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    When an economic crisis hits eLearning, what do managers have to say about it?
    Friday, November 28, 2008
    PowerPoint presentation into a course for a thousand employees within two hours. The ROI outperfoms training in a ... ). There is an old economic tendency that in times of crisis the training department budgets get cut. For more then ... moment to rethink training and boost it. The same with R&D (research and development), because it is by rethinking you ... you overcome them. You need training to get people thinking out of the box (or broaden their box) and you need training ... innovative forms of education and training such as informal learning, e-learning and blended learning. Faced ...
    Web 2.0 Applications in Learning : eLearning Technology
    Wednesday, November 26, 2008
    Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... % Process Information / Training 22 54% Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / Support Information ... 10 24% Product Information / Training 9 22% Other 8 20 ... methods or comments written in: Communities of Practice For Professional Consulting or Training Areas CoP and Detective training, teaching students, share best practices and poll member, learn from each others membership interest ...
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    Friday, November 21, 2008
    Please add comments below to help me flesh out this list. TrDev - Large, Moderated - Training and Development Discussion ... , needs assessment, objectives, performance improvement, return on investment (ROI), strategic analysis, task analysis, tools for training and learning, train-the-trainer, training and development. (E-)learning network - Fairly active ... Training Professionals Group - a large LinkedIn group for training professionals, including project managers, ...
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  • Proving ROI in Training
    ... training. This would result in a large amount of money that I could point to as ROI and hopefully this would cause some ... The company I work for has a tight grip on the training budget this year and if I want to make eLearning a priority in future budgets I need to make the ROI on eLearning obvious. As you may have seen in the previous post, I am attempting to do this by replacing some content that is currently delivered through instructor led training. By doing that I ... knowledge because this is a current focus of the training dept. I am happy that he would like to use eLearning for ...
    Blender - Training Solutions - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - Comments
  • Assessing the ROI of training
    Assessing the ROI of training by Clive Shepherd If people ... (ROI) as a primary tool for forecasting and evaluating the benefits of training and explains the steps involved in conducting an ROI analysis. Contents Measuring the success of training Forecasting and ... period in return for a given investment in a training programme. Looking at it another way, ROI is the extent to which the benefits (outputs) of training exceed the costs (inputs). ROI can be used both to justify a planned investment ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • Hero Camp video
    Twenty of us have convened in Houston at Hero Camp to come up with ways to foster the development of everyday heroes. We don’t expect to produce legions of citizens who jump between the tracks to protect someone from an oncoming train. Rather, we hope to promote these attributes among adolescents: * bravery, risk-taking, faces down oppression * driven by justice and the greater good, self-sacrificing * extraordinary * saves life, saves the planet, saves the day, saves the bacon, acts significantly This is a lengthy video of Saturday ...
    Internet Time - Sunday, October 26, 2008 - Comments
  • Proving 900 Percent ROI
    Training ... ROI ... Training ... training that it hasnt seen in a long time, because for the first time, attending training is ... . Proving 900 Percent ROI ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • High time for ROI
    ... training and baseball. Baseball is easy to quantify but statistics don't tell the entire story The Chicago Cubs hold ... , training departments once took chances on things because they looked good. These days it's imperative that learning leaders ... ), and Patti Phillips (of The ROI Institute). Issue: Human Capital is the largest unmanaged cost in business ... the training intervention has been effective. That's it. You don't need to measure everything that moves ... business decisions are micro. ROI is the answer. You build up the numbers and that's your case. I think that if ...
    Internet Time - Saturday, September 27, 2008 - Comments
  • ROI for E-Learning
    Here are this year’s winners and citations in the area of learning technology.   Downloads: ROI Calculators Each month LC links to offerings from a new suite of tools. This month we take a look at free ROI ... Being Created for Certificate Programs Training Outsourcing on the Decline Reports CLO Magazine In ... Learning Circuits Blog   ROI od CEO as Blogger >> from the New Learning Playbook ... for Training & ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • ROI and Metrics in eLearning
    Use EVA instead. Support - ROI Calculator Training & Support Return on Investment Calculator Investing in ... in news and business discussions because, for every purch Build the Business Case for Training and Measuring ROI ... Training Return-on-Investment (ROI) - Strategies to Succeed in Training: School for Champions Measurement of training ROI starts with defining the reasons and goals for the training, determining how much the training costs, and verifying ... ROI of training If people really are your greatest asset, isn't it time to look at your training programmes ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • A Fresh Look at ROI
    Here are this year’s winners and citations in the area of learning technology.   Downloads: ROI Calculators Each month LC links to offerings from a new suite of tools. This month we take a look at free ROI ... Being Created for Certificate Programs Training Outsourcing on the Decline Reports CLO Magazine In ... Learning Circuits Blog   ROI od CEO as Blogger >> from the New Learning Playbook ... for Training & ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • Objection #13: How Do You Measure ROI?
