BBC under fire for e-learning plans
The BBC is being criticised for its plans to use the licence fee to offer free online interactive learning packages to schools. Other e-learning providers have expressed concern about the effect on the market of a major provider who does not need to make a profit from its services.This situation is another in a line […]
SmartForce and SkillSoft to merge
SmartForce and SkillSoft have announced an agreement to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction. The combination will create a major player in corporate e-Learning. The two portfolios should complement each other, with SmartForce’s focus on IT, enterprise applications, sales and CRM e-Learning products, and SkillSoft’s suite of business and professional e-Learning solutions, including management, leadership, communication, […]
Delivering Digitally: managing the transition to the knowledge media – review
Name: Delivering Digitally: managing the transition to the knowledge mediaAuthors: Alistair Inglis, Peter Ling and Vera JoostenPublisher: Kogan Page, London, 2002Price: £19.99ISBN: 0749434716Buy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.I missed the first edition of this book, sadly, but found this new edition to be absolutely essential reading for anyone with an interest in […]
Blended learning in the collaborative business – Training Solutions preview
Dave Simonds, director of Education at SAP UK, Ireland and South Africa and member of SAP’s Global Education Steering Committee will be speaking at Training Solutions. Here he talks to TrainingZONE about how blended learning and learning management can be extended out to customers, partners and suppliers in collaborative businesses, justifying the costs through extended […]
Can computers teach us people skills? – e-learning feature
This feature article was provided by Karina Ward, Marketing Communications Manager at NETg. Do you ever get the feeling that history books of the future will be a lot thicker than history books of the past? The pace of change – particularly technological development – has increased exponentially in the last century. We moved from […]
E-learning at the BBC – Training Solutions Feature
Gareth Jones, Head of New Media Innovation and Learning at the BBC, will be speaking at Training Solutions. We take a look at how the corporation have organised their learning management. The BBC have fifteen years of experience of developing interactive learning products: laser discs, CD-Roms, and then online modes in the last three years. […]
The web content style guide – review
Title: The Web Content Style GuideAuthors: Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton and Catherine O’DowdPublisher: Pearson Professional Education Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002Format: Paperback, 246 ppPrice: £18.00ISBN: 0273656058Buy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.The Web Content Style Guide aims to fulfil several functions for the writer or editor of online content, and it succeeds convincingly. […]
What are your experiences of e-learning? Let us know
The e-learning industry continues to invent and reinvent “innovative solutions”, though it’s clear that technology alone only goes so far. The really interesting perspectives on e-learning are those of corporate training managers who have tested out approaches, modified them, rejected some, and found out how to fit technologically-assisted training into their in-house programmes.We are interested […]
20 ways to do e-mentoring and e-coaching – feature
This feature was contributed by by Jo-Ann Driscoll and Amy Finn, Ph.D. of Centra Software, Inc. Okay – you have a live Web-based training delivery mechanism in house that you use for training within your organization. It works great – people don’t have to travel to get to your training; your trainers don’t have to […]
Blended learning in practice – Training Solutions preview
Ian MacDonald, Assistant Chief Constable, National Police Training, will be talking at the Training Solutions conference (19-20th June) on how the force’s Strategic Command Training programme found blended learning to be a very practical solution in a complex situation. In advance, he gave TraiingZONE some reasons. TrainingZONE How did you come to use blended learning?Ian […]
Calling all members with an interest in IT Training!
We’re planning some exciting new developments for TrainingZONE’s IT TrainingZONE and are looking for members to play a key role in making these a success. If you’re an IT trainer looking to network with others and share tips, experience and know-how, we’re planning a new area just for you. The IT Trainers Professional Interest Group […]
European e-learning group states its mission
The new European e-learning industry group has announced its aims, which are preproduced below. This piece was contributed by LINE Communications, which is among the fifteen companies involved in the group so far. Demonstrating commitment to learning in Europe and a commitment to public-private partnership, fifteen companies have come together to help Europe become the […]
3rd annual International e-Learning Festival
The 3rd annual International e-Learning Festival will be held from 8-10 July 2002 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. The festival, which is being produced by Advanstar Communications and The MASIE Center, will focus on the challenges of delivering e-learning across national, cultural, regional and political boundaries. The International e-learning Festival will offer a series […]
Instant Messenger Patch
A vulnerability was recently discovered in Microsoft’s MSN Chat, MSN Messenger and Microsoft Exchange Instant Messenger programs.Microsoft stated in a security bulletin, that the flaw found in Chat and Instant Messenger programs could allow a hacker to break into computers. A hacker can exploit a programming flaw known as an unchecked buffer enabling the hacker […]
Code Red Update
Nine months after the second version of Code Red emerged, it appears that the worm is still infecting systems worldwide and could easily have the destructive effect we witnessed last time. Dug Song, an ethical hacker for Arbor Networks expressed his concern with “the major potential for major distributed deniel-of-service [DdoS] attacks using Code Red […]
Cute.exe – Latest Trojan horse worm
Users are warned against the latest worm to hit computers. The worm can potentially take over a machine, delete or copy files and damage security programs.Look out for an email with the subject line: “Thoughts….”. The body of the message reads “I found this program, and, I don’t know why…but it reminded me of you. […]
EvaluationZone – FAQs
Your key questions answeredEvaluationZone had 17,500 hits in its first week after launching on 7th January 2002. That’s a lot of interest! Because of the level of interest and the number of enquiries we’ve received, we’ve prepared this page in response to member requests to help those wanting to find out more about the aims […]
EvaluationZone testimonials
Below are just some of the testimonials EvaluationZone host Paul Kearns has received from those who’ve taken part in his live workshop sessions. I have also meant to say thank you for the session last week. I feel you really did help with the clarification, not just for me but also the team. We had […]
ROI – or your money back!
You may have heard a great deal about it but do you know what ROI in training is? Have you been wondering how to produce an ROI calculation for a piece of training but just don’t know where to start? Well now is your chance to get a very quick answer to that question.Tell us […]
Learning to tutor online – feature
This feature was contributed by Julia Duggleby, Senior lecturer at the Sheffield College, with responsibility for online tutor training courses, including CIPD’s Certificate in Online Learning course, 2002 winner of the Learning Skills Development Agency’s Practitioner Award For Technology And Innovation In Education Quality In Staff Development For Information And Learning Technology. Before you read […]