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Ensuring the Success of Learning Technology Deployments: A Closer Look at Standards
Discouraged by the difficulty of sharing distance learning across various learning management systems, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) formed the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) specification group.
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How Can the Classroom Save Your E-Learning Programs?
As you could see from reading the premier issue of this publication, e-learning is hot. Everyone’s looking to it as the next great training frontier, with good reason. Unlike other training technologies and methodologies that have entered the fray over th
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Sorting Through Solutions
If you listen to the social pundits, we live in a time of excess. Fast food, fast cars, get-rich-quick schemes, instant gratification that takes too long. It’s a go-go world full of a dizzying array of options, choices, systems and solutions.
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J. C. Penney: Fashioning Workforce Development
“In every man’s life, there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark, [which] if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires,” said James Cash Penney, found
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Xcel Energy Consolidates Learning for Business Results
Xcel Energy is the nation’s fourth largest combined utility, created by the merger of Minneapolis-based Northern States Power Co. and Denver-based New Century Energies. The electricity and national gas company has operations in 12 Western and Midwestern s
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E-Learning Drives Growth at First Data
Corporations attempting to implement aggressive revenue growth goals find it necessary to work powerfully from within to implement the changes that will bring these goals to reality. Creating change, managing change, directing change—these are the actions
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Quenching the Thirst for Learning at Crown Cork & Seal
Crown Cork & Seal Company Inc., which makes one of every five beverage cans used in the world and one of every three food cans used in North American and Europe, invests heavily in employee training in order to ensure its high-quality manufact
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BellSouth Saves with LMS and Online Learning
Companies that operate in regulated industries, like BellSouth, must negotiate many complex rules and guidelines. Over the years, BellSouth has expanded into unregulated businesses such as Internet solutions and a yellow pages subsidiary. But its core com












