October 10 Newsletter
KINEO NEWSLETTER
Issue 59 - October 2010
Content this month:
Case study: Delivering ROI through award-winning e-learning for McDonald’s
Webinar invite for Thursday: Delivering business results through e-learning
Rapid e- learning hits the road!: NY and Philly live events
Audio interview: Clark Quinn on e-learning design crimes
Tool review: Using Flypaper to catch us some e-learning!
E-Learning market update for October
Kineo monthly Moodle update
Top tip: A shot of theory! Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction
>> Editor's note:
Last month it was ‘back to school’ time. So is it too early to start talking about results? Not in e-learning. This month we look at how you can prove that your e-learning is working as hard as you are.
We share a case study from our work with McDonald’s, showing how an investment financial skills e-learning for restaurant managers has already generated great returns. We’re delighted to announce that it’s being considered for an Articulate Guru award this month – big up to our friends at McDonald’s!
We’ll be talking about McDonald’s and then some (see what we did there?) later this week. We’re running a webinar with our friends at the Learning Skills Group this Thursday at 10am UK time that’s all about how to set up your e-learning to deliver results. We’ll be joined by our client from M&S, so you don’t have to hear it only from us.
Elsewhere, we talk to the often cantankerous, always entertaining Clark Quinn on crimes in e-learning – and not measuring has got to be one of the big ones.
With tool reviews, market updates and more, we hope this month’s round- up results in something valuable for you.
Stephen
1. Case study: Delivering ROI through award-winning e-learning for McDonald’s
We’ve been privileged to partner with the great team at McDonald’s, here in the UK over the past year or so. In this time we’ve gone from an initial prototype to a full suite of e-learning, part of which, we’re proud to say, is being considered for an Articulate Guru Award in the US. Woo-hoo! McDonald’s have kindly donated the prize money to charity. We’ve kindly (or boldly ) shared a new case study this month that tells you more about the approach we took that’s led to cost savings of over £1 million for McDonald’s in the first year. That’s what we like to see.
You can read the case study and an excerpt from part of the award-winning e-learning here.
2. Webinar invite for Thursday: Delivering business results through e-learning
If the McDonald’s case study worked up your appetite for more about results and ROI in e-learning, then come and join us at the buffet on Thursday. We’re running a webinar led jointly with our friends at the Learning and Skills Group to explore just that.
We’re co-presenting with our client at M&S who’ll talk through the great successes of the M&S Café project we profiled in last month’s case study.
We’ll talk about:
- Choosing your metrics and setting a baseline
- Focusing on the behavioural changes that will deliver results
- Getting implementation right – what’s worked in M&S and McDonald’s
- Communicating your success within the business
- Building on success with managers and learners
The session is Thursday 7th October at 10am UK time (apologies to our friends in the US and elsewhere for the midnight slot – we’ll record and share it later).
It’s free to join, but space is limited. Email us at info@kineo.com to book your place.
3. Rapid e- learning hits the road: live events in New York and Philadelphia
Although we talk a lot about e-Learning, we still like to do things face- to- face from time to time. Come hang out with us in New York or Philadelphia as we talk about rapid e- learning for the enterprise, along with some of our colleagues from Articulate and ARAMARK.
Join Tom Kuhlman, VP Communication at Articulate; Liviu Dedes, VP Organizational Effectiveness and Development at ARAMARK; Mark Harrison, Senior Learning Consultant at Kineo; and Cammy Bean, VP Design at Kineo as we share our ideas on what’s ‘hot to trot’ in rapid e- learning for the enterprise.
New York, November 9th 8am— 11am
Philadelphia, November 10th 8am— 11 am
It’s free to join, but space is limited. Email us at info@kineo.com to find out more.
4. Audio interview: Clark Quinn on e-learning design crimes
Clark Quinn. If you’re in e-learning, you probably know the name. But is he a self-avowed genial malcontent, or an agent provocateur who likes to stir things up in the name of better learning designs? A bit of both, probably. Just like us. In this month’s audio interview, we stray with some trepidation into the true crime genre. Have a listen as Clark and our own Cammy Bean unravel the crimes of Instructional Design Malpractice, currently being committed in a module near you. Be careful out there.
(Hmm, Bean and Quinn – CSI ID. That’s a primetime show pitch in the making, no? Come on people, someone greenlighted Pushing Up Daisies. I’m sure that person is still working...)
Listen to the pilot – I mean, interview – here.
5.Tool review: Flypaper
Nothing like catching some Flash interactions with some Flypaper! Our own Theo Cardiff rolled out the Flypaper to do our latest authoring tool review. Do you think she caught anything good?
Read on for her review and recommendation here.
6. E- learning market update, October 2010
Ours is not a static industry, that’s for sure! The latest report by Global Industry Analysts forecasts that e-learning market will reach $107.3bn by 2015. Are you ready for that kind of continued growth? We say bring it on.
For the full October report, click here.
7. Kineo monthly Moodle update
It’s October and time for another Moodle update. So, what’s going on in Moodle land? Our own Mark Aberdour weighs in with the latest news.
To find out more, click here.
8. Top tip: A shot of theory! Gagne’s Nine Events
It’s time once again for your shot of theory. Really, it won’t hurt… promise. This time, we’ll take a quick journey through Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction.
Review them here. |
