(From Business Wire) -- A new benchmark study from project management firm PM Solutions, on The State of Project Management Training, found that the average firm invests US $2,211 per year per employee for project management training. Multiplied across a department, div... More »

Learning & Development

Business Impact , Competencies , Curriculum Alignment , Delivering Training , Skills Gap , Training and Development - General

Industry News , Research

ASTDs Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) assesses the outlooks and expectations of learning executives for the next six months, on a 100-point scale, modeled after the CEO confidence indices reported by Chief Executive Magazine and The Conference Board. The... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives , Human Capital

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Economy , Managing the Learning Function , Trends

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We have now experienced ten years of e-learning and this is a good time to reflect on its impact. Slomans (2009) paper entitled Learning and technology what have we learnt? explores the progression of e-learning and its possible future directions. It extracts research c... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Engagement , Managing the Learning Function , Mobile Learning

Research

As the Obama administration shines a light on the training and skills workers will need for the jobs of tomorrow, a new report shows that U.S. employers continue to struggle with an ill-prepared workforce, finding new hires lack crucial basic and applied skills. For the... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development

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