Meeting the Training Needs of SMEs: is e-Learning a Solution?

Training is one of the basic means of human resources development in business organizations, aiming to motivate employees, to develop their potential and to help them perform better. Facing pressures from an increasingly competitive business environment, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are called upon to implement strategies that are enabled and supported by information technologies and e-business applications in order to compete with other organizations.
One of these applications is e-Learning, whose aim is to enable the continuous assimilation of knowledge and skills by managers and employees, and thus support organisational training and development efforts through the use of the Internet and Web technologies. Little is known however as to the level of awareness of e-Learning in SMEs and as to the actual role played by e-Learning with regard to these firms’ training needs. This observed the firms’ training process, identifying to what extent the SMEs know and use e-Learning, and to what extent e-Learning meets their training needs. >>>

Adult workers have a lot to learn online

Children are fantastic little learning machines. They are hardwired to play with ideas and absorb knowledge. Adults, alas, are not. That is why the challenge of adult education and lifelong learning is more difficult than childhood education. >>>

Giovani smanettoni crescono. Così.

Free elearning verso nuovi pubblici.

Lezioni di programmazione, corsi sulla privacy, tavole rotonde online. Cresce e si allarga anche ad un pubblico più adulto l'esperienza di Oilproject, prima accademia di free elearning italiana. >>>

Is a Blended Learning Approach Suitable for Mature, Part-time Finance Students?

The University of Winchester has introduced a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) based on the Moodle Course Management System (CMS).
Moodle supports a ‘social constructionist pedagogy’ where the style of learning is highly interactive and emphases that learners (and not just teachers) can organize and contribute to the educational experience in many ways. The various functional features of Moodle reflect its design philosophy which is based upon the belief that people learn best when they interact with the learning material, construct new material from their own perspective and interact with other students about the material.
A small investigation has been conducted which has looked at the learning needs of part-time, mature finance students at The University of Winchester to see whether a blended approach (using Moodle) would have benefited their studies. This paper attempts to outline how the course was designed and to do a preliminary analysis of the use of blended learning for part-time, mature finance students. >>>

Dove mancano dati arriva la Soa

Una ricerca Progress-Vanson Bourne su 500 decisori It rileva un flusso carente di informazioni di business. Si investe sulle architetture di servizi per rimediarvi. >>>