Collaboration Shift - what is it and how to make it work for your organization

jeffrey.roth@interactyx.com — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

I am inviting you to make a shift in your world view this year around collaboration. I am asking you to look the processes you’re involved with from a new perspective. Start with a basic question: “What if I had the ability to interact with anyone I wanted whenever I wanted to or could find information whenever I needed it?” What would this do for you or for your business?

A Social eLearning Site for your Organization – At What Expense?

patrick.batty@interactyx.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

As an organization at the forefront of the social eLearning movement we’re often asked what type of expenses an organization should plan on to implement a social learning strategy in tandem with the organization’s blended or eLearning offerings.

Clearly it’s a difficult question to address given the number of variables one would encounter.

Bersin & Associates recently published their UK Training and Development Factbook® 2010. Their research showed some very interesting comparisons to their findings in the US.

Over the last year, many people have asked me why we used components of Moodle to build a distinct eLearning product / service rather than just using Moodle in its native mode and offering a hosting and implementation service.

It’s a fair question, as Moodle offers a great deal of facility for those that have the ability, time, and / or funds to build out the platform to its fullest, to create a true social learning environment for their use. We r [...]

How can your learning organization become more competitive in today’s marketplace?

al.novas@interactyx.com — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Each quarter, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) publishes the Learning Executive Confidence Index reflects a “modest sense of optimism among learning organizations” in Q4 2009.

Do you want to increase employee and company capability while also being strategically positioned for future success?

The three MUST DO's for 2010 include:

1. Developing leaders as teachers,

2. Driving company profitability through learning excellence; and

3. [...]

Sell Content Online 24/7 with the TOPYX Online Learning Center For Free – Start today!

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

You are invited to make your content available for sale on the TOPYX® Online Learning Center (the "OLC") free of charge. TOPYX is known for the social eLearning software solutions for businesses, academic institutions, associations and for eCommerce opportunities. Now, we are making the same great tools available for anyone to participate and reap the benefits of our software... with no capital outlay, no programming, and no long wait to get started.

Current valuation estimates of the company are in the order of $1 billion, and users are expected to reach 250 million over the next few years.

As an eLearning provider, on a daily basis, we are talking to schools that looking at using it both for themselves as well as possibly having their s [...]

Extending Moodle with Social Learning

patrick.batty@interactyx.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Moodle has been a tremendous boon for schools and associations looking to pull away from the grips of enterprise LMS vendors over the last few years.

It’s also been a nice entry point for those wishing to dabble in elearning for the first time.

While it has both is fans as well as its detractors, it clearly has its place.

That said, we feel there is significant room for improvement in a number o [...]

Facebook Apps for eLearning

patrick.batty@interactyx.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Facebook has been making many inroads into education over the last few years. Many institutions are using Facebook sites to publi [...]

Anytime, Anywhere – Informal learning spurred on by technology

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The web is spoiling us when it comes to learning. If we want to know the exact words to an obscure song or quote a search engine will deliver the answer in seconds. There are video tutorials on YouTube for just about anything you can dream or think up. And if you have question that can’t be answered through search, you ca [...]

How Much Moodle Really Costs...

patrick.batty@interactyx.com — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Moodle has gained many users over the last few years as universities, colleges, departments and institutions look at trimming their budgets. Clearly many schools simply are saying NO to the high fees charged by Blackboard or other traditional learning management systems.

Moodle is a highly capable product and is available as open source software, the [...]

The True Cost of Open Source

patrick.batty@interactyx.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Have you ever calculated the true cost of an “Open Source” project?

At our company, we’ve reviewed a few open source components for our own products, including some aspects of Moodle and Boonex. In certain areas, the inte [...]

Engage Channels and Deliver Success

bob.brogan@interactyx.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The highly dispersed nature of any company's sales organization is a fact of life for every business. Whether you sell direct, via manufacturer's reps, wholesalers, distributors or retail, the ability to engage these channels is the second leading issue facing business executives today (see table below). Sales leadership in many corporations are hiding behind the economic doldrums excuse (with some legitimacy), but "best-in-class" Sales Executives are delivering results in spite of these re [...]

Training for the Ages

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Many of us have a workforce filled with a mix of baby Boomers, Traditionalists and Generation X & Y and this means Training Departments need to tailor technology in training and delivery very carefully. Seeking input on how workers view your training resources is important. Have you ever asked your employees to evaluat [...]

Leapfrog Your Competition: Four Strategies to Help SMBs Leverage eLearning

bob.brogan@interactyx.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Below is a terrific article from Elearning! Magazine for SMB and Franchise O [...]

Social Networking around the Classroom... Good or Bad?

patrick.batty@interactyx.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Over the last few months I’ve had input from hundreds of people about how they were using Twitter and Facebook as social networking tools around their various academic programs.

In some cases it became quite a contentious issue whether tools such as Twitter w [...]

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