The Burgeoning Metrics Market

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ASTD Staff

Blame it on the balanced scorecard. Though not the first to devise a business scorecard, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton set off a flurry of interest in people-related metrics with the publication of their 1996 book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into... More »

Mobile Learning: Anyplace, Anytime

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David Wentworth

According to new ASTD-i4cp research, 65 percent of employers are either using, considering, or currently developing learning for mobile devices. As a concept, mobile learning has been around for several years; some companies began delivering information in text format t... More »

Moving Into the Live Virtual Classroom

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Martyn Lewis

With increasing pressure on learning organizations to deliver greater results and with ever-decreasing resources and time, there is an understandable race away from the physical to the virtual classroom. The catch-22 is that virtual training is seen by many as a poor an... More »

Using Passion to Become a True Business Partner

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Deadra Welcome

Learning professionals often enter the field after working in a non-HR position first. Many actually lack proper education and training when they enter the field; therefore, informal learning on the job becomes the way that many of us learn our trade. Although learning ... More »