Paris (F), January 2018 - A big hello and "Happy New Year" to all the Checkpoint readers across Europe and the world.

Introducing Learning Technologies France: an 18 year old show that is brand new

This is our first ever special edition in the great media resource that is CHECK.point eLearning. I am the founder of eLearnExpo series of events (Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Moscow and Hong Kong), the main one being Paris started in 2001. In 2006 the French event became I-Learning forum and went from strength to strength to become the leading enterprise eLearning show in the Francophone world.  » MORE

London (UK), January 2018 - (By Corentin Sannie, Learning Expert @ 360Learning) A learning organization, a structure capable of naturally integrating and seamlessly sharing knowledge, is an increasingly popular concept in the training world. They are often considered as an unattainable ideal rather than a goal for companies to obtain. However, this is a misconception! Just three steps need to be taken to create a learning organization: decentralizing content creation, focusing on social interactions and continuous evaluation.  » MORE

Cirencester (UK), January 2018 - How does your experience of digital learning compare with others? Which technologies are really working in L&D and which are just hype or wishful thinking? In this age of 'fake news' David Wilson, CEO of Europe’s #1 HR and learning analyst, Fosway Group, explores the truth about digital learning in 2018.  » MORE

Paris (F), January 2018 - (By Riadh Lebib, Research and Development Manager at SBT Human(s) Matter) As an expert in Neuropsychology (Ph.D.) and CBT (graduated), he is interested in rational and irrational human behaviors to study their impact on decision making, in calm or stressful situations. Understanding the neural underpinnings and cerebral mechanisms that underlie these cognitive operations is central to his work to provide innovative solutions for professionals (training, assessment, consulting), based on information processing, emotional valence, and reasoning processes occurring within the brain. » MORE

San Francisco, (USA), January 2018 – David Grebow’s presentation, based on his latest bestselling book "Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy," will be featured at the iLearning Forum conference January 23,2018.  David Grebow has more 25 years of experience in management consulting and corporate education. His current focus is on what companies must do to adapt to and succeed in the knowledge economy. His groundbreaking research examines companies that are succeeding by replacing old management and learning practices, developed during the previous industrial economy, with a new, more effective approach better suited for today’s global business environment. » MORE

Paris (F), January 2018 - (By Sally-Ann Moore, Founder of iLearning Forum and Conference Director of Learning Technologies France) While preparing the Learning Technologies France 2018 conference programme, I have been doing research and reading, and in particular looking at L&D trends, Talent Management and Human capital management. I unearthed a real shock and a paradox about the value of people to organizations. » MORE

New York, NY (USA), January 2018 - (By David Guralnick, Ph.D.) Imagine, if you will, that it’s the not-so-distant future.  I’m a new salesperson in a retail store (in this projected future, we still have retail stores and they still have human salespeople). On my first day, I need some training before I’m ready to work with customers.  So I go to the store where I’ve been hired, go into a back office, close the door, and start my simulation training. » MORE

Paris (F), January 2018 - (By Alexandre Pachulski, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder Talentsoft) The digital revolution will eliminate 50% of today’s jobs over the next 10 years. Who would have thought just a few years ago that we would be recruiting growth hackers, data scientists and full stack developers! Artificial intelligence is slowly transforming the world we live in and the way we work. So, how do we face robots and coding experts? We train, train, and train some more. » MORE

Windsor (UK), January 2018 - (By Craig Weiss, CEO and Lead Analyst of The Craig Weiss Group) It’s dead.  No, wait, it’s dying.  No, the articles say that it is dead. I’m not referring to your favorite HRIS, rather the LMS. The posts on the net continue to tell me that the LMS and thus its market is dead.  Which is ironic when you consider that more companies are coming into the space, then leaving. That the learning system space now exceeds 1,300 on the global scale. And that most them, the overwhelmingly large chunk are LMSs. » MORE

Munich (GER), December 2017 - The TÜV SÜD Academy’s "Digital Transformation" project was launched about a year ago. Its task is transforming about 10,000 face-to-face seminars with 120,000 participants annually into digital and partially digital format and enriching them with digital materials. “We are tackling the topic of digitalization systematically and holistically, i.e. it affects all of the Academy’s organizational units," explains Thomas Seidel, Chief Digital Officer at TÜV SÜD Academy, Munich.  » MORE

Cologne (GER), December 2017 - The REWE Group’s decision to introduce a performance support system was made back in 2014. The vision was grand: Direct workplace help would not only be created for individual software launches, but for all applications. With more than 500 IT applications, this not only meant an immense effort in regard to content creation, but also a change in learning culture. Mareike Heidemann-Jarosch of REWE Systems, the REWE Group’s IT subsidiary, remembers, "When it was introduced, workplace learning did not yet command the same importance as formal measures." » MORE

