Interactivity – engaging learners successfully in soft-skills training
Stefan Lloyd of Essentia looks at how to make the most of interactivity and deliver a full and effective soft skills e-learning programme. I particularly like Katy Campbell’s observation on interactivity:In good instruction, interactivity refers to active learning, in which the learner acts on the information to transform it into new, personal meaning.I would like […]
The problem with e-learning – what about tutor skills?
Peter Miles continues our inquiry into the obstacles to success with elearning, by considering tutor skills. I have been working as an online tutor for over two years on the National Professional Qualification for Headship. The key aim of this programme is to develop leadership skills in potential headteachers. I am also responsible for a […]
Why e-learning often fails
We’ve heard a lot about the limitations of e-learning, but exactly why have some organisations succeeded where others have failed? Kieran Levis finds some answers in the first of four articles based on his own research into the development of e-learning internationally. Kieran is the principal of Cortona Consulting and the author of The Business […]
E-Learning – The next great disappointment?
Kim Coe, CEO of the The How2 Group, compares e-learning with the dotcom boom and bust, and calls for simplicity and more attention to communication, to avoid following that pattern. Talk to anyone involved in trying to get their organisation to embrace E-Learning and you are likely to find that the most common problem is […]
Answer our questions about your experiences of e-learning
We want your answers to these questions about your experiences of e-learning. Go on, mail us with your reactions, or post them below. 1. Is maintaining participation in e-learning as a problem?2. Does e-learning give the trainer more or less control over a group of learners?3. What is your preferred method of delivery (or blend […]
E-learning content – the rules of engagement
This month’s features and discussions have already identified learning design quality as a major area of concern, so we are moving on to examine this area in more detail. In order for e-learning to achieve its full potential, custom course content must engage. Without engagement it is unlikely to meet critical aims and objectives, or […]
The search for the holy e-learning recipe, part 2 – Choosing learning channels
In the second part of an indepth study, E-learning Consultant and Content Designer Don Morrison looks at how organisations can choose a learning channel from the growing number of options.Part One Learning channels don’t map directly to content types.The most effective approach to channel selection is strategy.For example, it’s generally accepted that e-learning can make […]
Don’t use e-learning just to save costs! – CIPD research
The CIPD has released the results of research on e-learning success. These will surprise nobody:“Making generic e-learning products available to unsupported volunteer learners might deliver training budget cost savings, but it does not advance learning in the organisation,” according to Martyn Sloman, the author of E-learning, The learning Curve, a study of ten organisations who […]
The search for the holy e-learning recipe – learning channels and strategy
In the first part of an indepth study, E-learning Consultant and Content Designer Don Morrison interrogates e-learning and blended learning, and wonders if we have been asking the right questions.Part Two “Distance Learning is a conflicted arena of human endeavor if there ever was one. Actually, in Education there is nothing so insignificant that it […]
The problem with e-learning – lack of design skills
Brian Holley, Managing Director of Sherpa Integrated Learning Ltd, continues our exploration of where and why e-learning is underperforming. The fundamental problem with e-learning is the lack of learning design skills among those who produce it. Using the term ‘TBT’ (Technology Based Training) as a generic term for all kinds of electronically delivered learning, the […]
The problem with e-learning…
E-learning offers great opportunities, but what are the real obstacles? What restricts or undermines all that potential? An e-learning consultant gives his view below. Post your own comments below, or email us. I understand the principles and practicalities of how adults learn with e-learning, and have enough reference material to indicate that this form of […]
Advertising feature: Investors in People Leadership and Management Model
The leading questionAs TrainingZONE’s feature last month showed, leadership is top of the agenda for large and small employers alike. It is recognised that good leadership, in any organisation, leads to intelligent investment, enhanced creativity, improved productivity and better all round performance.In particular, UK organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of succession planning of leaders […]
Knowledge management and e-learning in the public sector
Despite a severe lack of funding and outdated working models, the public sector is under immense pressure to meet the same customer and employee satisfaction levels as global commercial businesses. Christoph Michel, CEO of Hyperwave, looks at how local government can provide an environment where knowledge can be shared and used for continuous training to […]
Buying and using an LMS: a hype-free guide – Learning Technologies report
A conference session at Learning Technologies last week explored the issue of buying an LMS. Chaired by Vaughan Waller, it featured two speakers from the vendors’s side, David Wilson (Managing Director of eLearnity) and Neil Lasher (Chairman, e-Learning vendors’ Association), and two from the buyers’, Andy Wooler (Manager, LMSs, Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group […]
Can you use e-learning for soft skills?
Ken Stewart, Consultant at the Berkshire Consultancy looks at whether e-learning should really be restricted to some subjects. Can so called ‘soft-skills’ be learned purely online? As e-learning continues to expand it is beginning to enter skill areas which, on the face of it, do not lend themselves so easily online delivery. Of course, many […]
Why organisations misallocate training budgets – e-learning feature
Christiaan Heyning, General Manager of ICUS UK, suggests that companies are leaping in before they know how e-learning can work for them, and ignoring the changemanagement requirements. Increasingly, almost all companies are engaging in some kind of eLearning, or are in the midst of implementing it. For example, in 2001 European companies spent GBP 224millionon […]
The future of e-learning – Learning Technologies preview
Charles Gould, managing director of BrightWave, who is speaking at next week’s Learning Technologies Conference, and Lars Hyland give their views on what the future holds. TrainingZONE What do you see as the growth ares of e-learning for the near future?Charles Gould, BrightWave MD The track for e-learning is the IT infrastructure (high bandwidth networks, […]
Collaborative learning – Learning Technologies preview
Howard Hills explores collaborative learning and preferences for it, as an introduction to his session at the forthcoming Learning Technologies Conference, where he and Clare Howard will be presenting some of the findings of their ongoing research to explore the link between personality characteristics and e-learning activities. The biggest single difference between Technology-based Training and […]
The cost of developing e-learning – feature
Creating high quality e-learning materials which will engage learners is a complex business because it involves many different disciplines in so many different circumstances.Quite rightly the e-learning vendor community and clients alike have looked for a simple way of expressing the cost. The result is a cost per hour of learning. This can be anywhere […]
Softworld HR and Payroll 2003
Welcome to the Softworld Human Resources and Payroll home page on HR Zone. This year’s show takes place on 26-27 February 2003, Hall N8, ExCeL, London. Now in its 11th year, Softworld HR and payroll provides visitors with an opportunity to assess a range of different HR and payroll software systems and meet providers in […]