Beyond blended instruction: learning in the 21st century
Piers Lea and Donald Clark on how our industry needs to be courageous in taking the next step and deft at encouraging those we work for to do the same. Our industry needs to be courageous in taking the...
View Article“New Kinds of Smart: Emerging thinking about what it is to be intelligent today”
Piers Lea reviews a new report analysing what it means to be “smart” Have you ever wondered about IQ and what it means? I don’t think anyone has ever suggested that a high IQ and success in the...
View ArticlePartnership by design
As learning initiatives grapple with ever more complex challenges, the supplier-buyer relationship needs to change. The role of e-learning is changing. And with this change of role, a number of...
View ArticleIPS case study, proving the blend works
You might think that ‘business impact’ studies on learning interventions would be two-a-penny. We have private and public sector organisations investing in training interventions like never before,...
View ArticleUnderstanding the culture of e-learning
Piers Lea, CEO of LINE, on the importance of seeing e-learning within a vision of learning which fits a company’s culture. It is becoming generally accepted that in order for an e-learning strategy to...
View ArticleMaking e-learning a viable business tool
Early adopters of e-learning faced many problems: poor uptake of courses, low completion rates, complaints about low levels of interactivity, difficulty of access to courses…While the situation has...
View ArticleDoom and gloom? How can we help?
Piers Lea, CEO of LINE Communications, gives a personal perspective on how the e-learning industry can respond to current economic gloom. It means working together, so even if you don’t read this whole...
View ArticleEvaluation: Take a strategic approach
Piers Lea explains why evaluation should be part of the strategy In an earlier article published on the LINE website and in E-learning Age Magazine, we issued a call to action for organisations to...
View ArticleComing of Age: LINE at 21
LINE is 21 this month. Piers Lea reviews 21 years at the helm. LINE’s business today is about helping clients find their feet in a world where clever use of technology and learning innovation is...
View ArticleMobile comes of age
Piers Lea, CEO of LINE Communications, gives the reasons why now is the moment for mobile learning and communications To say that mobile delivery for learning and communications is a hot talking point...
View ArticleMobile learning – the state of play
Piers Lea, CEO, discusses the current and 2012 landscape for mobile learning. It is nearly two years since I gave the opinion, on this blog, that it was time for organisations to embrace mobile...
View ArticleLearning architecture in the Business
A recent LINE survey of Learning and Development professionals showed that 52% were familiar with the concept of Learning Architectures. In addition, response to our articles and white papers on the...
View ArticlePiers Lea Chairs ELIG Marketplace group
I have been asked (and accepted!) to be the Chairman of the marketplace group for ELIG (the European Learning Industry Group). I have been able to accept this role partly because I am working with...
View ArticleELIG Results Story: Caterpillar
Here is a great ‘results’ story. This one coming from ELIG member: Deniz Saral. Lots more like this to come…. “On-line delivery of Caterpillar’s Sales Effectiveness Program (SEP) achieved an average...
View ArticleELIG Results Story: Ford
Here is another great ‘results’ story. This time it is about how Ford reduced delivery costs and increased performance in Ford of Europe by using the Ford Learning Centre. Lots more like this to come…....
View ArticleELIG Results Story: Speexx
Here is another great ELIG ‘results’ story. 7 million users, 1200 certified coaches. Increasing pass rates from below 50% to 90%- language learning the Speexx way. Speexx helps increase motivation and...
View Articlelearndirect: Transforming skills delivery
And let’s not forget learndirect who have delivered some great results using a full blend of techniques and technologies. Around 10,000 people log on and learn with learndirect every day. In numbers:...
View ArticleELIG Results Story: IKEA
The ELIG marketplace group is picking up an excellent range of results based stories from across our industry. The idea is to publish an initial ‘top ten’ that ELIG will use to get the message about...
View ArticleELIG Annual Conference 2012
It was an interesting two days at the European Learning Industry Group Conference (ELIG), which took place in Dublin on 1st and 2nd October. Just two points: What struck me was the huge diversity of...
View ArticleApples and pears? Deploying apps and responsive design within a mobile...
Over 76% of the 600 companies surveyed in 2011 by Towards Maturity planned to implement mobile learning in the next two years. The results of the recently released 2012 Towards Maturity Benchmark...
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