Learning professionals have conventionally been restricted to making money only when they are actually providing training. This comes from the traditional classroom training set-up where one learning professional trains users or managers in one location. There are ways to increase earning potential for learning professionals through both traditional systems and...

Medical students' learning assisted by augmented reality A team at the University of Otago has developed what is claimed to be a world-first augmented reality mobile application to assist in the training of medical students. The app enables students to scan the bar code on the package of a range...

As e-learning grows more popular as a training tool, it is important for training providers to realize that although the platform they are using to do the training has changed, the principles of good training have not.  For training to be good and useful, it needs scope. Rather than delivering...

Vigilance is required to minimise risk of IT security breaches. “Everyone is vulnerable,” said Jeff Birnbach, partner and managing director of Sylint Group Inc., a cyber security firm based in Sarasota, Florida.  Birnbach, along with John Stephens and Nora Wetzell, attorneys with Sedgewick LLC, and Michelle Worrall Tilton of Media...

There’s a lot of learning to be done online. Where once attending a conference used to mean nights away in a hotel and conference centre, you can now attend seminars online – called webinars – from your desk. There are a number of platforms to use for presenting webinars and...