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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Well, the Chartered Institute of Learning and Development (CIPD), which should be taking the lead in developing its 130,000 predominantly UK-based members, has taken on the responsibility for doing something about this and has set about instilling some of what it calls ''fresh thinking in learning and development''. About time.

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APRIL 16, 2014

You really should take a look at the full report, but a few statistics caught my eye: How do staff learn what they need for their jobs? There’s an interesting table further on in the report which contrasts the perceptions of learning professionals and learners.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. Although you should really read what the report has to say on this topic, the gist is that employees want easy access to information that is relevant to their job responsibilities. enabled content management tool.

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MAY 17, 2012

Just released is the eLearning Guild’s new report, Mobile Learning: The Time Is Now , put together by Clark Quinn, who really knows his stuff on this topic. If Clark says the time is now, it probably is. In fact it probably has been since the first iPhone was launched and certainly once we got the iPad. And that’s a very big deal indeed.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Over the next few weeks I'm going to provide my own commentary to the excellent Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The report is largely the work of Steve Rayson. The first 'insight' from the report is that 'improving performance still matters the most'.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The third of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘formal courses are not dead, just different'.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The report suggests that, in 2010, the UK market will grow by “no more that 4.76% on the 2009 figure” to a total of some £472m. A brief summary of the report is available for download, free, from [link]. Learning Light has today published its estimates for the European e-learning market.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The fourth of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘Organisations need multi-device learning solutions'.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

They all involved sending learners off, individually, in pairs or in groups, to research some topic or issue and then report back to their colleagues with a highly tangible output.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Along with Dick Moore, Adrian Perry and Seb Schmoller, I have been commissioned to report to the Ufi Charitable Trust (UCT) on "priorities for interventions by the Trust and others through learning technologies in adult learning and employability in the UK". This followed the Trust's October 2011 announcement of the sale of Ufi Limited.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Towards Maturity 2010 Benchmark Report has confirmed what you would have expected to come out of a severe recession in terms of e-learning. The Towards Maturity report shows we have a way to go. This is allowing most of those working in e-learning to maintain business as usual and in some cases to grow their revenues.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The BBC news website describes a new Ofcom report which surveyed 1138 adults in the UK to determine how they spend their time, in particular the media they consume. The report came up with some other interesting data: Radio is holding its own - "It is still a very important medium for people." The findings are startling.

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JULY 19, 2011

According to an article in last Saturday's Guardian , research conducted at Columbia University and reported in Science Magazine shows just how much people have come to rely on the internet as 'an external memory source that we can access at any time'. In one experiment, participants were given pieces of information to type into a computer.

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APRIL 25, 2012

As a result, all participants reported that they felt completely confident of their ability to go straight out and run a real session. I'm pleased to report that the model worked, at least for me and for this group. And finally, they individually designed and ran a fourth session, this time on a topic of their choice.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Although the full report is not due until November, a couple of points stood out for me from a first reading of the headlines: The use of social media for learning : Of the various components to e-learning, "over the next two years, social media is expected to show the biggest growth. Do they realise it?

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JUNE 5, 2015

The report's authors characterise the purveyors of these instruments as an industry bedevilled by vested interests that tout 'a bedlam of contradictory claims' and express concerns about the temptation to classify, label and stereotype individuals."

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MAY 31, 2010

The Corporate Leadership Council reports that "the average 'job footprint' (what a worker is expected to do) has increased by a third since the beginning of the recession." Half report that their current level of work is unsustainable. And 57% feel that employees are treated like dispensable commodities.

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JULY 10, 2013

In the Foreword to the report, Iain McLeod of SAI Global Compliance, which sponsored the study, had this to say: Universally, lack of employee engagement emerged as the biggest barrier to effectiveness – and is linked strongly to the poor reputation of compliance e-learning. 20% of organisations include opportunities for staff to practice.

