Decoding Value
By Theresa Seagraves
Adapted from Quick! Show Me Your Value, this article covers how to translate the value of performance solutions into financial terms.
Online Learning for Tough Times: Keys to Rapid Development
By Ed Mayberry
Organizations face tight budgets, downsizing, and outsourcing. In response, online learning product developers must be able to improve their effectiveness by leveraging rapid development concepts. Here’s an overview of rapid development, and how you can optimize rapid prototyping for online learning.
RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal
By Stephen Downes
Rich Site Summary, or RSS, is an XML format originally designed to list the changing contents of a news Website. Today, RSS is widely used by news Websites and Weblog authors.
See also: TREND: RSS
Character Simulations Make E-Learning Come Alive
By Jennifer DeVries
In Bersin & Associates’s February 2004 market survey of some 7,000 training practitioners, respondents said that their biggest obstacle in deploying e-learning programs is the ability to engage learners in a way that leads to program completion. According to its blended learning research, high levels of mastery come directly from interaction and real world exercises. Enter character simulations.
Digital Beat: A Love-Hate Thing
By Darin E. Hartley
ROI and learning analytics are topics that Hartley gets excited—and irritated—about simultaneously. Mainly, he's excited about some of the powerful tools that are out there for training professionals. Here's a look at some of his favorites.
Designing Collaborative E-Learning For Results
By Glen Mohr and Julia M. Nault
The more connected we are, the more isolated we are. The connectivity/isolation paradox is manifesting itself in many aspects of our professional and personal lives and is a fundamental reason why e-learning programs can be unsatisfying to instructors and learners. How can we design e-learning programs to overcome the connectivity/isolation paradox?
Adapt or Die: The Strategic Role of Learning in the On-Demand Enterprise
By Tony O’Driscoll and Paula Briki
As IBM examines the impact of Internet technologies on the future of the enterprise and the work they carry out, it envisions the development of the On-Demand Era in which business models are componentized around value rather than function, technologies are autonomic (they heal themselves), and socially enabled, networked organizations anticipate market needs ahead of time.
