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Learning technologies

Learning technology is at the heart of both TrainingZone.co.uk and the L&D community and generates passionate debate – from ‘the training course is dead’ to ‘blended learning is bunk’!

If you are interested in elearning, mobile learning, blended learning, using virtual worlds, gaming for training, learning management systems, or social networking, then you have come to the right place.

Webinar: Flexible working - everybody happy?

1 July 2009 - 83 reads
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When it comes to flexible working, how do you keep both employers and employees happy? Join Donald H Taylor on this free webinar on 14 July.

The Out of Office campaign

29 June 2009 - 182 reads
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TrainingZone is supporting the CMI's Out of Office campaign to equip managers so they can take a break from the pressures of work, and return refreshed.

Social networks and internet need to be ‘interwoven'

26 June 2009 - 138 reads - 1 comment
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The social networks and internet of tomorrow will mean existing as an ‘internet of subjects’ with our digital identities ‘interwoven together’, according to EifEL.

Harnessing informal learning

23 June 2009 - 788 reads
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Martin Belton argues that formal and informal learning should sit side by side, and Web 2.0 learning should be linked to business value.

Social networking: Don't ban it, embrace it

23 June 2009 - 516 reads - 2 comments
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Why do some businesses ban social networking? The message from 'Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom' author Soumitra Dutta is 'loosen control while not losing control'.

Webinar: Getting started with online training

23 June 2009 - 323 reads
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Join Roger Courville, principal and founder of the 1080 Group, on 22 July as he shares his simple tactics for getting started with interactive online training.

What do you think of your learning software?

23 June 2009 - 799 reads
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We’re just days away from the end of voting for this year’s Software Satisfaction Awards. With 8 contenders in the frame, the winner will be chosen by TrainingZone members.

Staff still need to come first

23 June 2009 - 402 reads
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With the present training budgets shrinking, organisations are going to have to be increasingly creative with what funds they have, says Kevin Young.

Kallidus 8 gets a facelift

17 June 2009 - 297 reads
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Learning management software house e2train this week added a new customisable learner's home page and an easy-to-use reporting engine to its latest release. John Stokdyk reports.

Martha Lane Fox becomes 'digital champion'

17 June 2009 - 137 reads
Martha Lane Fox: the government's new 'Champion of Digital Inclusion'
Online entrepreneur and co-founder of Lastminute.com, Martha Lane Fox, has been appointed to tackle digital inclusion across Britain and help encourage the take-up of broadband.

Learning Myths

 You only remember 10% of what you read 

Donald H Taylor, the chairman of the Learning Technologies conference, is a regular contributor to TrainingZone. He set out to challenge some frequently used 'learning myths' in a popular series on site:

You only remember 10% of what you read

You only use 10% of your brain

You can also read Martin Shovel's expose of the Mehrabian myth - that only 7% of communication is through speech.

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