Product knowledge webinar

We recently ran a webinar on product knowledge e-learning. They came from from California, Merseyside, the Philippines and many points in between to share views on how to do product knowledge right. Find out what we talked about and check out our slides.

Interesting analysis of disruptive technologies by Henry Blodget in today's Sunday Times. He argues “Disruptive technologies do not immediately replace existing technologies because they are better.”

Catching the mood - reflections from the Kineo crew at ASTD

Kineo attended and exhibited at the ASTD ICE conference in Washington in June and so we had a chance to test the temperature in the US. But what did our team pick up? Here are some headline thoughts.

The eLearning Network (eLN) is a community of people involved in e-learning, from suppliers to users and key figures in the field. Kineo took part in a recent event which brought together members of the community and key speakers to give insight on the topic of ‘Creating Engaging Learning Content’. Find out what we took from (and, of course, brought to) the session.

Gen Y: They are so not interested in your learning.

We had a good look at the 2008 LMS survey undertaken by the E-Learning Guild and its findings in relation to Moodle LMS. It came as little surprise to us that Moodle has become the most used LMS by organizations of all sizes or that it was the most cost-effective LMS to install and customize. On-going costs of Moodle were also the lowest per user, not surprising given Moodle is Open Source and licence free.

We are grateful to Dave Boggs, the founder and CEO of SyberWorks, for his latest article on the benefits of e-learning. It is a very thoughtful and well researched list. We have set out his key points below, the full article is here.

Steve Rayson was the Kineo ambassador at this year's Online Educa show. This is what he found out on his travels (other than that Berlin is cold in December. But so is Brighton).

There were a huge number of sessions at this year’s Online Educa, held in Berlin at the start of December. There were so many sessions it took me some time to decide which ones to attend. After a few espressos and much debating I headed off to the various conference rooms. Below is a five minute overview of the things I found out at this year's event.

‘Doing more with less’ was the theme of the Kineo seminar held in London earlier in November.

The seminar participants included a range of Kineo clients, and those considering how to do more with less in their organisations, and eager to find out how a rapid approach could help.

This week we gave a webinar presentation on Moodle to over 100 members of the Learning and Skills Group.

You can listen to the Moodle webinar here.

The slides are below, please contact us if you want to discuss any aspect of Moodle.

At the airport on the way to my summer vacation I was browsing the bookstores for something to keep me occupied when I came across the latest Harvard Business Review.  Two articles on learning caught my eye and somewhat reluctantly I handed over my £15 for the magazine. Before we had even taken off I became engaged in Amy Edmondson’s article on the competitive imperative of learning and by the time we landed in France I was reading the article by Kotter on strategies for managing change and the critical importance of learning. It is fair to say that the book I was supposed to be reading for my book club, Salmon Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, didn’t really get a look in during my flight.

There are some great points for learning professionals from these articles. Here’s my summary, so your summer reading can be a little lighter…

Articulate today launched their new pro studio suite Articulate 09. Packed with new features, Articulate 09 makes it easier than ever to create world class rapid e-learning.

How can you deliver business benefits with rapid e-learning? We are bringing together some experts in the field from Kineo, HSBC, Cable & Wireless and other organisations to discuss what works in practice.

We will be getting together in Covent Garden, London on November 12th - and we’re inviting you to join us.

Consolidation continues on the technology supply side of the the e-learning market with another merger.

Over 250 delegates and more than 30 speakers and facilitators gathered at Olympia for the first Learning and Skills Group Conference on 30th April 2008. We decided to join them to see what all the fuss was about.

The View from Sheffield

Wendy Weller-Davies, Kineo Sheffield’s Project Director, shares the view from her new office window.

 
Ian and the guys promised us a great Learning Technologies this year with more pre-registered visitors, 120 exhibitors and 40 seminar sessions. We are pleased to say they didn’t disappoint. There was a great sense of buzz as you walked around the place.

If there’s one thing you can predict with absolute certainty in e-learning, it’s that there will be quite a few prediction lists doing the rounds in January. We hate to be left out….

In January this year we asked various industry experts for their predictions for 2007. Now it’s time to revisit those Ghosts of E-learning future to see if they rattled the right chains. Let’s see how they did – and there’s still a few days left in the year so a few might come good yet….

Last week we gave a presentation to the E-learning Network event on free e-learning. The focus of our presentation was on the availability of free tools that can enhance your e-learning developments.

Get Acquainted with LinkedIn

We’ve been tracking the use of LinkedIn over the last few years, keeping up with old acquaintances in our industry and beyond, hooking up with others by inviting them to join our LinkedIn groups.

12 Unavoidable Truths About E-Learning

We came across this great article by Kenneth Carlton Cooper on the 12 Unavoidable Truths About E-Learning

Kenneth argues that in the haste to “get it out there,” organisations are ignoring some basic realities about technology and learning, as well as about today’s learners.  His article is reproduced in full below.

The Alison project provides you with completely free ICDL/ECDL e-learning modules.

You can register and explore more here. 

ELearning Guild LMS Report

While we were at the E-Learning Guild Annual Gathering, the Guild launched its latest LMS survey. We were right there to muse on its findings hot off the presses.

A report released this week (March 2007) by Eduventures, Sloan Consortium, and Babson College, shows a slow but steady decline in the percentage of blended courses offered by colleges and universities, while purely online courses continue to grow. At the same time, the report found that colleges and universities have not been meeting consumer demand for online course offerings.