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This article is a guest post by Mary Polley-Berte, Director of Customer Support & Training, SyberWorks, Inc. Learning to use web conferencing technology is pretty easy, but there is a lot more to training via web conference than just putting on a headset, dialing up an audio-conferencing bridge, and logging onto the application. This article offers some helpful tips specifically targeted to web conference training: Thanks, Mary! Companies and organizations today use web conferencing in many aspects of their organizations-to conduct meetings, collaborate on projects,

Tags: irish institute of training and development palystation generation iitd digital native T and D magazine irelan We now live in a multiplex world of many voices and ideas, mediated by the internet. At the forefront in using digital technology is the e-learning industry. I'd I'd forgotten about that. That

Any kind of training that requires significant upfront effort is going to come under increasing fire. Corporate Training Methods But what about in corporate training? Here's the graphs for corporate (non-Government, non-Education) training methods: Surprisingly little difference between Corporate and Overall in terms of the training method trends. Steve Wexler who runs eLearningGuild research has been producing some really interesting information recently. All of the data comes from surveys to the eLearningGuild membership (which is more than 30,000)

Jay Cross - father of the Informal Learning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. His recent posts make me really think (that's good) but also make me wonder ... How many people really have the opportunity to pursue the Future of Corporate Training? More on this below ... In fact, in eLearning Defined , Online Training vs eLearning - Jay and I somewhat agree that But first some context. Courseware and Broader eLearning Jay's post eLearning is not the Answer : Corporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons.

This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is: Second Life Training? More specifically: In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider essential for teaching? Just as there are considerable differences in blended learning and virtual classroom training, what are some of the major differences (surprises) in training within virtual worlds?

I've been struggling a bit to capture a concept that I believe represents a fairly fundamental shift in how we need to think about Training Design. Back in 2005, 2006 and 2007, I would regularly show the following slides to help explain the heart of what Training Design is all about and how it has changed over the years. Oh, and I called it Learning Design in the diagrams, but I'm afraid that it's really more about Training We take into account a wide variety of considerations. And we consult our delivery model options to do this fuzzy thing - Training Design.

Earlier this month I blogged about why Training companies are adopting eLearning . Reflecting on my interactions with Training Providers over the last couple of quarters, I’ve made a list of the top 8 reasons for them to adopt eLearning Client Demand : The provider’s clients have started demanding eLearning solutions (and training providers want to retain them) . There are reasons other than their clients demanding it. This is a pure survival and growth reason which I blogged about earlier.

Having been a teacher, marketer, art director, author and instructional designer , his company xTrain are leaders in online video training having won Emmys for incorporating award winning television production with software-based training. 7 Sins of Online Video Instructional Design Not connected to learners When creating video training, have the SME address the camera, do not just show screen shots. Jeremy Vest knows video design. The following is a summary of his slightly longer post that he brought to my attention today - thanks!

First of all, I hate the word training. Each and every time I type those eight letters I cringe, harking back to seemingly endless drills during my soccer (football) ‘training’ sessions as a youth. Repetitive tasks that enhance or augment a skill – that’s training – although Google brings back over 1.4 million hits on “ definition of training ” so what do I know. Learning 2.0,