| Open Access |
| Free Guide: Mobile Learning - Building It Right |
| Brighton (UK), April 2012 – Kineo is currently providing advice and information on mobile learning in a series of free guides on mobile learning in practice. Mobile learning has pushed beyond the "what if" hype to "what now" – how do we make this work for real? [more...] |
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| Free Guide |
| How Important Is Change Management? |
London (UK), February 2012 - The change-management specialist Maven has released their latest edition of the Quick Guide Series. Written by Maven CEO Melanie Franklin, a renowned consultant in business transformation, the guide is entitled 'How important is Change Management?' [more...] |
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| Up to Date |
| New Book on the Information Market |
Cologne/Düsseldorf (GER), July 2011 - A new standard work on the information market has now been published under the title "Information Markets: A Strategic Guideline for I-Commerce" and is available in German and English. [more...] |
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| Online Booklet |
| Practices that Sustain eLearning Training Solutions |
| Brisbane (AU), July 2011 - A new resource to help organisations incorporate technology as a key training tool has been released. Produced by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), "Practices that Sustain eLearning Training Solutions" is now available online. [more...] |
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| Business Book |
| Making the World Work Better |
Armonk, NY (USA), June 2011 - IBM marks its Centennial with the release of a new business book entitled "Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company". The book was written by award-winning journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O'Brien. [more...] |
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| Free Book |
| A Guide to Collaborative Learning |
London (UK), June 2011 – "The Little Book of the Future" is a free guide to the future of training and development. It provides a vision of the future of learning at work and practical ways for everyone to learn everything for free. [more...] |
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| Publication |
| Supporting Tutors of Adaptive eLearning |
Saarbrücken (GER), September 2010 – Over the last decade, the use of eLearning has become widespread. However, its further development and deployment faces a number of threats. Van Rosmalen’s publication "Facilitating the Design and Support of Adaptive eLearning: Models to Assist the Tutor" discusses two models that address these needs. [more...] |
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| Workplace |
| White Paper on Rules of Engagement |
Coventry (UK), July 2010 - Employee engagement in the UK remains low because employers are focusing on the wrong things, claims a white paper produced by the Training Foundation. It offers thought-provoking insights to employers that are worth considering in the light of their current engagement strategies. [more...] |
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| Market Test |
| New Happy Book Released as Beta |
| London (UK), July 2010 - The Happy Manifesto, the second book from training company Happy Ltd, has been released in an online beta version. The idea is that, as with software, the book be market tested before publication, with readers suggesting changes and even stories from their own experience. [more...] |
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| Instructional Design |
| Six Steps to Creating High-quality Video Training |
| Santa Rosa, CA (USA), June 2010 –Video is the fastest means currently available to create engaging online learning experiences, especially for the masses. With this in mind, in the following article, Jeremy Vest of Learning Solutions Magazine explains how to best use video as a rapid instructional design and development tool. He provides a step-by-step guide for creating great instructional video design and producing such experiences. [more...] |
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| Broad Horizon |
| Kineo Offers Shots of Theory |
| Brighton (UK), March 2010 – Kineo suggests that a little theory doesn’t hurt. To practice instructional design with intention, practitioners need to know what instructional strategies to use and why, in order to help maximize the learning. This means knowing a bit about learning theory and instructional-design theory. [more...] |
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| New Publication |
| Distance and eLearning in Transition |
Budapest (HU), October 2009 - EDEN Online has announced a new joint publication by ISTE and Wiley, "Distance and eLearning in Transition – Learning Innovation, Technology and Social Challenges". The book is a selection of the strongest EDEN conference papers from the past few years, revisiting research, innovation, and professional practice in distance and eLearning. [more...] |
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| Market Trends |
| Open Source Continues to Change the Business World |
Brighton (UK), July 2009 - Is the business model of the future one where the customer no longer pays? Kineo explores the ideas of author Chris Anderson's book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and its implications for eLearning. Anderson argues that people are generally suspicious of 'free' and that, generally, they have been right to think this way. Most existing business models have tended to demand that somewhere along the line, somebody has to pay. But this, he says, is set to change. Andersen argues that in the digital world, everybody else can be subsidized by only a very few paying customers. [more...] |
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| Email Charter |
| You’ve Got Mail…on Average 2,769 Emails in Your Inbox |
| London (UK), January 2009 - New research indicates that a lack of email protocol fuels employee email stress and wastes up to one hour per day. Expert Messaging reacted to this with an Email Charter that serves as a useful tool to professionalize online communication. [more...] |
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