E.learning Age

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has called for more communication, collaboration and engagement between businesses and educational institutions. He also said firms should make a greater financial contribution to a system that will target economic impact more. Speaking at a CBI conference ahead of the publication of both the Higher Education Framework and the Government's Skills Strategy, Mandelson argued that a system aimed more at delivering the skills employers need also gave business res...

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Sex and E-Learning Affinity

Research conducted before mass use of the Internet found male students were more positive towards computers, and more likely to learn about the Internet than female students. However, more recent investigation has found less pronounced differences between the sexes when it comes to experience with computers, the Internet, email and e-learning. The main thrust of the research was to look at learners' autonomy, which means their "capacity for detachment, self-reflection, decision-making and ind...

Study Hails 'Pathsetter' Britain

Understanding Global Activity in Higher Education and Research: Primary desk and Web-based research is the result of JISC's look at the UK, US, Germany, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Korea, Japan, the Netherlands and New Zealand seeking an answer to a range of topical questions about the industry. Highlighting examples of innovation across the world, the study reports that the UK is at the forefront of e-learning and e-infrastructure development. The terms e-learning and e-infrastructure, which...

Nothing Succeeds Like Success

Doctors.net is one organization that traveled the first four years of the E-learning Awards in the quest for gold. Doctors.net supports GPs -- probably some of the toughest learners in the business. Often running their own businesses, frontline health care professionals are time-starved but need to keep up to date with the latest thinking and information. Doctors.net is run by doctors for doctors and revolves around the Continuing Medical Education program. The team had returned to battle it ...

And the Winners Are...

Looking back over the five years of the E-Learning Awards existence reveals an exciting, dynamic and rapidly changing environment. This year, the Awards showcase the very best examples of work in the field. The winners detailed in this article represent a broad range of organizations -- from blue-chip multinationals to tiny specialist start-ups. This year saw a huge increase in entry level, almost 200 entries from 15 different countries across a wide range of activities. With inevitably highe...

A Gig That Offers Comfort and Kudos

Video recordings, Webinars and podcasts provide the opportunity for experts to share their thoughts and experiences with a potentially huge audience. So, while the sharing of specialist expertise was once a very localized business, online delivery could lead to a more centralized approach in which a star system could begin to operate, as in films, television, books and sports. The star system already operates for specialist expertise when it comes to books, because print is a channel which is...

A Toolkit for 2010

Top ten Tools for Learning are presented. These are: 1. Prezi, 2. Evernote, 3. Dimdim, 4. Etherpad, 5. myUdutu, 6. Screenr, 7. Posterous, 8. Yammer, 9. Wordle, and 10. Flip.

It Ain't What You Do...

The world is awash with statistics on the impact of the Web on 21st century living, learning and working. The figures are accompanied by pronouncements and predictions of experts from every camp, from those heralding a brave new world of co-creation and choice, to warnings from the dark side over ethics and educational standards, tempered by increasing recognition that people may no longer be in control of such matters. Meanwhile, surveys report that around 80% of businesses have invested in ...

Real Life, Real Benefit

What a Difference a Decade Makes

Despite the hype surrounding the introduction of e-learning, the concept of a reinvention of learning (both online and classroom) to encompass knowledge sharing, performance support and practice, took off. E-learning guru Elliott Masle went on record to talk about the e in e-learning standing for experience. It was clear that 10 years on, e-learning as a term had failed to live up to the promise outlined in October 1999. However, there were some that took hold of that original vision and as t...

A Job Like Mine

Andrew Pember of City & Guilds of London Institute was working on integrating technologies in learning solutions way back in 2001, when the concepts of e-learning were just beginning to evolve. His potential was spotted by the City & Guilds of London Institute, and eight years later he is its director of learning solutions. The registered charity and leading vocational awarding body in the UK offers more than 500 qualifications across many sectors, from basic to post graduate levels. ...

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