Themen
No laughing matter
London (UK), November 2012 - (by Bob Little) Online learning materials developers may shy away from injecting humour into their programmes because one person's humour may be deeply offensive to others. What starts as an attempt at humour can breach the bounds of political correctness and, far from achieving its learning objective, produces unlooked for adverse consequences for both the programme's producer and its buyer. » MORE
Ventana Research Technology Innovation Awards
Bracknell (UK), November 2012 - Saba, a premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, has announced that its social enterprise platform, Saba People Cloud, has received the Business Collaboration Award as part of the first Technology Innovation Awards from Ventana Research. The awards recognize technology vendors that have introduced innovations in technology to advance business and information technology (IT). » MORE
Ten Questions about Mobile Learning
Saarbrücken (GER), November 2012 - Dr Volker Zimmermann is co-founder and board member at IMC AG. He is responsible for new business (research, innovations, and new business), HR, and the media-publishing company of IMC. He is persuaded that "… end users will increasingly move over to tablet PCs or at least to touchscreen PCs." With ten answers he explains his point of view on this development. » MORE
Redsource Set to Revolutionise Workforce Mobilisation
Leamington Spa (UK), November 2012 - At the World of Learning and Apps World conferences, Redware, a provider of learning and mobile solutions, launched its Redsource mobile application management platform. Its mission is to help organisations take workforce mobilisation to the next level. » MORE
Bridging the Gaps between HR Goals and Results
Unterföhring (GER), November 2012 - Growth and development are natural processes. However, several conditions must be met for these processes to happen at an optimal pace and time. A seed needs water, food, and light to grow into a tree. Which factors influence a person's development into a valued professional and how can this growth be enabled best? » MORE
SaaS Platform with European Data Centre
London (UK), November 2012 - Questionmark OnDemand is tailored to meet European security directives. The OnDemand assessment-management platform is expanding its reach with the opening of a European data centre to serve a growing number of customers around the globe. » MORE
Results: Stories of Learning Using Technology
London (UK), November 2012 - ELIG, the European Learning Industry Group, has initiated a project to enable the workplace-learning industry to share its success stories of learning using technology. The aim of the project is to help change the way Europe learns by highlighting the powerful evidence hidden within individual stories and bringing them together as a collection of micro-stories to be shared to inspire others. Stories are from organisations that have measured the impact of their blended learning projects. » MORE
As Close to the Realities of the Job Role as Possible
Dundee (UK), November 2012 - Keith Quinn has worked in learning and development for over twenty years. Currently, he is working as a Development Manager for the Scottish Social Services Council. The title of his presentation at ONLINE EDUCA is "Going Mobile: Comparing Outcomes of Technology-Enhanced Situated Learning with Classroom Approaches to Workforce Development". In his research, he has come up with a lot of interesting answers to what appear to be quite basic questions. » MORE
Xyleme Brings Analytics into Bravais
Boulder, CO (US), November 2012 - Xyleme's update to Bravais 1.2 provides the ability to track and report on all the content published to and from the BravaisTM cloud platform and across all devices from which this content is accessed. For training organizations, this powerful new capability means that executives will be able to measure effectiveness per individual piece of content, such as specific topics, lessons, video clips, and interactions. Long gone are the days where you can only track if the entire course was downloaded and completed. » MORE
eXact learning LCMS Enables Personalization Ecosystem
Sestri Levante (I), November 2012 - Unveiled at the end of October, the latest major release, version 10, of the eXact learning LCMS and of its client desktop application eXact learning Packager 5.0, aims to add unique dynamic learning content publishing and personalization features to the enterprise-learning ecosystem. » MORE
2024 neigt sich dem Ende zu und damit starten die Vorbereitungen für das nächste Jahr. Welche Trends werden in 2025 die L&D Branche prägen? Was sind die größten Herausforderungen für Personalentwickler:innen und wie können sie ihnen begegnen? Nehmen Sie sich fünf Minuten Zeit!