All Blog Posts Tagged 'training' (31)

Problem-free University Transfer to Continue Your Study Uninterruptedly

Sometimes, the more you study in the same university or college, the more fed up you get. Seeing the same faces and experiencing the same environment every day. Eventually, it just gets into you. Otherwise, you might already have an aim since high school to enter whichever university you want. Then you work towards your goal. Nevertheless, University Transfer is nothing like restarting the game of life.

Apart from all the fuss of getting your visa done, applying for a new passport,… Continue

Added by Garry Ben on July 10, 2009 at 4:27am — No Comments

Rely on Credible Education Consultancy for Studying Abroad

The Education Consultancy works as a partner with a small number of select clients in the education field to support optimal outcomes including but going beyond immediate projects. Offering Marketing Communication, Enrollment, and Revenue Solutions for:

• Higher Education

• Independent Secondary Schools

• Individual Families

The Education Consultancy with colleagues with a wide range of skill sets… Continue

Added by Garry Ben on July 10, 2009 at 4:26am — No Comments

Screen Recording in Computer Teaching and Training

In the production of multi-media courseware presentation, we often need to capture the computer screen actions of operating the application, such as tracking the movement of the mouse and the keystrokes from the keyboard, and so on. That is to make a multimedia animation presentation document from your onscreen activity. And they can be used for software training and self-learning. The research shows that screen recording applied to teaching and training receives a good… Continue

Added by Tim on July 10, 2009 at 2:52am — No Comments

The Truth about using Games as a Teaching Tool

Believe it or not, many instructors/managers do not see games as a serious teaching tool. It may be hard to admit, but, in some ways, they’re right! In most cases, their beliefs have been influenced by a variety of factors, the most common of which is their personal experience seeing how games are used in a classroom. To make matters worse, many instructors who use games are unknowingly reinforcing the negatives that so many have about using games.

In this article, I will show you… Continue

Added by John Dillon on July 6, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

To know what they know …. That is THE question! Using games to assess trainees:

Have you ever wondered how much of your training really “sticks”? Are you looking for ways to find out what your trainees really know? This lively, 30 minute webinar focuses on the power of games as a tool for formal and informal assessment. We’ll explore the challenges that we face when assessing adult learners and introduce you to tools to meet those challenges. You’ll learn how Audience Response devices can be used to gauge, in real time, the effectiveness of your presentation. Attend this… Continue

Added by John Dillon on May 29, 2009 at 11:20am — No Comments

Are Computer Games and Simulation Going to Revolutionize Our Educational Future - By Lance Winslow

By Lance Winslow

Is the video gaming entertainment industry evolving into a more serious version, or has it come to a fork in the road where one species splits off from another. I am speaking of where entertainment becomes "entercation" or "edutainment" and the technology is being used for training, fun, entertainment, and educational simulation. We all know that pilots train in simulators much of the time, and have seen computer… Continue

Added by Lance Winslow on May 27, 2009 at 2:09am — No Comments

Screencasts - Effective Technology Training in Enterprises

We had the rapid technology development of new mobile devices and platforms, virtualization, cloud computing, and more. But we also met the serious financial crisis in 2008. In enterprises, more and more people are upgrading their OA systems and products with new technologies. Nowadays high quality and low cost training of new technology is what enterprises looking for.

When an enterprise is going to adopt the new software product or a new system to provide them higher productivity… Continue

Added by Tim on February 11, 2009 at 5:48am — No Comments

3 Tips Help Online Training Far Away From Devils in 2009

We have all heard the claims that implementing eLearning and online training in corporation will significantly reduce the training costs and improve performance. But the fact is that eLearning projects rarely produce a significant Return On Investment (ROI).

Corporate University Xchange's Pillars of e-Learning Success indicated that nearly 75 percent of corporate learning professionals reducing education and training costs was their main driver for launching an e-learning… Continue

Added by William Peterson on January 13, 2009 at 3:59am — No Comments

21st Century Literacies and Schools of Education

This is a topic that has been on my mind for several years but after spending some time with a new teacher over the Christmas break has pushed me to the point that I need to put my thoughts somewhere even if no one reads it.

What are universities doing to make sure that their teacher candidates are prepared to use and teach their students to use technology? Apparently not much. Case in point: my nephew's wife has been teaching in California under a provisional/temporary teaching… Continue

Added by Lynne H on January 1, 2009 at 4:54pm — 7 Comments

Building 21st Century Skills

Today’s life and work environments require far more than thinking skills and content knowledge. The ability to navigate the complex life and work environments in the globally competitive information age requires students to pay rigorous attention to developing adequate life and career skills.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is pleased to offer Route 21, a one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on October 15, 2008 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Online Training Needs Assessments: How to Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly

For online training instructors, creating meaningful performance assessments for online training is a critical issue.

Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during the learning process through traditional summative evaluation. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it only considers final learning outcomes without considering the learning process of learners. Actually, learning performance can be tracked by related… Continue

Added by William Peterson on August 18, 2008 at 11:38pm — No Comments