I recently attended one of Elliott Masie’s Learning Directions sessions held at the Southwest Airlines home office in Dallas. Elliott Masie is an “internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher, and organizer on critical topics of workforce learning, business collaboration and emerging technologies.” Masie said “If we aren’t experimenting, we’re holding on to the ritual.” Around the Office eLearning Employee Engagement Performance Improvement ej4 elearning Elliott Maise learning directions Elliott Masie learning and developmentIt’s been awhile. MORE >>

started in learning technology developing and then managing a product called Ingenium (Jim and I first met back then) at a company called Meliora Systems. Are you running the new version of SharePoint under development (version 15) internally or do you use SharePoint 2010 internally? know there is a lot of interest (for example within the Masie Consortium ) in this area. We have built our own tool that we use to develop online training and assessments. Interview Academy Corporate training Federico LMS Masie Microsoft OfficeTalk Search SharePoint 15 SumTotal Systems MORE >>

In keeping up with our trend this week of offering newly available and FREE resources to help keep you informed and up-to-date on learning and elearning, we offer you this link to the Masie Center’s open source e-book, “Learning Perspectives,&# with contributions by “40 Global Learning Leaders.&#. Many thanks to the MASIE Center for providing this great book! If you’re curious about the four key elements of training within the Central Intelligence Agency, for example, this is your resource. MORE >>

The MASIE Center has released the summary results of a 69-question survey conducted earlier this year on Learning Management Systems. 68% of organizations develop learning content through a combination of in-house development and external development. The survey participants were from the Learning CONSORTIUM and from their Learning Systems Roundtable held in mid-April. There were 199 responses received, and as Elliott notes, "The data provides interesting insight into how the world of Learning Systems is evolving." Question 9). tools. 22, 23). MORE >>

'When you look at the numbers associated with workplace learning and development, the investment in leader performance jumps out. companies have increased leadership development spending 14 percent over 2011 levels to an estimated $13.6 Can we rely on training and development for leaders? No surprise, there is great interest in alternative methods to develop and support leaders and managers. However, as enticing as they are, mobile devices are not major players in enterprise workforce development, in general, and in leader development, in particular. MORE >>