Content about Educational software

February 20, 2012
Training Today: Products and Services (Jan/Feb 2012)

The latest products and services launching in the training industry.

>> Whiteboard Products launched a suite of its environmentally friendly products that will help improve the way businesses in the U.S. and Canada train, present, learn, teach, and brainstorm. The supercharged whiteboard on a roll sticks with static to any flat surface. Users simply unroll the whiteboard, tear off a sheet along the perforation (or roll it out to make a 65-foot-long whiteboard), and place it on the wall. Additional products now available include the Magic Blackboard for colored displays and a Clearboard that can be written on with dry erase markers.

February 17, 2012
New Article: What’s an LMS? Part 2

Lessons learned about Learning Management System implementation, software training, internal marketing, and user adoption from the Training & Organizational Development manager at Multi-Chem.

 

By Glenn Drysdale, Training & Organizational Development Manager, Multi-Chem

February 17, 2012
What’s an LMS? Part 2

Lessons learned about Learning Management System implementation, software training, internal marketing, and user adoption from the Training & Organizational Development manager at Multi-Chem.

By Glenn Drysdale, Training & Organizational Development Manager, Multi-Chem

Recently, I embarked upon an adventure: implementing the first Learning Management System (LMS) in our company. The first article (http://trainingmag.com/article/what%E2%80%99s-lms-part-1) looked at identifying needs, making the business case, choosing a vendor, and obtaining senior leadership buy-in. Here in Part 2, we look at implementation, software training, internal marketing, and user adoption.

February 10, 2012
What’s an LMS? Part 1

Recently, a Training & Organizational Development manager implemented the first Learning Management System (LMS) in his company, Multi-Chem. He says it has been a rewarding venture, providing functionality the company has needed for some time. The experience yielded many lessons that might be helpful for others. Here are some of the lessons he learned along the way.

By Glenn Drysdale, Training & Organizational Development Manager, Multi-Chem

Recently, I embarked upon an adventure: implementing the first Learning Management System (LMS) in our company. It has been a rewarding venture, providing functionality we have needed for some time. The experience yielded many lessons that might be helpful for others. Here are some of the lessons we learned along the way.

February 6, 2012
Digging Deeper: Learning Systems

 

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February 6, 2012
Your New Role: Learning Content Curator (Part 1)

Imagine a time when learners actively come to a learning community we have built and nurtured, and pull exactly the learning they need at the time and place they need it. Effective delivery of such curated learning content will require new tools, strategies, and technologies that force us to think outside of the boundaries of the e-learning course and the corporate LMS and go far beyond the link-sharing tools used on the Web.

By Chris Frederick Willis

January 3, 2012
The Integrated Learning Manifesto

The time has come for a new, integrated model for corporate learning. Technology should provide a platform for seamlessly delivering carefully selected, timely, role-appropriate learning opportunities at the right point in career development. Learner needs must drive the LMS, not the other way around.

By Chris Frederick Willis, CEO, Media 1

October 7, 2011
Training Today: Products and Services, Sept/Oct 2011

The latest products and services launching in the training industry.

  • Hughes Network Systems, LLC, unveiled expanded features—including live training management functionality such as such as class scheduling, user registration, class role printing, attendance, grade tracking, and a customized reporting dashboard—for its hosted learning portal. SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) conformance enables course designers to take full advantage of both off-the-shelf content and a variety of authoring tools.
October 4, 2011
Innovations and Best Practices in E-Learning

Online learning is constantly changing and improving. The best LMS platforms stay up to date with current technologies, make adding your e-learning courses easy, and, most importantly, give your users a reason to keep learning.

By Chad Hoke, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, BlueVolt

The first thing you want to ask yourself when considering, implementing, or switching to a new learning management system (LMS) is: Will it be easy to use?

Think about the majority of your LMS provider’s users. How tech-savvy are they? Don’t over-estimate your users’ tolerance for complexity. One of the most common complaints we get from companies is that their usage is far less than they expected.