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JULY 7, 2011

There are lots of findings which you can read for yourself here , but I'm going to focus on one table, which I've grabbed from the summary report: The table shows preferred delivery media (and by implication in many cases) methods of managers at different levels. What surprises me?

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APRIL 12, 2013

Everyone who participates will get a free copy of the report when it is launched in July. Towards Maturity has just launched a new benchmark study looking at compliance training, particularly the ways in which learning technologies are used to support this. It should take about 15 minutes to complete and will be open until 8th May.

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JANUARY 14, 2013

I read a lot in the course of my work - blog posts, reports, books, magazines - but in reality I'm just skimming at great speed, looking for highlights. I can't remember the last time I sat down and properly studied any piece of non-fiction. Why is this?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It’s not often that I find something of relevance to learning technologies in my local Brighton paper, but the report in the Argus last Wednesday certainly got my attention. East Sussex County Council has created a simulator which members of the public can use to have their own go at deciding where the budget cuts should come.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Here are some other interesting snippets from the article: Prospects (US figures): Employment is expected to jump by 50,500 jobs, or more than 23 per cent, to 267,000 jobs by 2018, the Labor Department reports. Activity level: Average. Stress level: Pretty low. Money (US figures): Median annual earnings were $52,120 in 2009.

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APRIL 2, 2009

The report notes that "the market is favorable for learning technology suppliers, despite, or perhaps because of, the recession." " The report forecasts especially rapid growth for collaborative e-learning, mobile learning, self-paced learning, and simulations and games.

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JULY 14, 2009

In a report this year by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), assessing employee attitudes to the recession, only 35% said they trusted senior managers, only 36% have confidence in their managers, and 46% report growing stress.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As reported on MSNBC , Thrun said: "Having done this, I can't teach at Stanford again. After the astonishing success of his free online course on Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, which attracted some 160,000 registrations, Sebastian Thrun has left Stanford to start his own online university Udacity.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Of these, 54% are reporting improvements in business performance and 38% believe that blending leads to more effective learning than simply using a single ingredient. The report also reports on the winners and losers in terms of blended learning ingredients. How well established? different ingredients per blend.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

For complete novices it is probably essential in one form or another, on or off-job. Training cannot guarantee learning, because learning in the end is the prerogative of the learner, but it can have a pretty good try.

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JUNE 5, 2015

The report's authors characterise the purveyors of these instruments as an industry bedevilled by vested interests that tout 'a bedlam of contradictory claims' and express concerns about the temptation to classify, label and stereotype individuals."

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AUGUST 6, 2013

In July, the Learning and Performance Institute published an initial report summarising the results of some 983 self-assessments carried out in the previous six months against their Capability Map.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

According to a Neilsen report, as quoted in A World of Connections , a special report in The Economist on social networking, in October 2009 the countries in which users spent the most hours using social media were Australia, the UK and Italy. For each of this top three, the average user spent over six hours in the month.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Well, like before, we need intelligence and to achieve this we have the same three choices – we inform the learner so they can choose what to do next, we provide reports to third parties, such as teachers, so they can provide advice, or we update the system so it can use its own intelligence. How do we use this data?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I've just been browsing L&D 2020: Phase 1 Report: Trends, scenarios and emerging conclusions , which can be downloaded from the Training Journal site. The report was compiled by Paul Fairhurst of the Institute for Employment Studies and first released in September 2008. This one nearly passed me by completely.

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OCTOBER 3, 2008

The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 As usual with Guild reports, there's a good overall response, in this case 1160 members from 979 different organisations, of which 73% are US-based. For the purposes of the report, the authors define Learning 2.0

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The sixth of ten 'insights' is that ‘Experiential learning is an important part of the architecture'.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

According to this report, the US market for self-paced e-learning products and services (which presumably excludes anything collaborative) reached $16.7 I’m not doubting the robustness of ERM, but I can’t validate it because my share of all these billions is not enough that I can afford to pay $4825 for the full report.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The fifth of ten 'insights' is that ‘E-learning design is changing'.

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