The New Year brings with it the promise of a new start, goals to achieve and things to learn. It makes it the ideal time to promote professional skills and learning development as employees will be re-energised to develop their (...)
Can you really measure training ROI? Concern about the effectiveness of training programmes is boosting demand for training evaluation. Satisfaction surveys, which are widely used to- day, are a vital part of instructional engineering and can prove invaluable if the (...)
Learning and Development Gamification: Can learning really be effortless? Smartphones and tablet devices have become ubiquitous. All sectors of the population are now familiar with gaming, whether casual or hardcore. From Angry Birds to Call of Duty, people are discovering a (...)
What are MOOCs? The acronym MOOC (for Massive Open Online Course) first appeared in 2008 in reference to a course called “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” run by George Siemens from the University of Athabasca and Stephen Downes from the National (...)
They say time flies when you’re having fun – but it has a tendency to fly even faster when you’re up against a deadline. Time management is one of the biggest challenges of the modern workplace – balancing the needs (...)
The passing of Harper Lee moved me to looking at some of the less frequently visited corners of my bookcase to hunt down my very old copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s time to read it again. But as (...)
Few can argue that line managers have a crucial role to play in people development, particularly at a time when training budgets continue to be stretched to their limits. But, despite the fact that line managers are the link between learning and development and organisational business strategy, all too often they are not engaged in the training process and don’t see staff development as a core part of their role.
A Desire to Learn is the Key to Training Success Have you ever hit what is known as the wall? The time when you are running a Marathon, for example, and you are just overwhelmed with exhaustion and loss of (...)
Ten tips for successful e-learning The UK is continuing to lead the way in e-learning alongside Spain and Italy. Well designed e-learning allows motivated employees to take greater control of their learning. No e-learning strategy should be set in stone, (...)
Cegos recognised as Content Development industry leader by TrainingIndustry.com’s 2011 list of Top 20 Content Development Companies Cegos has been recognised as an industry leader by TrainingIndustry.com’s 2011 list of Top 20 Content Development Companies. The list is designed to support companies in (...)
