“Eyes forward. If you can’t pay attention, I’ll rap your knuckles with my ruler.” This may be an echo of a strict Catholic education or it may be a hyperbole of how your child is being trained at school, but either way, it doesn’t have a place in how you educate the adult learners in …

Like it or not, 2 out of every 3 organizations are using SharePoint, Microsoft’s unstoppable platform for communications, collaboration and information management. SharePoint can be a great tool for learning organizations and it represents potential competition for a learning portal. The good news is that SharePoint’s array of options for integration that make it an …

As learning professionals, we know the importance of learning on employee engagement and turnover. According to the National Research Business Institute, 23 percent of employees leave for lack of development opportunities and training. The costs associated with losing talent, including money, lost productivity, recruitment expenses and training investments, have been well documented.…

Collaboration is essential to form a unified company, but it's a challenging endeavor for large companies that span the globe. How do you effectively connect employees across continents to engage in project development initiatives? Pearson, a global leader in education, technology and services, has embarked on a solution to close this continental divide with a …

There’s substantial buzz sweeping through today’s conference rooms and around water coolers about all things mobile—and for good reason. With 5 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, 72 percent of the U.S. workforce already mobile and 200 percent year-over-year growth for tablet computers, companies are well beyond debating if mobile is a good strategy… and are now …

The evolution of e-learning was a big change for both learners and educators. It caught the fancy of people across the board, although, initially, e-learning was a bigger hit in the corporate training world. K-12 was slow to adopt it but has caught up since. In higher education too, there was a resistance in the …

In the past few years, technology advancements have made it easy to deliver training conveniently and cost-effectively online or through blended sessions that combine both online and in-person techniques. The use of virtual classroom solutions enables you to reach more learners, more often, and extend the reach of your learning offerings to virtually anywhere in …

Introducing social learning for employees, partners and customers is a source of concern for many companies because of its unstructured nature and lack of an immediately apparent context in a formal company environment. Chief learning officers know they must address several business issues, including loss of control over learning, soft or non-existent metrics, and how …

The term mLearning, or mobile learning, refers to the use of a mobile device such as an iPod, BlackBerry, PDA, or smart phone in the delivery of training. The phrase Managed mLearning™ represents the evolution of mLearning that RPS has enabled through several key improvements to the distribution, management, tracking and security of mobile content …