As Director – Sales at Ideaon and over 20 years’ experience, I can honestly say Ithought Ihad heard it all, until today, while making my morning calls I spoke with an instructor that said “Patti, why would I want to outsource my own job?” I was a bit overtaken byher question. Of courseI reassured her crossing the bridge from ILT to e-Learning would not outsource her job, but make her more of an asset and help her company ret ...

Pharmaceutical e-Learning – a 360 Degree help from IDEAON Regulatory and Compliance Training We understand the need for regulatory and compliance standards. Incremental learning and training employees so that they adhere to the standards prescribed is critical. Regulatory standards keep changing frequently and keeping your employees updated on them can be challenging in an ILT format. However, adopting eLearning can make it ea ...

I have been asked a half-dozen times about my thoughts on Social Learning within corporations. At work we do use social tools such as Skype, Yahoo Messenger and YouTube for learning purposes. When I ask about social learning in the work place, I normally get blank stares from potential clients, “Do you mean I should allow my employees play on Facebook at work?” This makes me wonder whether everyone is classifying social learn ...

I’ve been thinking for a while now to start a blog for Ideaon on WordPress, and I finally manged to start one today. Ideaon is one of these elearning companies that’s been around for a while and excelling in what they do best. In the days to come, I hope to highlight latest trends in the e-learning industry…

E-learning has come a long way since alternative means to move away from traditional learning were much sought after. Today, a majority of the youth population lives in the virtual world and are busy managing wikis, blogs, social networking presence in sites like Facebook, Digg, MySpace, Twitter, etc. Virtual life has indeed taken an  imperative position – thanks to iPhones, iPADs, 4Gs and what not! There cannot be a better oppor ...

Has MLearning come of age? What’s common between Apple’s IPad, Samsung’s Galaxy, HTC’s Flyer, Motorola’s Xoom, Dell’s Streak and Blackberry’s Playbook? Well, all are tablets of their brands respectively and this list is not exhaustive. It is estimated that about 70% of the world’s population have mobile phones and that equates to about 5 billion mobile connection subscriptions of a world with a 6.8 billion populat ...

It is the age old question – Why E-learning is unable to match traditional classroom experience? There is no doubt that humans like the touch-n-feel factor (courtesy: their five senses) and that is the way it was intended from the beginning of the world. E-learning gives the user a more virtual (kinda Artificial Intelligence Feel) compared to the humanistic classroom approach. Traditional classrooms gives you more room to interac ...

Recently, Dimension Data successfully set up two E-Learning centres, at Kwapata High School and Nyonithwele High School, for the benefit of high school learners and teachers in Dambuza in South Africa. The main aim was to help students gain access to premium technology applications to support the school curriculum and to demonstrate the power of Information and Communication Technologies to cater to as many learners as possible. On ...

So, here you are. Entrusted with the job of creating custom training courses for the various departments in your organization. You have just graduated from the role of HR and have been assigned this complex task of educating the masses. Don’t know where to turn?Or whom to ask? Or what your first steps are? You are not alone. In the process of talking to hundreds of managers in the same scenario, we have come up with basic nugget ...

Build in-house or outsource an e-Learning Course creation? Tempted? Confused? Have the need but not taking the step? The corporate reality is that there is always more work at the end at the resources available. And most companies use external help from eLearning providers, consultants, system integrators and others to accomplish projects.  But does it make business sense? And if the work needs to get accomplished how do you ...