These describe the continuing challenge that good measurement continues to pose for most organizations, the fact that the tools available continue to change (forcing organizations to adopt a variety in an attempt to obtain a complete picture), and lastly, the need to expand measurement initiatives to include informal learning. The authors detail several key principles, including why: The end is the beginning. " I can agree with the authors that terms like formal and informal learning are used inconsistently at times in the Learning and Development industry. MORE >>

If the organisation is still classroom-centric, then we need to think about whether the project is an opportunity to offer staff new delivery options. See my blog post  How to Design and Facilitate a Virtual Classroom for more information. Be sure to engage managers and other ‘people support’ mechanisms to address the social learning aspects and behavioural aspects lost through e-learning delivery. ” performance support at the point of need. New systems processes can be captured by screencast software (e.g. How should we go about it? MORE >>

As mentioned in a previous blog post , I recently attended Day 1 of a 2-day Virtual Learning Show. Overall view on undertaking essentially a day’s worth of webinar/virtual classrooms. The Virtual Learning Show organiser and leading authority of live online learning Colin Steed welcomes you all to this unique event. During his Keynote, Colin will take you through the current state of play in the adoption of live online learning in the UK and Europe, the main barriers that we are facing, and five trends fueling the virtual classroom revolution. MORE >>

Instead, we will call this "self-directed learning" and will do our best to support the workforce to learn it on their own with minimal guidance and support. Strategy" Fails One of the better, cheap support mechanisms for self-directed learning are web 2.0 tools. Strategies will move much slower than organizations who adopt easy to use tools and make tactical use of these tools. The answer for many organizations will be less training and more performance support in the form of toolkits. Articulate has a great tool set. 2 - eLearning 2.0 MORE >>

Accepts any courses built in any content authoring tools that are SCORM & AICC compliant – so you can upload and sell your courses that you built in Articulate, Captivate, even open source authoring tools (but they must be standards compliant). Especially, when they are building the course in a rapid content authoring tool. Something like my 3rd party content authoring tool. It is automatically converted into a single.SWF file, so you can use it with any 3rd party authoring tool. I love innovation. New concept. MORE >>