    ... labeled, ‘How do you measure if it is being used and adopted.” This is what I had in mind knowing that ROI would ... learn. They are the ones in charge of their learning and teaching each other. Instead of being forced to go to training ... learning. Here are some more ideas to measure. The second is more of the traditional ROI. How do you know that it is producing bottom line results? So many people say, “You can’t measure this. There is no traditional ROI model ... results. And, honestly, the numbers are not always the best ROI. Because the ROI is then used to make decisions. The ...
    Engaged Learning - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - Comments
  • Measuring the ROI of E-Learning
    Training ... ROI ... Training ... training ... seen in a long time, because for the first time, attending training is ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • ROI from Workflow-Based E-Learning
    Here are this year’s winners and citations in the area of learning technology.   Downloads: ROI Calculators Each month LC links to offerings from a new suite of tools. This month we take a look at free ROI ... Being Created for Certificate Programs Training Outsourcing on the Decline Reports CLO Magazine In ... Learning Circuits Blog   ROI od CEO as Blogger >> from the New Learning Playbook ... for Training & ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • ROI of E-Learning: Closing In
    Here are this year’s winners and citations in the area of learning technology.   Downloads: ROI Calculators Each month LC links to offerings from a new suite of tools. This month we take a look at free ROI ... Being Created for Certificate Programs Training Outsourcing on the Decline Reports CLO Magazine In ... Learning Circuits Blog   ROI od CEO as Blogger >> from the New Learning Playbook ... for Training & ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • Internet Time Blog: ROI is toast. Use EVA instead.
    ROI Art Break TDF Finale New Community of Practice Forming Dropouts More TDF04 Training Directors ... Contact Us Archives | Home ROI is toast. Use EVA instead. Last year it became common knowledge among eLearning professionals that ROI (Return on Investment) is more than a ... the company’s resources. It makes you think like a business decision-maker. Too bad it’s obsolete. ROI ... ;Economic Value Added,” EVA for short, is a measure of ROI that takes the cost of funds into account. Unlike ROI ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • Blended learning supports Xerox rollout
    ... on international travel for training. I pity the poorer organisations. Assima Managing Director, Paul Stevens presented some strong arguments for effective IT training: ROI is directly related to the speed of adoption of new systems and processes and the proficiency of users (Prosci). Poorly trained users require six times more support than professionally trained users (Gartner). Professionally trained users make 50% fewer errors and spend more time on ... jointly by IT training specialists Assima and corporate giant Xerox. I wasn't too familiar with Assima, even ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, October 2, 2008 - Comments
  • ROI: Should You Host The LMS or Let the Vendor
    ... mission critical application was down, the company would loose $1 million dollars. As an individual in a training or ... training servers up and running? What level commitment will the IT department provide to you when course scores are not being ... training or compliance it is very difficult for you to now learn an entire new "language" of servers and ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, December 1, 2006 - Comments
  • Social network ROI? Oh heck, I don't know. What's the value of a relationship?
    ... for determining social network ROI and a Level 4 training evaluation. And, with it, my thought to explore this a little ... project. What's the hang up? ROI. "How can we be sure that we can recoup our investment?" "What's ... training . Those in the learning profession tend to speak of the fourth level as some elusive holy grail for training ... impact of an investment in training . It's challenging. For example, if you spend a lot of money training all your employees and then revenue subsequently spikes, can you really say it was due to the training? Or, would it be ...
    Business Casual - Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - Comments
  • Hot Topics in Training
    Last year, I did Hot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) Analysis where I analyzed the topics at Training 2005 and Training 2006 to determine what topics were emerging and fading. As a speaker and someone expected to ... topics in Training 2007 . One of the reasons I choose the Training conference is that it's not as leading edge as ... % lms 2 3 5 2 67% rapid 3 4 5 1 25% roi 9 4 5 ... % metrics 3 0 0 0 0% blog 0 0 0 0 0% training 43 50 ...
    eLearning Technology - Friday, May 4, 2007 - Comments
  • Training Method Trends : eLearning Technology
    Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... , 2008 Training Method Trends : eLearning Technology ... kind of training that requires significant upfront effort is going to come under increasing fire. Oh, here was my ... those trends at the beginning of the year. I would have been wrong. Corporate Training Methods But what about in corporate training? What are the trends for methods in corporate learning? How do they possibly differ from ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Monday, September 8, 2008 - Comments
  • Training is not important, learning is (and so on)...
    Training is not important, learning is. Learning is not important, doing the right thing is. Doing the right thing is not important, having measured results is. Having measured results is not important, having a positive ROI is. Having a positive ROI is not important, meeting the needs of the budget holder is. Meeting the needs of the budget holder is not important, increasing your next quarters' funding is. Increasing next quarters' funding is not important, having revenue ... are. Having the right experience are not important, having the right training is. Clark ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Friday, April 8, 2005 - Comments
  • eLearning Technology: Thinking Outside the Training Box
    Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Thinking Outside the Training Box : eLearning Technology ... something along the lines of - looking at Customer Service and IT Help Desk for inspiration in training. When you look at Daves list of things that these two organizations do, you begin to see solutions that dont look like training and instead look like help (with maybe a little training embedded when appropriate). This is the kind of solution weve ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - Comments
  • eLearning Technology: Training - Serve Them Coffee! Meetings - Don't?
    Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Training - Serve Them Coffee! Meetings - Dont? : eLearning Technology ... University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and her colleagues. Perfect for training situations! But ... people ...   0 comments links to Training - Serve Them Coffee! Meetings - Dont? Permalink: Training - Serve Them Coffee! Meetings - Dont? Bookmark this page ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - Comments
  • eLearning Technology: Pew Survey on Blogging - Training Professionals Far Behind
    Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Pew Survey on Blogging - Training Professionals Far Behind : eLearning Technology ... high because my experience at Training 2006 suggested that very few people in Corporate Training read blogs. Question asked of 200 Training Professionals - "Where do you learn about whatâ??s new in learning?" Publications, e.g., Training Magazine, CLO, etc. â?? 99% Blogs â?? 2.5% Granted that much of what is being blogged these days is by ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - Comments
  • eLearning Technology: Shift in Blended Learning - Example of Melding of Training and Support
    Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Shift in Blended Learning - Example of Melding of Training and Support : eLearning ... emphasis in information sources. As an example from the software training world, what we are seeing more an more is a melding of Training and Support materials. In other words, our blended learning model often used to look like ... materials such as help, cheat sheets and manuals are seamlessly integrated with training and used prior to actual ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - Comments
  • Metrics
    ... billion still yields a significant ROI. (Here are the details: New-hire training at Sun Microsystems ... . My research led to a on the ROI of training. I was floored, for it felt as if the authors had been peering ... at ROI . ?It?s been clear for a long time that training for measurable skills is different than ... . See Measuring Training ROI & Impact (1999). You can guess how I see this .   ... me the ROI , Inside Technology Training 11/99   Measuring ROI For The Top ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Comments
  • April 2008 Big Question
    The Learning Circuits Blog big question for April is "What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional?" The simple answer to this question is " push back more ." This can be applied on many levels, but I am primarily speaking of pushing more on ROI and evaluations . I learned very early on that Analysis and Evaluations are the first ... colleagues come to me with a problem worded as a solution (I need XYZ training), and given the lack of time (both at the ... get put together. I've posted before that I think the number one issue facing the field is the lack of ROI ...
  • What's the problem with Kirkpatrick?
    ... evaluation had proved valuable over more than thirty years in helping to measure instructor-led, content-based 'training ... practice for organisations to deliver good old-fashioned top-down training programmes. Surely what's needed is a combination ... is for education, but in a training context, where the goal is to change behaviour in order to improve performance, then ... that, they seem to be putting it to work and it seems to have made a positive impact. ROI was mentioned frequently in ... ROI - my understanding is that ROI was added much later as a fifth level in Jack Phillips' extended model. Not that ROI ...
    Clive on Learning - Monday, April 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Firing Students
    When should instructors fire students (ask students to no longer participate)? This is a more challenging issue in the corporate and government world, where training is more thought as a service, or a requirement, than the academic. This gets more interesting when simulations are introduced, and there is real work required from a student, not just showing up. Courses can also be several sessions, not just one. Some people view percentage who finish the course as a ... course, they go through the motions but don't push, then that messes up any ROI and evaluations. The passive ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Wednesday, May 3, 2006 - Comments
  • How effective is your learning evaluation?
    The evaluation of training is too important to be left to trainers. At the individual intervention level, at the strategic enterprise level, and at all points inbetween, the quality assurance processes applied to formal learning initiatives in most organizations are, in my experience, rudimentary at best. Training departments are usually stretched thin ... into its impact. I'd like to see more training departments creating evaluation units and staffing them with a trained expert or two who can help get past the simplistic "smile-sheet & ROI" approach and start building systems that put ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Thursday, August 11, 2005 - Comments
  • Knowledge and Learning In The News - 01/23/2007
    That Training Program ROI... - The Boggs e-Learning Chronicle Senior executives more often than not have overly high expectations of their training managers, constantly demanding they turn out empowered leaders and developing future leaders, however, these same leaders often set a bad example for other employees by refusing to attend the training, and show no interest in sharing responsibility for ensuring training is valued and recognized within their company. Is ... . Investing in Informal Learning - The Learning Circuits Blog Estimates of employer investments in workplace training ...
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - Comments
  • Learning from Fox News
    Quick question: If you had a training program that took participants 15 hours to do (let's say a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous), and half of the participants increased their productivity by, say 20%, in a way that endured over months and even years, but the other half hated the experience, and thought it was a waste of time, ...would you champion it? My sense is that even though the ROI of such a program would be through the roof, most training people are so uncomfortable with the negative press that they would not want it in their portfolio. Am I wrong? What are ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Thursday, November 16, 2006 - Comments