10 14
Learning Technologiest Main Feature
new wave Riding the
With mobile learning becoming the most recent trend to sweep across L&D, Rob Buckley asks if new learning technologies genuinely offer a different and possibly better way of learning than before?
learningmagazine.co.uk E
veryone in learning and development wants to find the best way of training people in their organisations. The advent of the PC and the Internet has meant that training
has changed over the last few decades and there are now many new tools trainers can use. The latest of these are mobile devices, such as smartphones and iPads, as well as social media, which allows people to learn from and communicate with others in the same
organisation or around the world. With pressure on budgets combining with the high cost of transport and the difficulties of logistics, these tools also present a way of saving money on classroom learning while providing potentially more opportunities for learning overall. But new doesn’t necessarily mean better. So are these new tools a bandwagon that L&D is jumping on to its detriment? “The problem with any new technological breakthrough is that it’s unproven,” says Robin Hoyle, head of learning at Infinity Learning. “It’s cool, it’s happening, it’s zeitgeisty and there’s a rush to use it. And what’s likely to happen is that it’s
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68