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Sixth Survey of Learning-Industry Pay Launched

Stoke Prior (UK), October 2013 - Blue Eskimo, a specialist recruitment company in the learning industry, has just launched its annual work and salary survey. The survey, now in its sixth year, is the most comprehensive study of its kind and provides the learning industry with its sole dedicated benchmark for salary and work statistics. » MORE

Juniper Research

Mobile Devices to Be Worth 19 Billion USD by 2018

Hampshire (UK), October 2013 - New findings from leading hi-tech analysts Juniper Research has revealed that the retail revenue from smart wearable devices, including smart watches and glasses, will reach nineteen billion US dollars by 2018 compared with 1.4 billion USD this year. Revenues will be driven by high price points for these devices allied to their anticipated strong market demand. » MORE

Little's Britain

Adult skills study results to be revealed

Bob LittleLondon (UK), October 2013 - (by Bob Little) The 16th international conference on -˜Human Capital and Investments in Education' takes place on 10th October in the Congress Centre of Prague's University of Finance and Administration - and it's there that the results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will be revealed. PIAAC focuses on the skills people need for success in the information age. It looks at the skills people use in their jobs, including: reading; numeracy; team work; communication; presentation skills; information and technology skills. » MORE

Speexx White Paper

How Communication and Technology Impact Profitability

Armin HoppMunich (GER), September 2013 - Speexx, an award-winning provider of online corporate language training, has released a free white paper for HR and L&D professionals of global organisations. Entitled -˜Empowering Communication - What's in it for the Bottom Line?', the white paper examines current eLearning and talent-management trends and gives practical advice for reaping the full benefits offered by technology. » MORE

New Issue

RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal

Barcelona (E), August 2013 - The Universities and Knowledge Society Journal (RUSC) is a semiannual open-access e-journal jointly published by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Spain) and the University of New England (UNE, Australia) that appears in January and July. The current issue has a special section focusing on the outlook and challenges for education and technology in Mexico and Latin America. » MORE

Changing Values

Engagement Key to Success in Compliance eLearning

Warwickshire (UK), July 2013 - A major new study has revealed that over two thirds of the organisations queried fail to engage their employees with their compliance learning programmes despite improved engagement being an objective for 98% of participants. Compliance training's poor reputation was also cited by over half of respondents as negatively impacting the success of their programmes. » MORE

Better Integration

5 Ideas for Embedding Learning into the Workflow

Saarbruecken (GER), July 2013 - This year, the annual and independent Towards Maturity Benchmark highlighted that nine out of ten learning-and-development professionals recognize the need to better integrate learning and work. In their report IMC and Towards Maturity show - with the help of survey results - innovative methods, theories, and practical case studies how to support employees in their daily working processes. » MORE

eLearning Africa Report

OERs and MOOCs: Old Wine in New Skins?

Berlin (GER), July 2013 - Neil Butcher is Director at Neil Butcher and Associates and OER Strategist at OER Africa, an Initiative of the Southern African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE). As an expert in OERs, and believer in the power of MOOCs to change education for the better, he is nevertheless worried about the direction in which these open online resources are being taken. In the following, he outlines his fear that new technologies are simply - and unimaginatively - being used to replicate existing educational systems and gives his own vision of the revolutionary effect MOOCs and OERs could have on learning in the future. » MORE

Staff-generated Input

The Role of eLearning in Improving Healthcare Services

London (UK), June 2013 - Webanywhere has produced a white paper in response to the Francis Report, which highlights how eLearning can help meet the recommendations set out by Sir Robert Francis QC. The Francis Report was published in February to help the healthcare sector avoid the issues uncovered within Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. It cited failings in patient care and a system of secrecy, defensiveness, and lack of adequate training. Webanywhere, a provider of eLearning systems for businesses, developed the paper to show healthcare organisations how eLearning can help with the implementation of the Report's recommendations. » MORE

Little's Britain

Technology's effects on bedroom activities

London (UK), June 2013 - (by Bob Little) According to a survey of 1,000 commuters in London, carried out by Infosecurity Europe, 29% of people look at emails - on computers or smartphones - and catch up on work while they're in bed, especially if they can't sleep. Apparently, 15% of them do this at the same time as their partner is doing exactly the same thing. » MORE