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TrainingZONE LearningWIRE - Issue 131
11 December 2000
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
Yell Awards 2000 Commendation - Best e-Commerce Site (B2B)
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LATEST HEADLINES ***** LATEST HEADLINES ***** LATEST HEADLINES
1. Interview of the month: British Association for Open Learning
2. The TrainingZONE Christmas quiz
3. Poll results: in-house or external trainers - who's best?
4. TrainingZONE workshop area for hire
5. E-learning content to hook up around the world
***** LATEST HEADLINES ***** LATEST HEADLINES ***** LATEST
A TrainingZONE eye view
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With all the hype surrounding e-learning these days, a passing
alien would be forgiven for thinking that distance learning is a
recent phenomenon, but they'd be wrong. The Open University is
just one of many providers which have been successfully helping
learners to develop knowledge and skills flexibly at their own
pace through the TV or through the post for many years. The
British Association of Open Learning has been representing
distance learning training providers since 1990. In an
interview with TrainingZONE this week, BAOL tells us about the
work they've been doing in partnership with the DfEE, and
explains how the challenges of e-learning are affecting those
who work with more traditional methods of delivery.
Stephanie Phillips
Editor
mailto:sphillips@trainingzone.co.uk
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk
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The TrainingZONE Christmas quiz
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Fancy a 12 bottle case of champagne, a Christmas case of wine or
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Course directory explodes!
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With courses to book, that is. TrainingZONE's events directory
now has 904 different courses on 3112 different dates. It's easy
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TrainingZONE workshop area for hire
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Looking for a location for a training event, but struggling to
get everyone together in one place at the same time? How about
meeting 'virtually' instead? TrainingZONE's workshop area is now
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Latest News
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A selection of this week's news stories, updated daily at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/news
Interview of the month: British Association for Open Learning
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TrainingZONE talks with the British Association of Open Learning
about their aims and current issues affecting members today.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/33178
Government must promote the use of vocational qualifications
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"There is an urgent need to take this action and increase the
proportion of vocationally trained people in the UK." These are
the conclusions of a survey carried out by the Institute of
Directors, in a report entitled 'Vocational Training and
Qualifications'.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/33086
Poll results: in-house or external trainers - who's best?
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In the last TrainingZONE survey, we asked whether you thought in-
house trainers were more effective in supporting learners in the
workplace than external trainers brought in for a specific
tutoring task. We analyse the results here.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/33420
Wildcat scheme a hit in the US, but what about the UK?
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The Guardian reports on a scheme brought over from the US which
takes a group of unemployed people and provides them with
training to prepare them for specific jobs, but there are some
doubts as to how well it will travel...
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/33132
Key Skills in Modern Apprenticeships
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An update on the changes proposed for the role of key skills in
Modern Apprenticeship programmes.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/33053
E-learning content to hook up around the world
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New progress is being made in developing a common way of
identifying content for e-learning, reports the US-based
technology and learning organisation Masie Center.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/33609
*** WEEKLY COMMUNITY UPDATE *** WEEKLY COMMUNITY UPDATE ***
The low-down on TrainingZONE's hot features for HRDers this week:
--------------Any Answers? Question of the Week-----------------
Mari Jackson is looking for examples of Training Needs Analysis
questionnaires which are a little more inspiring than the usual
'tick box' variety she normally comes across.
Can you help? To respond to Mari and other TrainingZONE
questioners, visit
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/anyanswers
-----------TrainingZONE CareerZone: Job of the Week-------------
Handling the media trainer, Bristol, 28-31k
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There are 97 other quality positions in the CareerZone now!
See them all at
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--------------Online workshop this week--------------------------
Find out the facts behind the government's LearnDirect project by
logging in to our exclusive interview with Helen Milner, the
University for Industry's Director of Learning.
Interested? Log in on Tuesday 12 December at 13:00 GMT at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/workshop
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