Some of the best companies today realize that continuous learning and development is key to organizational success. For this purpose, professional trainers may be hired to conduct training sessions on specific topics. These trainers have the responsibility to develop training strategies, which help in knowledge retention and enable the employees to achieve success in the…
By default, mandatory training, or mandatory anything for that matter, is not fun. And probably, at least some of your participants were mandated to follow your training. Having them show up for a live training session in which they have no other choice than to participate is one thing. But how do you motivate them…
ROI stands for "Return on Investment" and is the most commonly used financial calculation for determining the business impact of training projects. We calculate the ROI of a training project by first determining the total monetary benefit derived from the project such as increased customer satisfaction, staff reduction, productivity improvements, increased revenue, decrease costs, cost…
We have known since antiquity that the seat of learning is the human brain. But it has only been in the last decade that neuroscience researchers have been able to go inside the brain and observe how learning actually occurs at the molecular level. New technologies like diffusion imaging have opened up the brain's inner…
For-profit colleges will be barred from paying recruiters on the basis of the number of students they sign up under rules approved by the Obama administration. The June release of a draft of the restrictions on sales practices slowed enrollment growth at Apollo Group Inc.…
With extensive budget cuts looming, members of the UNC-system Board of Governors want universities to move toward a less traditional form of education.…
The Internet’s greatest achievement is without doubt how it has democratised information and learning. Knowledge one previously could not acquire without spending hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds is now available ‘for free’ with a simple Google Search.…
Texas students can now download podcasts, videos and other multimedia lessons directly from iTunes through a new online program aimed at providing free, supplementary coursework that can be accessed anywhere, state officials announced Tuesday.…
Ads for online schools are all over the Internet, plastered on billboards in subway cars and on television. The University of Phoenix, with nearly 500,000 students, is the biggest for-profit college. But some former students said they were duped into paying big bucks and going deeply in debt by slick and misleading recruiters.…
Toronto-based software firm Destiny Solutions Inc. has announced it will bring its flagship continuing education management platform to two major U.S. schools.…
Central Michigan University will begin training Dow Chemical Company employees as soon as January of 2011.…
A part of Governor Bob McDonnell’s trio of education improvement laws this year was the establishment of procedures for local school boards to contract for virtual school programs – opportunities for students to work with their curriculum and teachers over the Internet, rather than in a traditional classroom.…
With the rising cost of tuition and savings troubles of many families more students are seeking alternate higher education routes that can save some dough. One of the options gaining in popularity is online course programs.…
The purveyor of inexpensive jeans and lawnmowers is dipping its toe into the online-education waters, working with a Web-based university to offer its employees in the United States affordable college degrees.…
If you're considering changing careers or have lost a job and want to learn new skills, an online certificate program may be what you need. "Certificate programs are a solution for those who want to get a short-term, highly career-oriented, compressed program to get out into the job market," says Carol Aslanian, the senior vice…
