Ambient Insight analysts track eight types of learning products, one of which is mobile learning. Ambient Insight restricts the definition of mobile learning to events, content, and applications accessed on handheld devices. Mobile learning is starting to gain traction ... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Career Development , Credentialing , Delivering Training , E-Learning , Mobile Learning , Training and Development - General

Keeping a results-based evaluation and ROI process on track is one of biggest implementation challenges for evaluation professionals. In many ways, it's equivalent to training for a marathon. You start small with manageable goals, stretch your muscles, change your habit... More »

Learning & Development

Advanced Level Content , Business Impact , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

ASTD has joined with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to form a U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US/TAG) to coordinate U.S. input to a newly formed International Organization for Standardization (ISO) technical committee (ISO/TC 232) on Educational Service... More »

Learning & Development

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Global Workforce Development , Human Performance Improvement , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General , Training for Multiple Cultures

Why do we conduct an evaluation of a learning experience? Many times, we do not use the information or only give it a cursory review. Are there real benefits to conducting training evaluations? Some of the purposes for conducting evaluation include: To build relationshi... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Curriculum Alignment , Intermediate-level Content , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

There are seven golden rules that hold the key to constructing workable and accurate ROI calculations. They are: Everyone starts from a different place. Benefits need to be calculated in financial terms. It is your business case. Estimate conservatively. Everything has ... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Intermediate-level Content , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General