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Toward Maturity's New Learning Agenda
London (UK), November 2013 - The results of the 2013-14 Towards Maturity Benchmark have been announced, and the report, "The New Learning Agenda: Talent, Technology and Change" is now available to download. The ELA Award winners have also been unveiled, and a new essential guide, The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual, has been launched. » MORE
Mobile Augmented Reality: 200 Million Globally by 2018
Hampshire (UK), November 2013 - New findings from leading hi-tech analysts Juniper Research have shown that the mobile augmented reality (AR) market is set to increase dramatically from sixty million unique users this year to nearly 200 million in 2018. The market will expand from the early-adopting gaming segment and navigation-based utility to becoming an integral part of the consumer's ecosystem. » MORE
Sixth Survey of Learning-Industry Pay Launched
Stoke Prior (UK), October 2013 - Blue Eskimo, a specialist recruitment company in the learning industry, has just launched its annual work and salary survey. The survey, now in its sixth year, is the most comprehensive study of its kind and provides the learning industry with its sole dedicated benchmark for salary and work statistics. » MORE
Mobile Devices to Be Worth 19 Billion USD by 2018
Hampshire (UK), October 2013 - New findings from leading hi-tech analysts Juniper Research has revealed that the retail revenue from smart wearable devices, including smart watches and glasses, will reach nineteen billion US dollars by 2018 compared with 1.4 billion USD this year. Revenues will be driven by high price points for these devices allied to their anticipated strong market demand. » MORE
Adult skills study results to be revealed
London (UK), October 2013 - (by Bob Little) The 16th international conference on -˜Human Capital and Investments in Education' takes place on 10th October in the Congress Centre of Prague's University of Finance and Administration - and it's there that the results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will be revealed. PIAAC focuses on the skills people need for success in the information age. It looks at the skills people use in their jobs, including: reading; numeracy; team work; communication; presentation skills; information and technology skills. » MORE
How Communication and Technology Impact Profitability
Munich (GER), September 2013 - Speexx, an award-winning provider of online corporate language training, has released a free white paper for HR and L&D professionals of global organisations. Entitled -˜Empowering Communication - What's in it for the Bottom Line?', the white paper examines current eLearning and talent-management trends and gives practical advice for reaping the full benefits offered by technology. » MORE
RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal
Barcelona (E), August 2013 - The Universities and Knowledge Society Journal (RUSC) is a semiannual open-access e-journal jointly published by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Spain) and the University of New England (UNE, Australia) that appears in January and July. The current issue has a special section focusing on the outlook and challenges for education and technology in Mexico and Latin America. » MORE
Engagement Key to Success in Compliance eLearning
Warwickshire (UK), July 2013 - A major new study has revealed that over two thirds of the organisations queried fail to engage their employees with their compliance learning programmes despite improved engagement being an objective for 98% of participants. Compliance training's poor reputation was also cited by over half of respondents as negatively impacting the success of their programmes. » MORE
5 Ideas for Embedding Learning into the Workflow
Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - This year, the annual and independent Towards Maturity Benchmark highlighted that nine out of ten learning-and-development professionals recognize the need to better integrate learning and work. In their report IMC and Towards Maturity show - with the help of survey results - innovative methods, theories, and practical case studies how to support employees in their daily working processes. » MORE
OERs and MOOCs: Old Wine in New Skins?
Berlin (GER), July 2013 - Neil Butcher is Director at Neil Butcher and Associates and OER Strategist at OER Africa, an Initiative of the Southern African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE). As an expert in OERs, and believer in the power of MOOCs to change education for the better, he is nevertheless worried about the direction in which these open online resources are being taken. In the following, he outlines his fear that new technologies are simply - and unimaginatively - being used to replicate existing educational systems and gives his own vision of the revolutionary effect MOOCs and OERs could have on learning in the future. » MORE
