learning in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment Currently 70% of learning in our institution is accomplished as e-learning. As for boring.anyone who suffered through boring lectures in school and workplace knows e-learning has no lock... [13 Dec 2007]
John Lamb's Week: Caught in the learning curve
Comment In contrast, the e-learning conference at the fleshpots of Claridges Hotel, London, on Wednesday and Thursday provides a more corporate view of training with case studies from BP, Ericsson, Shell and Xerox. [07 Jan 2001]
Text book learning: Can teachers cope with the IT burden?
Comment Eve Gillman, acting CEO, Technology Colleges Trust, said: "Many of the schemes for which the NOF money can be used are based on distance learning and online access. Forget borrowed laptops - teachers in the UK now have... [29 Apr 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: Executive e-learning, Sun's future and Sybase's AvantGo
Comment This experience may have been gained through a structured business environment with complimentary learning opportunities but these days it is more likely that such experience has been gained 'at the coalface'. [07 Mar 2003]
Superstar professor - the future of e-learning?
Comment Today's celebrities tend to come from the worlds of entertainment and sport but if online e-learning evolves in the way some IT companies are hoping then professors may well become the rock 'n' roll stars of the future. [09 May 2001]
Boardroom Despatches: E-learning - will its day ever come?
Comment In the first of his new series for silicon.com, Rene Carayol explains how businesses should now be viewing e-learning. The past couple of years have seen a number of e-learning ventures hit the rails. [12 Feb 2003]
Ebusiness Despatches: Leading and learning from failure
Comment Business failure there is seen as a necessary part of learning and subsequent success. The audience - a bunch of senior IT executives. I gave a talk about leadership versus management in UK Plc. It was fascinating, with... [25 Jul 2001]
Leader: Learning business lessons the hard way
Leader Whether there was a whole lot of learning going on at Comdex is arguable - staying focused on business issues and not just treating the get-together as a huge jolly may count but then that's hardly enlightened thinking... [21 Nov 2003]
Breaking China: ChinesePod takes on language learning
Comment There's a different culture of language learning here. We figured it was a smaller market than the English learning market. Language learning is about to change - at least that's what... [11 Jul 2006]
E-learning: satisfactory, but could do better
Comment At a recent workshop in Germany for the insurance sector, three quarters of all participants (mainly personnel managers) confessed they are simply not interested in e-learning. Nevertheless, these companies say they have... [26 Feb 2001]
Stop laughing and start learning from public sector outsourcing
Comment Public sector IT outsourcing projects usually get a bad press. When something goes wrong, the mistakes are often out in the open - usually by law - for all to see. So why is it that Alistair Maughan, a senior partner at law firm Shaw... [02 May 2003]
Learning business lessons from Celtic tigers
Comment 'The UK needs to learn from the Irish economy if it is to achieve comparable growth in the high-tech sector'. This statement underpins the latest Business Strategies report, launched on the eve of a speech by Chancellor Gordon Brown to... [04 Jul 2000]
Learning the lessons of WAP
Comment End users, whether businesses or individual consumers, are suspicious of over-zealous marketing. One example - WAP. Two years ago, the operators and infrastructure suppliers about to make it a reality were promising great things. [12 Oct 2000]
Devil's Advocate: Polish up your skills
Comment But, says Martin Brampton, children need to be provided with the generic learning and language skills needed to adapt to a fast-changing working life that now spans more than a generation. Beyond that, its most valuable... [09 Dec 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.07.05
Round-Up It seems even Microsoft is willing to ride the latest wave of Harry Potter-mania, with Kevin Schofield, an exec within the software giant, claiming that learning to be a techie can be just as exciting as... [22 Jul 2005]
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