Pricing e-learning: expect to pay more for the human factor
The results of a survey canvassing opinions on expectations and perceptions of the price of e-learning finds that purchasers of online training expect the cost to increase significantly by adding in the human factor.Nearly 1200 learning and training professionals responded to questions regarding a proposed course posed by USA learning thinktank the Masie Center in […]
Online Learning News – 15 August issue
ONLINE LEARNING NEWSA news and idea service of Bill Communications Inc. Tuesday, August 15, 2000 Vol. 3, No. 21________________________________________________________Novell delivers two key pieces of Net Services:NDS eDirectory for Windows 2000, NDS eDirectoryfor Linux: http://www.novell.com.________________________________________________________THIS WEEK:1. Storytelling online2. What’s your learning style?3. E-course completion rates — meaningless?4. No-authoring sites5. Loops? Yes6. Cries for help: CBT or […]
Online workshop: Getting started as an online tutor
This is the transcript of the TrainingZONE online workshop held on 15 August 2000. The topic for the session was ‘Getting Started as an Online Tutor’. Workshops take place at least once a week and are free to participants. A complete schedule or workshops is available online.This workshop is one of a series aimed at […]
Liverpool University offers first online degree
Yesterday TrainingZONE reported that a lecturers union on the USA had voted to veto degrees offered entirely online. Undaunted by this, Europe’s first online IT degree has been launched by the University of Liverpool.A collaboration with Dutch education specialists K.I.T. eLearning, The Master of Science (MSc) in Information Technology (IT) which is accredited by the […]
Free seminars on best practice guidelines for implementing online learning
Case studies and practical guidelines for introducing and implementing online learning will be presented at free seminars in London, Bristol, Manchester and Edinburgh, hosted by Xebec McGraw-Hill, the interactive learning company.Aimed at HR practitioners, IT and Intranet managers, the seminars will explain the benefits of online learning as well as the practicalities of getting started; […]
USA lecturers union opposes online degrees
The American Federation of Teachers has passed a resolution that opposes undergraduate degrees that are earned entirely online.At their recent convention, the union, which represents more than one million teachers and tutors in higher education, called for control of Web-based courses to remain with teachers and tutors. A resolution passed unanimously by the union states […]
Low cost online courses launched by A1learn.com
A1 learn.com Limited (www.A1learn.com) has launched a range of training courses that are run over the Internet in real-time with interactivity and on-going assessment.“Web based training is set to take off now that unmetered web access has arrived and people realize they can learn from high quality training courses at low cost,” says Martin Creal, […]
Online Learning News – 8 August 2000 issue
THIS WEEK:1. The color of peace: Work it out with IT2. Are they squinting?3. Have PC, will conference4. Geeks rule!5. Cries for help: Trainer CBT?6. Window shopping: Are they mutants?_____________THE COLOR OF PEACE: WORK THINGS OUTIf your information-technology department insists onkeeping its own intranet interface for your e-learning— try to work things out.That’s your advice […]
US president needs examples of e-learning
USA-based The Masie Center is a research institute looking into the relationship between learning and technology, providing services to major corporations and technology providers throughout the world. In this week’s edition of TechLearn Trends, an e-mail newsletter produced by the centre, Elliott Masie, one of the Centre’s founders is looking for ‘Excellent Examples of e-Learning’ […]
Writing learning aims and objectives
We came across this simple little online course on the click2learn.com website recently and thought other TrainingZONE members might be interested. Just $16 gives you access to the course for a year.More than most professions, teaching requires keen organizational ability. In fact, teachers must know the general direction of a course before it starts, and […]
Interview of the month: Professor Steve Molyneux, the Learning Lab
Based at Wolverhampton University, The Learning Lab has been established as a European centre of excellence to develop and showcase applications of learning technologies within the education and training sector. Launched in November last year, the Learning Lab was formed as a collaboration between Professor Steve Molyneux of the University, Microsoft and ICL. It has […]
“Knowledge accidents” and learning management from Lotus
Lotus are one of the more recognised names in the IT market. Like many big companies providing IT solutions for business, they offer a range of software for learning online.Their learning management and delivery software Lotus LearningSpace is in use at Staffordshire University and Napier University in the UK – at Napier it’s been used […]
e-learningdirectory.com reviewed
This month’s edition of Training Journal is accompanied by a CDROM entitled e-learningdirectory.com. The site aims to offer a review of all online learning websites available: “Our aim is….to become the starting point for trainers and learners who want to access e-learning”. With this in mind, TrainingZONE set out to review the reviewing facility.Actually getting […]
Learning lab hopes to boil up recipe for improving CBT
An enthusiasic vote of support for technology-based training comes from a consortium of major companies and the University of Wolverhampton.Initially, the University, Microsoft and ICL came together to work towards creating a centre of excellence for CBT. The Learning Lab was launched as a result in November last year, and aims to become ‘a European […]
The Campaign for Learning seeks your views on e-learning
The Campaign for Learning is looking for respondents for its survey into what individual e-learners think of the learning they have done online, and what employers and learning providers are doing to prepare for the e-learning revolution. The survey, which is being run in partnership with accountancy firm KPMG and the University for Industry, is […]
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 […]