although this type of […]
