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January 2010

Blog Watch

Predictions and Plans for 2010?
>> from the Learning Circuits Blog

The Metaverse Journal's 2010 Virtual World Predictions
>> from the Kapp Notes Blog

Five Words To Describe Corporate Learning in 2010
>> from the New Learning Playbook Blog

Global Learning Summit

Survey: 2010 Annual E-Learning Trends
Each year, Learning Circuits surveys readers to gauge the impact that technology developments have had on e-learning efforts. In addition, we ask questions to get a clearer picture of how e-learning is evolving. Here are the results.

 

Case Study: Massachusetts State Referee Committee Kicks Off Big Savings
By Irwin Hipsman
The Massachusetts State Referee Committee opts for online referee training to reduce costs and increase knowledge retention—saving 20 percent of its annual operating budget and slashing previous training costs by 50 percent in the process.

Feature: Fostering Online Learning—Beyond the LMS
By Mary Arnold
The flexibility of Web 2.0 tools provides many opportunities to invent new instructional strategies and to observe the informal learning we always knew was happening but didn’t know how to track.

Feature: Keeping Up with IT Training
By Marianne Cherney
Companies will need to continue to adapt their training programs at a much more rapid pace than ever before if they want their IT departments to continue to stay ahead of the game.

T+D Feature: Because You Can’t Learn to Ride a Bicycle from a Book
By Clark Aldrich
Thinking about the design elements of serious games and simulations is not as complex as you might believe.

Tech Tool:  Sending Out and SOS on OSS
By Ryann Ellis 
Current economic constraints demand that organizations find alternative resources for developing and delivering their learning assets. One option some learning executives are exploring is open source software.

Downloads: Open Source Project Management Tools
here are some free open source project management tools to help get your new year—and new projects—started on track.

Industry Headlines

 

New Study Shows Training Evaluation Efforts Need Help
When it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of training, most organizations admit they could do a better job, according to a study recently released by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). The study, Value of Evaluation: Making Training Evaluations More Effective, found that only about one-quarter of respondents agree their organizations get a “solid bang for the buck” from their training evaluation efforts.

Training Executives Optimistic about Training in 2010, Reports CLO
Every other month, IDC surveys Chief Learning Officer magazine’s Business Intelligence Board (BIB) on a variety of topics to gauge the issues, opportunities and attitudes that are important to senior training executives. This month the magazine looked at the CLO outlook toward the coming year.

New Standard Supports Web 2.0 Information Sharing and Strategic Planning in the Public Sector
Enterprise content management  solutions company AIIM announces the release of AIIM 21:2009, Standard Recommended Practice—Strategy Markup Language—Part 1: StratML Core. "Consistent with President Obama's directives on openness, transparency, collaboration, and participation, the StratML standard will enable agencies to use Web 2.0 social networking technologies in support of their missions to engage citizens more efficiently and effectively in pursuit of strategic goals and objectives," said Owen Ambur, AIIM StratML committee chair.

CompTIA Boosts High-Tech Employment with Training Opportunities
CompTIA, the leading trade association for the information technology (IT) industry, recently launched a new initiative aimed at boosting high-tech employment opportunities—Getting America Back to Work. This initiative will assist local Workforce Investment Boards across the country and their “One-Stop Centers” to help individuals with adequate technical aptitude gain the training and certifications needed to secure IT jobs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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