Shaking Up Blended Learning

Patrick Batty — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Blended Learning as a concept is widely used in the academic, corporate and non profit sectors throughout the world. We're seeing a great deal of change in it's utilization, and in my blog today, I'll try to highlight some of the changes.

Historically, as Margaret Driscoll pointed out in her paper for IBM Global Services "Blended Learning: Let's Get Beyond the Hype" when institutions c...

Six weeks of blogging rules that also apply to Twitter - Week 5

Jodi Harrison — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

For the next few weeks I am providing tips for your blogging, which also benefit the Twitter users that want to drive more traffic back to their websites.

Tip 5 – Make it Easy for Readers to Connect

Quickly think of some of your favorite blogs that you read regularly. Interactyx? TechCruch? Problogger? Something that is common with peop...

Online Education Beats the Classroom

Alfred R. Novas — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

On Wednesday, August 19, the New York Times published an article based on a 12 year study comprehensive study on online education at all levels (K-12, college and adult continuing education programs of all kinds) was recently published. The study encompassed 99 quantitative studies comparing online and instructor lead courses.

Conclusion - online education ...

Finding Nirvana for the Small and Mid-Market HR Executive: Addressing the 8 Hidden E’s

Bob Brogan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Small and mid-market HR Executives face a daunting challenge in providing transformational leadership with limited/reduced budgets and resources. These executives must perform superhuman feats to address their organization's key needs to achieve business objectives by addressing 8 hidden E's:

Engage different employees and constituent groups,
Enable distributed employees in an economic and eff...

Using Social Networking to Build, Train and Engage Association and Non Profit Members

Patrick Batty — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Over the last number of months, as well as working with many higher education institutions and corporations that were looking for new tools to assist them with their students / staff, we have also met many associations and non profit organisations that are looking for solutions to build and retain membership, train members and volunteers, and generally keep members connected with the organisation.

What tools are prestigious schools incorporating into their eLearning programs?

Alfred R. Novas — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School implemented a state of the art virtual learning environment (VLE) with Interactyx Limited’s TOPYX® VLE platform. Beginning this term, the candidates of its Executive MBA program will use the TOPYX platform.

Judge Business School is built on an ethos of collaboration. Accordingly, it searched fo...

Sales Leadership: Stop Making Excuses, Engage Your Channels and Deliver Success

Bob Brogan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +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...

What if Textbooks Disappeared?

Patrick Batty — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

As reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education many states are implementing budget cuts of 5% -15%.

http://chronicle.com/article/Further-State-Budget-Cuts-Loom/47448/

Clearly, the entire issue is a complex one. Tax revenue to the states and municipalities has decreased based on both lower ...

Six weeks of blogging rules that also apply to Twitter - Week 4

Jodi Harrison — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

For the next few weeks I am providing tips for your blogging, which also benefit the Twitter users that want to drive more traffic back to their websites.

Tip 4 – Make Your Blog Unique

There are a lot of things you can do to make your blog stand out:

Have a unique designWrite long detailed posts in a niche that writers write short informative ones ...

Cash for LMS clunkers - Why are corporations dumping their legacy learning management systems ...

Alfred R. Novas — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

In the current edition of Chief Learning Officer magazine, Josh Bersin, the well respected founder of Bersin & Associatesindicates that of those large corporations that have learning manage...

Understanding the Benefits of eLearning 2.0

Jeffrey Roth — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

What is eLearning 2.0? How can I incorporate social networking and mobile learning tools? How easy is it to get started with eLearning software? These are very important questions that people face when looking into available eLearning solutions. Trying to communicate all of the benefits of what TOPYX has to offer is no easy task. When we say "eLearning 2.0 Software as a Service solution with integrated social networking, content management, mobile learning and eCommerce functionality" many p...

Six weeks of blogging rules that also apply to Twitter - Week 3

Jodi Harrison — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

For the next few weeks I am providing tips for your blogging, which also benefit the Twitter users that want to drive more traffic back to their websites.
Tip 3 – Take Part in the Conversation
Blogging is not just about you and it’s actually not even just about your readers. It also includes the conversation that goes on between your blog and others in the same industry. Read the blog of others and leave comments to let them know what you think about their sites.
Link out to othe...

Social eLearning Software Blog - August 2009