e-Learning

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Century 21: Bringing Learning Home

Tim Sosbe 8/22/02

Managing training at a large corporation like Century 21 is no small challenge. With about 88,000 agents and 4,400 brokers dispersed across 30 countries, the paperwork alone stacks up like a mortgage application. But a mission is a mission, and at Century

Training Drives Business Success for Reynolds and Reynolds

Emily Hollis 8/1/02

Chief learning officers and others in charge of finding training solutions for their organizations are driven to focus on getting a financial return on their investments in learning. But often, getting a return on investment (ROI) involves far more. Reyno

Enterprise Learning: A Spending Summary

Gary Gabelhouse 8/22/02

The enterprise-learning market is 37 percent larger than the U.S. motion picture industry, and more than twice as large as the burgeoning video-game industry. Even in the midst of the most recent economic recession, enterprise spending on learning grew 1.5

Consolidation in the Knowledge Management Sector

Peter L. Martin 8/24/02

With all the fear currently residing in the market, consolidation is being widely discussed. The topic of consolidation is often thrown about as if deals are started and closed over a weekend. This is not the case, which is why attrition is end result for

Technology - Training and Technology: Methods That Work in a Global Enterprise

Martin Bean 8/25/02

As chief learning officers, you are charted with cost-effectively managing training and ensuring knowledge transfer through your initiatives. In the past couple of years, you may have been caught in the e-learning boom and quite possibly have been burned.

Increasing Sales Force Productivity

Sam Reese 8/25/02

Maintaining a strong sales force during difficult times is where training and development organizations struggle to maintain ground, as training budgets often become the focus of cost-cutting initiatives. The right type of salesperson can be a point of di

Environment - The CLO's Role: Balancing the Learning Mix in Outsourced Environments

Steve Lynch 8/25/02

The State of e-Learning

Kevin Kruse 8/25/02

Falling stock prices, failed LMS implementations, poor course completion rates, slashed corporate budgets. In the face of all that, will e-learning be remembered as nothing more than a late salvo in the dot-bomb campaign?

The Critical Element of an Enterprise Learning Strategy

Clomedia.com Editor 8/25/02

If there is a single role that differentiates the CLO from other learning professionals, it is that the CLO must set the overall learning strategy for the enterprise. But what is a learning strategy, and what does it include? The most important element o

Enterprise Learning: The New 'Killer App'

Trisha Bright and Chris James 8/25/02

The increasing presence on executive staffs of a chief leaning officer or someone with a similar title represents the emerging recognition that an organization's talent is a strategic asset- an essential element in achieving organizational goals.

E-Learning Myths and Realities for the IT Professional

Researched and written by Kim Baker 8/27/02

The potential impact of e-learning on today's companies is seemingly enormous. By providing personalization of courses, anytime/anywhere learning, more effective training and an increase in productivity, e-learning appears positioned to provide training

Learning Solutions - Learning Objects: Behind the Buzz

Richard Clark and Allison Rossett 8/29/02

At conferences and in planning meetings, people concerned with education, training and performance improvement are talking about learning objects. What are they? What do learning objects promise your organization? And are they delivering on their promises

E-Learning: The Second Wave

Tom Graunke, CEO - KnowledgeNet Inc. 9/1/02

Is Sales and Marketing e-Learning Giving You Customer ROI?

Jennifer Bulka and Beatrice Blatteis 9/2/02

In 1999, PurchasePro spent a small fortune on instructor-led training (ILT) for sales, customer service, vendors and clients. They knew that e-learning suited their product well, yet e-learning wasn't ready for (Web) primetime. ILT was still more valuable

VWR Takes Learning Around the World

Clomedia.com Editor 9/3/02

Evaluating E-Learning Solutions

Clomedia.com Editor 9/3/02

The power of e-Learning has brought about a new context for learning in the training industry. The exciting universe of e-Learning balances the traditional classroom approach (ILT) and the constantly evolving technology-based learning (TBT). This balance

The Convergence of E-learning and Human Capital Development

Joe Ellis 9/3/02

To e or not to e ? That isn’t the question! ... Over the past year, e-learning has been variously described as the cosmic solution for all corporate learning problems or as a vast disappointment. Has e-learning been oversold by well intentioned but sho

Collaborative Tools for e-Learning

Curtis J. Bonk, Ph.D. 11/1/02

When my colleague Padma Medury and I conducted a survey on collaborative technologies and groupware in 1990, little did we know the degree to which Web-based tools would reshape and elevate this field. We discovered conferencing and collaboration tools fo

Grant Thornton: Collaboration Is the Key

Tim Sosbe 11/1/02

Working together is at the heart of collaboration, whether “together” means in the same office or just on the same planet (for now). When your company works with others for a living, as does the accounting, auditing and tax service firm Grant Thornton, co

Learning Styles: What's Right for Your Enterprise?

Douglas A. Ready, Ph.D. 11/1/02

When I was a child, admittedly now a long, long time ago, one of the most favorite games we played in school and in our neighborhood was “Simon Says.” The rules of the game are incredibly simple: Do exactly, but only, what Simon tells you to do. If the ga

Xerox and Qwest: Reaching Out to Workers

Tim Sosbe 11/1/02

Ongoing employee education is crucial to businesses surviving and thriving in competitive and uncertain markets. The delivery of that education, of course, is just as crucial, as different workers respond differently to different modalities. Technology, t

Web Resources

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

SAFECO's Aggressive Management Performance Initiative

Jami York 11/1/02

Seattle-based SAFECO provides insurance and related financial products to individuals and businesses throughout the world. A Fortune 500 company, SAFECO provides products through more than 17,000 independent agents and financial advisors throughout the wo

