Tags: Brandon Hal Suw Charman-Anderson is the catalyst behind Ada Lovelace Day , “an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology.” Suw described Lovelace as someone who understood that computers could do a lot more than crunch numbers. I

In this first post, part of  the Friday series “LMSs that kick ass,” I’ll be highlighting one Learning Management System (LMS). First up is Cornerstone OnDemand . I met Charles Coy, Director, Product Marketing, at our 2008 Innovations in Learning Conference

Still many different LMS vendors (Brandon Hall tracks 92 of them, adding appx 15-20 each year since 5 years ago when they began. To be in the Brandon Hall report systems do not pay to be in it, but do have to answer an extremely detailed questionnaire . Tags: Brandon Hall LM My notes taken during today's webinar . Presented by Tom Werner & Richard Nantel What do they do? Automate the administration of training. What do they contain? Databases: learners, course offerings, content, progress. Quick History: 1980 - paper age catalog, approvals , registrations , class info (all manually) attendance, evaluations, tests (all manually) count, charge-backs, reporting (all manually) process is dependent on people (admin staff) trainer dependent (collect and hand

Tags: Brandon Hal One of my professors brought to my attention a research article in AECT about theory utilization specifically, theories “functioning as conceptual tools.” 8221; The qualitative study (informed by hermeneutic, phenomenological and ethnographic approaches) explores “views and actual uses of theory in context.” 8221; The research question examines “the nature

Tags: Brandon Hal Jane Hart and I collaborated on a new report, 100+ Free E-Learning Tools for Employee Training and Personal Learning , and have just now released it. If you’re not familiar with Jane, you need to be.  Jane is a Social Media and Learning Advisor and founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) .

Here is a presentation on learning and technology (historical) done by my colleague, Gary Woodill, some time ago for Operitel and a presentation on learning technology (LMS/LCMS/Talent Management that we, Brandon Hall Research , deliver in a “101″ webinar with Learn.com which should provide an overview. became a project manager for an LMS/LCMS/Talent Management implementation; learned about systems through Brandon Hall KnowledgeBase (this big implementation was the point in time where I knew I would stay in this field) ASTD ’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.”

Tags: Brandon Hall learntrends microlearnin Just finished presenting on the topic ‘microlearning’ at the online LearnTrends conference. Hat tip to Tony Karrer, Jay Cross, and George Siemens for hosting this great event. This topic (microlearning) is kinda/sorta a new research area for me.

Continuing my Friday series featuring LMSs that kick-ass, I’m pleased to profile Latitude .  Latitude is a pure LMS so you may be wondering why the heck are they featured here. Well, because they kick-ass for their view of the role of the LMS. They feel the best way to address social, informal learning (powered

Tags: Brandon Hall E-learning Googl Here are the slides from a webinar I did on “Google Tools for Online Learning” earlier today along with some links that I promised. Using Google For Online Learning View more presentations from Janet Clarey .

Tags: multigenerational learning generational differences Brandon Hall Instructional Design generational issue Here are the slides from an online session I did yesterday on Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace .  This was the first time I presented on this topic and the first time I led a session using Saba’s Centra platform. Great questions,