Content about Educational technology

December 20, 2012
Building a Global Training Program: Content and Instructional Design

Building a global training program that starts with a communication module; sets learning objectives for communicating across cultures, with different functions, and in virtual teams; and offers instruction that is both interactive and flexible will enhance employees’ abilities to contribute effectively in locations near and far from headquarters.

By Jennifer Lawrence, Founder, Cambridge Corporate Training

Once a company decides to pursue a global training program and reaches shared agreement on how to define and develop the initiative, the instructional design team can take the next step: deciding what content to offer and how to design instruction to deliver it. Perhaps the most important topic for a global training program—and thus, an excellent place to begin—is communication. This article explains:

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 13, 2012
Content Curation Strategies for Corporate Learning (Part 2)

With content curation, the running theme is to enlist yourself and other knowledgeable and passionate subject matter experts to filter and provide context to the resource materials that they value the most—trusting that your knowledge also will provide value to others interested in the same subject. Then the communities and portals we develop and support will become sought out as trusted sources of sustainable learning and performance in their own right.

By Chris Frederick Willis, CEO, Media 1

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 9, 2012
Conference Highlight: Answer-Judging: Where eLearning Platforms Fall Short

Real training requires more than binary feedback. But how can such complication be reproduced in elearning?

 

Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Ethan Edwards points out a tragic schism between in-person training and elearning, and offers a tool to bridge the gap.

As instructors, we all know that the best learning occurs when learners are challenged, make mistakes, get specific individualized instructional feedback, and then get the opportunity to practice.

February 6, 2012
Digging Deeper: Learning Systems

 

To see more discussions and connect with the Training community, click here to join the Training LinkedIn Group. Thanks to all who contributed to this discussion!

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

February 3, 2012
Conference Highlight: The Reframing Meeting

Help your company or clients understand that you have more to offer than simply executing their orders. Here are resources to help you prepare for a make-or-break reframing meeting.

 

In the third of three posts, Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Dick Handshaw talks about establishing your position as a strategic partner.

February 1, 2012
Conference Highlight: Proactive Performance Consulting

To transition from an “order taker” to a strategic partner, start acting the part today.

 

In the second of three posts, Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Dick Handshaw talks about establishing your position as a strategic partner.

January 30, 2012
Conference Highlight: Tired of Taking Orders? Part I

Your function is to train, but in the minds of your co-workers and employers, you may be anything from an order taker to a strategic partner. In the end, that perception determines how effectively you can do your job.

 

In the first of three posts, Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Dick Handshaw talks about the transition from “order taker” to “strategic partner.” Check back for posts two and three February 1st and 3rd. 

January 27, 2012
Digging Deeper: Measuring the Success of Your eLearning Program

One noteworthy conversation from a week of discussion on Training’s LinkedIn Group.

 

Thanks to Brenda Quinney (Sales Training Manager at RSA) for this thought-provoking question, and to our LinkedIn Group members for their insightful answers.

Q: How do you measure the success of your elearning program? Do you survey your learners? What questions do you ask?

 

January 17, 2012
Conference Highlight: Thinking about Mobile Learning?

Mobile learning can bring valuable content to learners when, where and how they need it. But if you are considering your own mobile program, there is something you should know first.

 

Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Scott McCormick explains the first thing you need to know about building your own mobile learning campaign:

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

November 23, 2011
Soapbox: The Case for Performance Support

A common misunderstanding of “informal learning” is that it can’t be intentionally designed, implemented, and measured. This assumption is wrong. Informal learning is actually a defendable discipline better known as Performance Support. Performance Support (PS) is providing intuitive, tailored aid to a person at his or her moment of need to ensure the most effective performance.

By Bob Mosher, is Global Chief of Learning Strategy and Evangelism, LearningGuide Solutionsand Jeremy Smith, Leader of Learning Solutions, Herman Miller

October 7, 2011
Dawn of the Social Cyborg

Think of the Social Cyborg as a human-computer hybrid that belongs to a socially networked hive. Then think about the implications for talent development of this new species in the workforce.

By Joe Campbell, Director of Global Talent Development, Nike Retail, and William Finegan, VP, Knowledge Management Solutions, General Physics Corporation, written exclusively for Trainingmagazine

October 7, 2011
Is Technology Fulfilling Its Promise?

How has access to training technology affected your ability to hold onto workers? Is it enabling them to do their jobs better? Several trainers consider whether their investment in training technology has been worth it.

By Margery Weinstein

October 7, 2011
Soapbox: iPad Takes on Sales Mission

Cognizant created a learning application—the iPad Sales GYM application—based on the principles of collaborative learning with a focus on performance enhancement.

By Sairaj Vaithilingam, Director, Content and Design Services, and Ramanathan Srinivasan, Senior Consultant, Learning Solutions Group, Cognizant Learning Solutions Group

Why can’t I learn what I want, when I want? This is a common question posed by the sales personnel at Cognizant.

With the company growing at an industry-leading clip and expanding its workforce,

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 7, 2011
Training Today: Tech Talk, Sept/Oct 2011

Find out about the latest advances in training technology.

  • Panopto Inc.launched Panopto Focus 4.0 and Panopto Unison, the next generation of end-to-end video and multimedia capture and management Web service solutions. Both solutions provide a video and multimedia search, editing, and viewing experience from any desktop or mobile device. Panopto Focus 4.0 brings lecture capture, while Panopto Unison improves asset management by enabling users to upload existing recordings to their Panopto libraries.
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 27, 2011
Transform Corporate Training into Strategic Engagements

To keep employees operating at peak performance levels, corporations must recognize the benefits of on-the-job instruction that occurs before, during, and after the learning event. To deliver training with a real impact on the company’s bottom line, knowledge of strategy and tactics is no longer enough—continuous learning is essential.

By Tim Hill, President, Professional Education (ProEd), Blackboard

Corporations constantly struggle with engaging learners, achieving business metrics, keeping content up to date, and efficiently sharing information. To keep employees operating at peak performance levels, corporations must recognize the benefits of on-the-job instruction that occurs before, during, and after the learning event. To deliver training with a real impact on the company’s bottom line, knowledge of strategy and tactics is no longer enough—continuous learning is essential.

September 19, 2011
Focus on Observed Errors to Make Training Efficient

Traditional instructional design tends to focus on the creation of systematic and comprehensive courses based around the knowledge subject matter experts want to convey to learners. Courses that are constructed, instead, by identifying the errors learners are making in practice, and addressing these errors with efficient, targeted training scenarios may be a more efficient approach to many training needs.

By Gregg Collins, Ph.D., Head of Instructional Design, NIIT worldwide

You can see a lot just by looking. —Yogi Berra

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. —James Joyce

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.