This isn’t a technology problem, and in fact most Corporate learning needs actually requires group learning, soft skills and behavioural practice, and a host of other ‘rehearsal’ issues that are actually best done with groups of people interacting and learning from each other and a minimal touch from a learning facilitator. There’s no evidence this is done better with e-learning than with live groups – the issue is Corporates increasingly don’t want to spend money getting people together, and can be seduced by video courses or anything else that suggests ‘content’ can be poured into people quickly. Few Corporate training programmes really need this knowledge transfer – its skills application and behavioural change they need. The research on Rich Environments for Active Learning work for example essentially takes what works really well in group learning and applies it to e-learning.

The issue is we need to improve the capability of those designing and leading Corporate training – they can then embrace the available options that technology can provide. Again good research suggests that that the time spent in any kind of off-the-job training opportunity is less impactful in a corporate setting than what happens before and after that training intevention.

Now if we look at performance support and mobile learning then that’s a whole new area that technology can grab for itself …

As for other skills and knowledge, the more elearning the better, just need the light to go from dim to bright!

Evan

Maybe you should forward the blog article over to them. : )

Seriously, I see it all the time and its a shame. Once you get into it and realize the issues, problems, etc. is just cascades and the people who lose it – really are the employees (or customers if they enable that route).

Thank u,

Craig

Its a wonderful review. Even I liked gamelearn they seem pretty interesting. Also I was wondering about this new company Piron Corporation. They had this very cute little USB business card which was a very interesting concept and i guess they are into medical learning.