Communities and e-learning – interview feature
Dr Gilly Salmon, leading author and expert on e-learning, talks to TrainingZONE about learning communities in computer-based training. TrainingZONE What are the main principles that contribute to a successful e-learning programme?Dr Gilly Salmon The key principles are that groups of online participants wish to work together and that they need the support of a teacher, […]
Special Exclusive offer to TrainingZONE users
TrainingZONE author Bryan Edwards has put together a fully designed one day course for a trainer or line manager to pick up and deliver to develop team working skills. The Team Leadership Skills course contains tutor course notes, full colour overheads / Powerpoint slides, a delegate manual, exercises and role plays – everything you need, […]
Designing computer-based learning materials – review
Title: Designing Computer-Based Learning MaterialsAuthor: Alan ClarkePublisher: Gower, AldershotFormat: Hardback, 196 pagesISBN: 0566083205Price: £45Buy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.For a long time, there has been a need for accessible books in real English (rather than the American variety) about the design of learning materials and experiences (or instructional design, the rather stern […]
The secrets of successful online training – review
Title: The Secrets of Successful Online LearningAuthor: Laurel AlexanderPublishers: Management BooksPrice £12.99ISBN 1-85252-376-XBuy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.This 230-page book sets out to offer realistic and practical advice about online training. It is aimed at HR personnel and learning professionals who are looking for information to help them integrate eLearning into their […]
E-learning London – exhibition review
E-learning London proved to be a busy event, justifying the move to a bigger venue this year. In spite of market uncertainties and the focussed nature of the show’s subject, it kept buzzing for both days. E-learning providers can take comfort from this: although spending is currently restricted in many areas by the downturn, the […]
Content critical – review
Title: Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through High-Quality Web ContentAuthors: Gerry McGovern and Rob NortonPublisher: Pearson Professional Education Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002Format: Paperback, 224 ppPrice: £219918.00ISBN: 027365604XBuy this book from the TrainingZONE – Blackwells bookshop.The greatest ideas are the most obvious. Gerry McGovern and Rob Norton have produced a book crammed full of obvious […]
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 […]