I wanted to write a short review of the excellent paper written by NAACE called The Ipad as a tool for Education - A study of the introduction of iPads at Longfield Academy, Kent which is freely available. There is actually more research that I thought about these devices and this is first such paper I have read. hope the others are as informative as this one because this gives insight into the impact of giving ipads to each student in a UK secondary school over a couple of terms in the academic year of 2011/12. P4, NAACE, 2012) What I like is that staff, students and parents were surveyed. MORE >>

Implementing an ERP system – whether it’s SAP, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Microsoft Dynamics AX – is a big, hairy deal. Ensuring that end users learn the new system, embrace it as part of their daily work routine, and use it effectively is a daunting task. In a recent blog post Using Storytelling to Add the Why to ERP Training my colleague, Andrea describes it this way: The systems are complicated; users have to learn new terminology, new codes and numbers for products, vendors, accounts and everything in between. And then there are the new procedures – many, many new procedures. Really? Oh-oh! MORE >>

When I attended Learning 2012 last month, I was lucky enough to be there as part of 30 Under Thirty : a group of 30 ‘future leaders’ in learning and development. Actually, there were 32 of us in the end: Elliott explained that he usually expects a few to drop out so overfills the spaces; that didn’t happen this year but contrary to his on-stage threats at the opening session, the audience didn’t vote on which two of us to evict and we all survived the week! Although 30 is a fairly arbitrary cut-off age, I think the concept is a good one. ‘You are your own CEO.’ MORE >>

Redesign offerings to match the realities of today’s pace of business.The classroom needs to be less about information dissemination and more about information aggregation. I’m coming up on my 30th anniversary of being in the learning profession. Oh, how the world has changed. remember teaching my first Lotus 1-2-3 class on IBM portables to a group of accountants in the early ’80s. It was a three-day course from beginner through advanced. On the last day, one of my students asked me if we were considering writing a fourth day of instruction. answered, “Why? Change is constant. MORE >>

CornerstoneOnDemand just announced their Q3 numbers and they were very strong. 78% increase in year-to-year bookings and 54% increase in year-to-year revenue, bringing the company to near $120 Million in revenue by the end of this year. There are a few things going on here. CornerstoneOnDemand is the fastest-growing major LMS vendor, reinforcing itself as a leading best-of-breed talent management systems vendor. Our research shows that Cornerstone will grow to be the fourth biggest LMS vendor next year, following Oracle, SAP, and SumTotal with around 5% global market share. MORE >>