September 14, 2011
Vi Changes Its Workforce Culture with Learning Management

Thanks to its creative use of learning management technology, Vi—the owner and operator of older adult living communities—has enjoyed dramatic results: Online course use has grown more than 1,000 percent, learning costs have fallen by 28 percent, and the company has enjoyed a 5.5 percent increase in customer satisfaction.

By Michael Boese, Sr. Vice President, Taleo Corp.

Thanks to its creative use of learning management technology, Vi—the owner and operator of older adult living communities—has enjoyed dramatic results: Online course use has grown more than 1,000 percent, learning costs have fallen by 28 percent, and the company has enjoyed a 5.5 percent increase in customer satisfaction.

July 25, 2011
Free LMS for the Small Business

Many companies, especially smaller ones such as search engine marketing firm OrangeSoda, often find that building a learning management system (LMS) is too expensive for their limited budgets. Find out how OrangeSoda developed several in-house LMSs for virtually nothing.

By Evan James Griffin, Manager, Training and Development, OrangeSoda Inc.

It’s hard to ignore the influence of technology in our lives. It has changed the way we shop, travel, and communicate, affecting literally everything we do. Its power also recently has changed the world of training, resulting in a booming $50 billion industry. This is no surprise to those who understand one of the greatest training challenges: scalability.

May 2, 2011
APC Institutes Corporate Global Health Check

To continue solidifying its efforts to become a centralized training organization, APC by Schneider Electric created a global corporate health check, which aims to provide its business with best practice metrics to measure activity and spend, as well as the business impact of training.

By Margery Weinstein

To continue solidifying its efforts to become a centralized training organization, APC by Schneider Electric created a global corporate health check, which aims to provide its business with best practice metrics to measure activity and spend, as well as the business impact of training.

October 1, 2010
LMS Lessons

Three 2010 Top Young Trainers 
share their experiences with 
implementing or re-engineering 
a learning management system—
from identifying the innovative 
functionality they needed to 
meeting the training 
challenges associated with 
the launch. Plus, the latest 
LMS bells and whistles.

By Lorri Freifeld

With technology changing 
every second of every day, it’s no surprise a learning management system (LMS) quickly can become outdated. But it’s no easy task to re-engineer a current LMS or find exactly the right new one to purchase. For some of the latest LMS 
innovations, see the sidebar below, and check out the lessons three 2010 Top Young Trainer winners who faced such challenges in the last two years learned about LMS functionality and training.

Vanguard’s Vision

October 1, 2010
Soapbox: CMS vs. LCMS

Content Management System or Learning Content Management System—
do you need both? The answer in most cases is “Yes.”

By Massood Zarrabian

Organizations often are confused as to why they need a learning content management system (LCMS) if they already have a content management system (CMS). The confusion usually starts with the similarity in their names and continues due to not understanding the roles of two such systems and the synergies that can arise from them working together.

October 1, 2010
Training Today: Tips to Outsource Training

With learning management 
systems (LMSs) offering more sophisticated functionality, will more companies look to outsource the operation of them? The answer might very well 
be “Yes,” according to NIIT Enterprise Learning Solutions President and business head Sapnesh Lalla. In a recent conference call, Lalla said the future of training outsourcing lies in learning technologies, learning content, and proprietary and off-the-shelf delivery.

With learning management 
systems (LMSs) offering more sophisticated functionality, will more companies look to outsource the operation of them? The answer might very well 
be “Yes,” according to NIIT Enterprise Learning Solutions President and business head Sapnesh Lalla. In a recent conference call, Lalla said the future of training outsourcing lies in learning technologies, learning content, and proprietary and off-the-shelf delivery.

He also offered tips for companies considering outsourcing training functions:

November 1, 2002
E-briefings fill a learning gap at KPMG

Although full-blown Web-based skills training has its place, many organizations feel the ability to rapidly build and deliver online content that raises employee awareness is an equally important strategic asset.

Although full-blown Web-based skills training has its place, many organizations feel the ability to rapidly build and deliver online content that raises employee awareness is an equally important strategic asset.