Simple web-based training for improving basic skills
Two sites to look out for providing simple training solutions on the web are highlighted here. Both sites are straightforward to use and have clear, easy- to-understand visuals and text. There’s a fun website aimed at improving basic skills at www.textrain.com.As its name suggests, the project was originally set up for the textile industry, but […]
NCR Choose NETg to provide e-Learning for Microsoft certification
NETg, a leading e-Learning company, today announced that it will work with NCR Dundee on a new project to take software developers, who design products and applications for ATMs, through Microsoft certification training. NETg and NCR have worked closely together on the project resulting in NCR Dundee also becoming an examination centre for Microsoft certification […]
Online Learning News – 11 July 2000 issue
A news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, July 11, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 16________________________________________________________Move ahead faster with e-learning. It’s how youbuild a smart force. http://www.smartforce.com.________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Drop authoring? ‘Good luck!’2. Collaboration quest3. Distance degrees4. Canadian online learning5. Cries for help: Does this register?6. Window shopping: Free IT training7. Pay no attention to […]
Free 3 Month Trials in Online IT Training
LearnFish, a new online IT learning provider, is being launched by Happy Computers at the IT Training Show. They are offering at least 10 free 3 month trials, each for up to 30 people.To qualify you must be TAP accredited and work for an organisation committed to TAP-style training. (TAP stands for Trainer Activity Profile […]
Survey on eLearning styles
Peter Honey requests:“Please join in our survey on eLearning styles. The delivery of learning by electronic means is enjoying explosive growth and, inevitably, some people take to it more enthusiastically than others. Might learning style preferences help to explain the different reactions? Might there even be as yet undiscovered eLearning styles?The survey is designed to […]
OnLine Learning News – 4 July 2000 issue
A news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, July 4, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 15________________________________________________________E-learning rocks! Burke, Gery, 230 breakouts, andLittle Richard! http://www.onlinelearning2000.com________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Authoring vs. programming2. Market fireworks? Stay cool3. Cries for help: Online office hours?4. Window shopping: Web-design how-to, online 360_____________AUTHORING OR PROGRAMMING? Which authoring program is best for creating onlinecourses?How […]
Army personnel to have online learning facilities
Ufi has announced that the Army is to be a Ufi hub, making on-line learning accessible to all its employees. Soldiers, their families, and civilians employed by the Army will be able to learn on-line from wherever they are posted, choosing from a wide range of courses which include ICT, Business Skills, and Literacy and […]
£9 million funding for Wide Learning
Investors led by J.P. Morgan Capital Corporation are investing £9 million sterling as second round funding into Wide Learning, a leading financial e-learning specialist. Wide Learning will use the funding to create more e-learning course and micro-learning content for use in the finance and business sectors and on a range of other customer-focused services. Wide […]
Online Learning News – 27 June 2000 issue
A news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, June 27, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 14________________________________________________________E-learning rocks! Burke, Gery, 230 breakouts, andLittle Richard! http://www.onlinelearning2000.com________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Me vs. you: More bad Web design2. Needle, channel, drum3. NOT the anti-U4. Breaking with the past?5. If we’ve been ignoring you …6. Cries for help: Learner control?7. Window […]
Evaluating e-learning: ten questions answered
The latest issue of What Works Online from ASTD, a USA-based association concerned with workplace learning, has an interesting article on evaluating e-learning. Given the potential costs involved in committing to e-learning, the articles’ authors note that there are few significant findings on return on investment for e-learning at present, although most studies show a […]
Complete online learning questionnaire and win a laptop!
Xebec McGraw-Hill and Training Magazine are currently conducting a survey into the implementation, use and impact on trainers of learning online, and are offering respondents the chance to win a multimedia laptop. The survey aims to find out who drives the implementation of online learning within organisations and the barriers they have to overcome. The […]
Online Learning News – 13 June 2000 issue
A news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 12________________________________________________________Move ahead faster with e-learning. It’s how youbuild a smart force. http://www.smartforce.com.________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Behind the curtain: Know those wizards2. Simulations? Get real3. UNext: The anti-U?4. Hit counters5. Authoring without plug-ins6. Cries for help: Food and humor?7. Window shopping: Linux […]
eLearning Exhibition – It wasn’t there!
Contributed by David West:Did you go to the eLearning Exhibition at the Business Design Centre in Islington? What did you think? You may have felt like quoting Shakespeare in Love, ‘It’s a mystery.’ The problem was that the product wasn’t there.Go to the Motor Show or the Boat Show, and you can see, touch and […]
News round-up from the e-learning exhibition
The e-learning exhibition at the Business Design Centre, London showcased many of the content and software providers currently in the market. Here’s a brief round-up of what’s new in the world of e-learning: ************The Open University are offering a online course in the world-wide web for those who are unfamiliar with computers and the internet […]
Report from the e-learning exhibition and conference, 7 June
TrainingZONE reports from day one of the e-learning exhibition and conference at the Business Design Centre, London.TrainingZONE attended the opening and keynote session, with presentations from Mark Lliff, MCS leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC) and Frank Nigriello group director of corporate affairs at the Unipart Group.PwC have had an involvement with electronic learning for 15 years, having created […]
Online Learning News – 6 June 2000 issue
A news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, June 6, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 11________________________________________________________How can eLearning keep your business competitive? LIVEWebcast with experts June 15. See http://www.docent.com________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Halving it all: Cut your LMS shopping time2. Don’t leave e-learning to tech-heads3. Danger! Online pitfalls!4. Plugging along5. Cries for help: Proof? Activex? Hit […]
Conference paper on ‘Impediments to adoption of web-based course delivery’
An Adobe PDF version of paper, “Impediments to Adoption of Web-Based Course Delivery,” by David Passmore, presented at the First Annual Irish Educational Technology Users’ Conference in Sligo, Ireland, on 19 May 2000 is available at:http://train.ed.psu.edu/documents/edtech/URL for conference web site:http://www.itsligo.ie/staff/bmulligan/web/EdTech2000.htm An Adobe PDF version of paper, “Impediments to Adoption of Web-Based Course Delivery,” by David […]
600 free online courses available from freeEdu.com
FreeEdu.com is an Internet-based learning company whose goal is to offer free online education to the general public. Through free access to hundreds of online courses — from kindergarten through postgraduate – FreeEdu.com will establish the ‘Net’s most extensive e-education environment. The current courses concentrate on technology and business skills that lead to professional certification […]
Survey into web-based training authoring tools
A TrainingZONE member writes:I wondered if you would interesting in helping us publicise an online questionnaire we are targetting at training managers interested in WBT.The address is http://www.pictus.com/questionnaire.html. It is part of our market-research effort to establish a case for commercialising a set of authoring tools for WBT we developed in academia.Everyone who submits will […]
Online Learning News – 23 May 2000 issue
FA news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, May 23, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 9________________________________________________________DigitalThink helps keep Adobe’s sales teamcurrent on product information, technologiesand soft skills. What can we help you learn?http://ads17.focalink.com/SmartBanner/page?21206.1________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Broadband wireless: In the wings2. Ooops! What we meant to say …3. Swing online? No and yes4. Blackboard, WebCT and […]