Corporate Universities: A Powerful Model for Learning

Bonni Frazee 11/1/02

Corporate universities were first created in the late 1980s as an enhancement to traditional training departments. This new approach was designed to align the training arm of companies with the organizations’ vision and strategy. Critics claim that higher

Cypress University Helps Grow Learning

Amy Corrigan 11/1/02

When Cypress Semiconductor Corp., a provider of high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communication system applications, was faced with widespread company growth, it needed to redesign its training prog

Education Plus: Online Education Models

Brian Mueller 11/1/02

Read any article on the current state of academics, and you’ll find stories about how online learning is revolutionizing the practice of higher education, whether for better or for worse. On the one hand, students and institutions tout the convenience of

Amplifon: Boosting Sales Force Training

John L. Hall 11/1/02

Amplifon Group, a large, multinational company specializing in the manufacturing and selling of medical devices with a primary focus on hearing aids, employs approximately 2,750 people worldwide and continues to expand. Amplifon’s assembly operations and

3Dlabs: Accelerating Market Education

Eric Vidal 11/1/02

3Dlabs Inc., a leading supplier of graphics accelerator solutions to a broad range of professionals including the computer-aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC) and visual simulation markets, was looking to outfit key business groups such as

Fred Harburg--Connecting Motorola with Learning

Tim Sosbe 11/1/02

If you have the chance to read Fred Harburg�s resume, you�ll find a rather impressive listing of positions. Prior to becoming chief learning officer and president of Motorola University, Harburg�s past boasts organizations like IBM, Saturn, Disney, G

Enterprise Learning Forecast: Changes on the Landscape

Gary Gabelhouse 11/1/02

We’ve all heard it before. The only constant in this world is change. In the marketplace of enterprise learning, we have adopted this as a mantra. Many corporate-learning pundits and corporate executives forecast huge shifts away from instructor-led train

Front-Line Managers: Training's Biggest Asset

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

In my last column, I discussed how every training department should establish itself as an investment, not an expense. Once this perspective is adopted, training programs need to align themselves with the organization’s best resources to guarantee success

The Killer App for Managing Talent

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

“The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.” – Peter Drucker, “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”

e-Learning CrOp Circles

Kevin Kruse 11/1/02

Does your organization have an e-learning CrOp Circle? No, I haven’t seen the new Hollywood movie “Signs.” I’m not talking about alien-created patterns in fields of wheat. What I mean is a circle of professional e-learning developers who are dedicated to

Will Customers Get Derailed by the e-Learning Shakeout?

Sam S. Adkins 11/1/02

The e-learning industry appears to be stabilizing in the recession. E-learning companies in business today have survived the dot-com meltdown and have adapted to the challenges of a recessionary market. It sure looks like there is a light at the end of th

Starting Out Right

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

Training: Expense or Investment

Clomedia.com Editor 11/1/02

Assessing Learning Management Systems

Clomedia.com Editor 12/11/02

Enterprise Architecture for e-Learning: Working With the CIO

Clomedia.com Editor 12/11/02

Sorting Through Solutions

Norm Kamikow 1/6/03

If you listen to the social pundits, we live in a time of excess. Fast food, fast cars, get-rich-quick schemes, instant gratification that takes too long. It’s a go-go world full of a dizzying array of options, choices, systems and solutions.

Chief Learning Officers for Universities

Irving H. Buchen 1/6/03

Why would a university of all places need a chief learning officer? Isn’t that like bringing coals to New Castle? Or disciples to MIT? Are not all or most professors CLOs? But looking more closely, and especially from the inside, there are at least three

Here to Stay

Clomedia.com Editor 1/6/03

What Is Rapid E-Learning?

Clomedia.com Editor 1/6/03

How Can the Classroom Save Your E-Learning Programs?

Clomedia.com Editor 1/6/03

As you could see from reading the premier issue of this publication, e-learning is hot. Everyone’s looking to it as the next great training frontier, with good reason. Unlike other training technologies and methodologies that have entered the fray over th

Internet Learning and Productivity: Creating a Virtuous Spiral

Clomedia.com Editor 1/6/03

The relationship between productivity and learning has often been hard to demonstrate in the business world. The key question that remained unanswered is how to ensure a value on investment from learning projects. In a broader context, learning presents p

Enough Already! Getting Off the ROI Bandwagon

Kevin Kruse 1/6/03

First came the articles, then the books, and now I see that an entire conference is devoted to the ROI of training. Obviously we’re seeing a backlash against the orgy of IT spending of the late 1990s, and against e-learning initiatives that fell short of

Assessing Learning Management Systems

Clomedia.com Editor 12/11/02

Although e-learning got off to a shaky start in the late 1990s, industry analysts are now bullish about the enabling technologies, notably enterprise learning management systems (LMSs), both in terms of growing adoption rates and quick return on investmen

BellSouth Saves with LMS and Online Learning

Charles Davidson 1/6/03

Companies that operate in regulated industries, like BellSouth, must negotiate many complex rules and guidelines. Over the years, BellSouth has expanded into unregulated businesses such as Internet solutions and a yellow pages subsidiary. But its core com

Deloitte Consulting: Educating a Global Team

Tim Sosbe 1/6/03

As executives with a strong interest in the delivery of learning, you don't have to be told that education is big business. Whether your business is manufacturing or marketing, there are undeniable advantages to leading a well-trained team.

Ted Hoff: Leading IBM's Education Solutions

Tim Sosbe 1/6/03

IBM is no stranger to the concept of corporate education. In fact, providing workforce development opportunities is part of the technology giant's corporate heritage, a time-tested effort to ensure market leadership through top-notch associates trained an

Measures of Learning Effectiveness

Michael Brannick 1/6/03

There is no question about it. Training and development is gaining attention in Corporate America. The industry is growing and changing to achieve a variety of goals, from satisfying immediate employment skill shortages to meeting organizations’ long-term