... manager we require that the employee is certified through the Management Training Program which is currently a 5 day, 100 ... the classroom to bring it all together. We require that managers get re certified in the course every 2 years and up until now we put them back through the same 5 day course that new managers go through. This is a hassle for experienced managers because it's old hat and they want to learn something new as well as brush up on some of the important aspects of the course. The veteran managers will love this and it will be a big money saver because we will drastically reduce ...

Over the past month I've managed to collect an interesting range of research snippets relating to memory and cognition. There's definitely a sense of acceleration of activity in this area, which unfortunately also brings with it its own hype and hysterical headlines. Over the next few posts I'll summarise the ones that most caught my eye: Cholesterol and Memory People with high levels ...

... members who have the role of l&d manager and received 729 responses. Of these, half were private sector and half ... their organisations, e.g. management, induction and compliance. Few will be responsible for technical training in ... significant that l&d managers don't rate the efficacy of e-learning as highly as other more traditional approaches ... 'preferences') or feedback from customers, i.e, managers and learners themselves? Effectiveness is also situational. The ...

... significant spend on e-learning to their senior management, or (3) those who haven't been around long enough to ...

... professionals themselves and not their customers, i.e. managers in their organisations or learners themselves. That said, the data ... and in a more modern way. And I suppose that's not so bad; after all, senior managers may not really want to ...

... benchmark others and wait to see how these technologies would evolve." So, managers seem to find the ...

... became a group happening and was a real exchange of ideas and pointers on how to manage the growing digital knowledge ... getting in touch with new knowledge. Management should be made aware of the surplus they get from employees that can focus some part of their business hours on retrieving and trying out new ideas/content (cfr the google managers model of the early years or the Semco management system (books on this topic Ricardo Semler). One thing is for sure: the more you can ... a researcher or as a company employee who has important information, it is difficult to keep a good balance ...

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for satisfaction - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - ...

I'm currently sitting with my computer working (again) on a weekend. Training documents requiring rewrites surround me. Laptop in lap. 5 firefox tabs and 4 programs open. The boyfriend was flipping through channels and caught Good to Great on WETA HD . Channel surfing stopped. The documentary is based on Jim Collins' research regarding what made the difference between good companies and great companies. Admittedly - the series is a long advertisement for his book ... about management: - The importance of the right people in the right places - The need to confront brutal facts - ...

We really do live in exciting times. What with global geopolitical and economic power shifts and increasingly evident environmental concerns it's easy to feel uneasy. Yet there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic about our ability to learn new ways to manage and cope through what will inevitably be a long rollercoaster ride over the next few decades. The pace of innovation in many ...

It was exciting to see Guild research as part of an article in Business Week . From the Story "...fledgling corporate games and virtual worlds are not nearly as sophisticated or visually stunning as some of the most popular consumer games involving millions of players, such as World of Warcraft, but they are precursors of what's in the pipeline. In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 people in large and small companies, the eLearning Guildâ€"a group investigating the design and management of e-learning tools for business, government, and educationâ€"found that the number of people ...

At a panel at DevLearn. We have: Will Thalheimer, Work Learning Research Kevin Oakes, I4CP Claire Schooley ... . Find it. Use it. And it sits there. Younger generation used to finding things on their own. Talent management being discussed in the board room. Performance management. Learning and performance management converging finally. Linking ... , called him on this. Learning 2.0 is so different. 2.0 is chaotic. Talent management is structured. Statistics from ASTD research - 86% - web 2.0 technologies likely to use more in learning function than they do today 41% - ...

... before this can be made a reality. The report quotes one l&d professional: "Managers and delegates ...

... nbsp;Sign up for "Brandon Hall News" and get free research downloads ... Research via RSS . Brandon Hall Research ... , a daily summary of news, events, commentary, and research on all aspects of workplace learning. Research Analysts Blogs ... technology and talent management.

In my last post on Flash Quiz Tools , I mentioned how I had used the eLearning Guild Research to streamline my effort of find the right tools. This post is probably long overdue, but the use of the data from the guild has been a really great resource and has lead to posts such as: Flash Quiz Tools LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Course ... worth the price, i.e., the time it takes to fill in the profile. The PDF research reports include the following, but I ... Simulations Learning Management Systems Synchronous Learning Systems Mobile Learning ...

