Keep Informed: Read Workplace Learning Today We've just launched a new Blog and RSS feed. Workplace Learning Today is a group effort by senior Brandon Hall Research analysts Janet Clarey, Richard Nantel, Tom Werner, and Gary Woodill to provide readers with a daily summary of news, events, commentary, and research on all aspects of workplace learning. | |
| Using Second Life® for Workplace Learning: Analysis and Resources | |
Second Life is the best known virtual world environment and has attracted huge amount of interest from the learning community. Thought leaders in training profession have described its potential enthusiastically. Although most workplace learning efforts in Second Life are in the early stages, some intriguing early-adopter implementations exist. This report provides the key information you need to help you evaluate the potential benefits of using this platform. Continue > |  |
Mobile Learning: The Essential Information for Training Professionals | |
| Learning analysts have for years been predicting wide adoption for mobile learning. But, until now, this has not occurred. Mobile phone companies are at last seeing cell phones as miniature Web-enabled computers in people's pockets rather than portable telephones. Consequently, smart phone sales are soaring. This report provides you with the key information you need to expand beyond a desktop-based learning strategy towards one where people can learn anywhere, anytime. Continue > |  |
| Customer Service Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards | |
| Gaining customers for your products and services is hard. Keeping them as satisfied customers is even harder. Consumers have so many product and service choices now that they'll quickly abandon a company if the quality of its customer service is lacking. Consequently, customer service training has never been more important. This report contains nine case studies and online excerpts of customer service courses submitted to the 2007 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards. Continue > |  |
| Building and Fostering Virtual Learning Communities | |
| Extensive evidence suggests that effective learning communities provide important benefits for learners and their organizations. Apart from significant gains in learning, benefits include reducing isolation, enhancing collegiality, increasing job satisfaction, and Instituting new approaches to solving problems. This report provides you with the key information you need to understand and foster virtual learning communities within your organization. Continue> |  |
| How Learning Management Systems are Integrating Social Learning Technologies: Review and Outlook | |
This report will provide you with an understanding of how new social learning technologies such as blogs, wikis, peer rating of content , and tagging/bookmarking, are being integrated into learning management systems, making the addition of Web 2.0 technologies to your learning strategy easy. Continue> |  |
| Creating Online Tests and Assessments: 19 Easy-to-Use Tools | |
| Your courseware may be well-organized, instructionally sound, and full of “wow” factor, but without the right kind of testing, you’ll never know how effective your learning really is. This report can help you quickly see which tools will be right for your organization. Continue> |  |
Learning Technologies for Healthcare Education and Training | |
| Since human lives are at stake, training in the healthcare industry is rigourous, intensive, and critical. Complicating matters, the medical world changes quickly as new procedures, practices, and technologies are introduced at an ever faster rate. To meet these challenges, healthcare has in the last decade embraced innovative learning technologies. This report provides an analysis of how the medical world uses a multitude of learning strategies to improve performance. Continue > |  |
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Training and Development: The Business Brief | |
| This report provides only the key information busy learning professionals need to know about collaborative learning. What is computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)? What can CSCL do for training and development? What can collaborative learning do for a business? What software and hardware do I need to implement CSCL? And more. Continue > |  |
| Containing 40-60 page profiles of 76 systems, Brandon Hall Research's LMS KnowledgeBase is the most comprehensive resource available to help you compare learning management systems and select the system that best meets your needs. Continue> |  |
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