Bonn (GER), December 2017 - Thorsten Hölzer is a psychologist who specializes in media and organizational psychology, and is a lifelong learner in the fields of pedagogy and learning technology. As a technical-concept specialist at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), a German-government-owned company that oversees the country’s international cooperation efforts, he has been working at the organization’s in-house academy for over a decade in the qualification of administrators and technical specialists being sent abroad. His subject area at the LEARNTEC Convention is formal and informal learning. » MORE

Berlin / Saarbrücken (GER), December 2017 - LISA, short for Learning Analytics for Sensor-Based Adaptive Learning, is a project whose focus is delivering learning analytics for the benefit of the individual learner, not - as in previous approaches - for the educational organisation. The idea is that when individuals can see the role of their own behaviour plays in the learning process and receive personalized recommendations about it, they will be in a position to organize their personal learning processes better and improve their success.  » MORE

Stuttgart (GER), December 2017 - Wissen erLEBEN ("Experience Knowledge") is Allianz Life Insurance’s slogan for the new form of learning and information search the company has developed in cooperation with the "inside Business Group". It is addressed toward several thousand Allianz internal staff members and field representatives, as well as sales partners and banks. The project offers them the opportunity to tap into available expertise that is necessary for successful, demand-oriented customer consultation independently, efficiently, and sustainably.  » MORE

Berlin, Dezember 2017 - Bis Montag, den 04. Dezember 2017 um 20 Uhr können Sie sich noch am Kundenvotum für den deutschsprachigen eLearning-Markt beteiligen. Die Organisatoren geben - auf vielfachen Wunsch - allen Verspäteten eine letzte Gelegenheit die Online-Befragung zur Zufriedenheit mit ihren eLearning-Projekten noch auszufüllen. Nehmen Sie sich 15 Minuten Zeit und bewerten Sie jetzt anhand eines ausgefeilten und erprobten Fragenkatalogs Ihren eLearning-Dienstleister! Die neunte Auflage des eLearningCHECK stellt Fragebögen in den Kategorien Beratung, Mobile Learning, Learning-Management-Systeme, Autorentools, Individuelle Content-Produktion und Standard-Content zur Verfügung. Küren Sie mit Ihrem Votum die "Anbieter des Jahres 2018" und gewinnen Sie nebenbei ein LEARNTEC-Kongresstagesticket! » MEHR

Aachen, Dezember 2017 - Mobile Learning ist weiter auf dem Vormarsch und etabliert sich auch in der betrieblichen Bildung immer mehr. Doch die Erstellung didaktisch wertvoller und mobil lauffähiger Lernmedien stellt für viele Unternehmen eine echte Herausforderung dar: Denn benötigt werden Konzepte für die optimale Darstellung und Steuerung der Inhalte für verschiedenste Endgeräte, ohne Einbußen in der Didaktik. Mit ihrem ausgezeichneten Online-Autorensystem, dem eAuthor 4.0, bietet die inside Unternehmensgruppe ein effizientes Werkzeug, mit dem Autoren von Lernmedien problemlos ihre Mobile Learning-Lösungen realisieren können – ohne Programmierkenntnisse und didaktisch erstklassig.  » MEHR

Berlin, November 2017 - "Der Kunde ist König", lautet eine alte Unternehmerweisheit. Glaubt man Marketingexperten, kostet ein Neukunde dreimal so viel wie ein wiederkehrender Kunde. Auch bauen viele Unternehmen ihren Erfolg in erster Linie auf der Treue ihrer Stammkunden auf. Hohe Kundenzufriedenheit und eine schnelle Reaktion auf Kundenanforderungen sind daher für einen Großteil der Unternehmen überlebenswichtig. Der eLearningCHECK hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die Kundenzufriedenheit der deutschsprachigen eLearning-Branche transparent zu machen. Hierbei schlagen die Kundenerfahrungen mit Produktqualität, der Einhaltung von Zeitplänen, der Budgettreue, mit dem Support, dem Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis und manches mehr zu Buche. » MEHR

Aachen, November 2017 - "Wissen erLEBEN" – so lautet das Motto der Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG für die neue Form des Lernens und Nachschlagens, die das Unternehmen gemeinsam mit der inside Unternehmensgruppe realisiert hat. Es richtet sich an mehrere 1.000 Allianz Mitarbeiter im Innen- und Außendienst, Vertriebspartner und Banken und bietet ihnen die Möglichkeit, Fachwissen, das für die erfolgreiche bedarfsorientierte Beratung von Kunden benötigt wird, selbstständig, effizient und nachhaltig zu erschließen.  » MEHR