... here is some research to back up my late night musings and anecdotal evidence. A study by the National Academy of ... at birth. First the researchers trained subjects in a complicated memory task, an elaborate variation on Concentration ... , managing two tasks simultaneously and connecting related items to one another in space and time. Sounds like a ...

These are my liveblogged notes from the eLearning Guild’s webinar on their e-Learning 2.0 research report ... this? Upper Management endorsement Good content Pilot groups Change management All of the above are 45% or more More change management here than other places–good content is always given as a reason, but this report said more about change management Good question from Elizabeth Barnwell in the chat: “who implements change management in a school?” Generally, no one–that’s part of the problem. Image: ‘ 2 ...

... improvement, and knowledge management. Much like the field of simulation and gaming, I suspect that there will be ...

... do it on the sly. The manager will tell you what is SUPPOSED to be happening. The staff will tell you what ...

Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload ... Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective My basic strategy is: Quarantine Folders I create a "Trying Out" folder for each three month span. Right now I have "Trying ...

There were some interesting stats in the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's People Management magazine last week, in an article entitled Face to face with social networking. Apparently, in the UK: 20% of firms use social networking sites to research applications. 68% use search engines to check candidates. 70% of London firms block the use of Facebook at work. 51% of recruiters think social networking poses a challenge to traditional recruitment. 60% of firms would check a candidate's blog. 65% of university students are Facebook users. Facebook's ...

I tend to rant a bit about content like scholarly articles being locked behind walled gardens but I must admit that the Harvard Business Review is impressing me. Maybe it's because that while academic, I don't view the HBR as a scholarly journal but more in the "magazine" category. I know that a large part of it is that while much of their content is "premium" - they also manage to generate and give away alot of other content. Some of my recent finds include: An interactive tool and video to accompany the March 2008 article, " Is Yours a Learning ...

... taking. Although we'd like to think that parallels business, I don't think it does at normal management levels." And to ... managers lead virtual teams successfully. These tools will be familiar to us all: instant messaging, VOIP, blogs, ...

... management systems." Educause Center for Applied Research, 2003. Retrieved 1 May 2007 from http ... Course Management Systems and Pedagogy © Lisa M. Lane 2007 Course Management ... , or how teaching is impacted by the systems. With the emergence of new CMSs (also called Learning Management ... . Course management systems, by virtue of their intent and design, create limitations on faculty independence ... move toward standardization as a way to ease management issues (Danaher et al 2004, Katz ...

Research Report on Learning Management Systems . I'm not sure I can publish the details of my section in my blog, but ...

Yesterday the Science without Borders WebPortal was launched! Science without Borders (SWB) initiates, facilitates and supports cooperation between higher education teachers and students, scientists, researchers and other ... framework initiatives, the locally working researchers, scientists, teachers and students in universities, academies and ... fields of watershed management and agricultural development to provide feedback on abstracts and papers submitted by ... them to present their research at the Forum, and to participate in a training workshop on scientifi writing, to be ...

Management) Gary Woodill forwarded a link to a .pdf download of a new book “ Plan to Learn: Case Studies of Elearning Project Management . It’s a useful exploration (Canadian-centric) of case studies in elearning projects ... Connectivism Content Content Management Copyright/IP/DRM Design Elearning Evaluation/Assessment/ROI Games/Simulations Information Architecture Innovation Instructional Design Knowledge Management Learning Learning Objects Legal LMS Media Networks Open Source Podcasting Random Thoughts Research Resources ROI ...

Educause Preview: Ingeniux Web Content Management --> Login | Register ... Management ... Content Management Focus Academic Computing: The Object of Content Management 6/24/2005 By William H ... Two Designs Pty Ltd. 2004; www.steptwo.com ), knowledge management consultant James Robertson notes that ...

Jones manages her own schedule and as many students as she can handle for let's say $100/month per kid, and she's ...

... organization.  The company he was working with changed leadership and decided not to participate in the research.  In ... podcasts, I can easily modify my research to focus on one or both of these tools.  The key is, I need to find an organization that is using these tools in a collaborative nature, and not just as a content management system. As I said, this is case study research.  The results of my research will be published.  But I am wiling to work with the company that ... . Wouldn’t it be cool if, through Web 2.0 methods, we could help Jim find a partner for his Web 2.0 research ...