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August 2010

Case Study: Taking Training to the EDGE
By Matt Gilley
In 2009, AlliedBarton partnered with Intellum to launch “the AlliedBarton EDGE,” an innovative online learning management system designed to provide every AlliedBarton employee with the tools necessary to educate, develop, grow, and engage (EDGE).

Feature: The IDMM Approach for Developing Online Courses
By Brad Loiselle and Scott Hunter
With the advancement of technology and the requirement to be online, the IDMM helps better define the process an instructional designer would follow when developing an online course. 

Feature: Social Media in Communities of Practice

By Scott Palmer

Social media tools can help create a more dynamic community of practice and provide an ongoing and searchable conversation to benefit others. To successfully introduce social media into a community of practice within an organization, there are several factors that need to be addressed and questions to be asked.

 

T+D Feature: Best Practices for Facilitating Simulations

By Chris Musselwhite, Sue Kennedy, and Nancy Probst
The interactivity of simulated learning environments calls for a new array of course facilitation skills.

Excerpt: The New Social Learning (Free Chapter)
By Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner
Social media enables learning to happen unrestricted by physical location and in extraordinarily creative ways. Bingham and Conner explain why social media is the ideal solution to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face today, such as a widely dispersed workforce and striking differences in learning styles, particularly across generations.

Downloads: Free Rapid Content Authoring Tools
Each month LC links to offerings from a new suite of solutions. This month we link to free rapid content authoring tools: WBT Xpress, CoursLab, and Xerte.

INDUSTRY HEADLINES

UK-Based Research Shows Learning Tech Industry Is Failing to Understand Client Organizations
In a survey commissioned by LINE Communications, leading provider of learning and communications solutions, respondents cited lack of understanding of their sector, brand, values, culture, process, and of project objectives as major bugbears.

Department of Labor Announces an On the Job Training Toolkit
Earlier this summer, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced an online toolkit to help local workforce boards and agencies implement the On the Job Training (OJT) programming through the Workforce Investment Act and National Emergency Grants (NEG).

OfficeTeam Survey: Employee Training Top Concern for HR Managers
It's back-to-school time, but teachers aren't the only ones with lesson plans on their minds this fall. Human resources (HR) departments also are focused on continuing education for workers, suggests a new Office Team survey.

Gaining Control of the Remote Workforce
Are employees today working virtually or virtually working? Mostly the former, though the lack of in-person interaction comes with its share of challenges.

Upside Learning Releases Paper On Mobile Learning
Upside Learning, a recognized leader in training outsourcing, LMS solutions, custom e-learning and mobile learning, has published a brand new paper, “Mobile Learning—Here and Now.”

Learning Tree International and Four Points Technology Partner
Learning Tree International, a leading global training provider, announced a partnership with Four Points Technology, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business provider of IT products and services to the federal government, which will enable the firms to work together in offering compelling off-the-shelf and custom training solutions to government customers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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