Within the field of Training & Development the learning style of generation Y employees is a hot topic. The central question is how to prepare these youngsters for their role in the workforce. In traditional instructor-led courses this generation growing up with Social Networks and Instant Messaging will be bored within 10 minutes. Should we adapt [...]

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In an article for CLO Magazine e-learning researcher Josh Bersin described three trends to watch for Corporate Learning in 2008. Researchers like Bersin, with their strong connections to vendors of corporate learning solutions, might be slightly biased towards creating hypes. On the other hand the trends he described are too generic and vendor unrelated to [...]

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A trend in outsourcing is one-on-one outsourcing of services. This is nothing new of course, since when you hire a painter to paint your house, you are already in an outsourcing relationship. New is the fact that internet technology paves the path for new kinds of outsourced services. One-on-one tutoring via the web is such [...]

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Today I visited the 8th Dutch E-Learning Conference in Nieuwegein. During this event chaired by Harm Weistra the fields of education and training merge to discuss learning innovations. It was good to see that interest in the field of e-learning is growing again with a doubling of the audience compared to the previous year. The [...]

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Last week London Olympia was the Center of the Universe for Learning Technologies. At the 2-day conference and exhibition “Learning Technologies 2007” 200 conference attendees and more than 3,000 visitors experienced the state of art in what we used to call e-learning. The event was presented as an International Conference, but although the exhibition had [...]

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