Momenta Learning No. 77 News on Elearning and Online Learning

Welcome to the No. 77 Issue of Momenta Learning News on Elearning and Online Learning

Are You Putting Learning Content in the Cloud? What is the shelf life for e-learning? Years, months? If learning leaders could make updates more easily - in real time, for example - what would be the optimum refresh rate? Typically, the shelf life of e-learning is all about the shelf life of the content itself.

How Does E-Commerce Integrate With Online Training? How Does E-Commerce Integrate With Online Training? Online training is beneficial when learners are dispersed geographically or otherwise cannot easily attend classes in person. By having round-the-clock access to a learning management system, they can fit their training around their other work activities, and can repeat modules as many times as they wish to consolidate their understanding.

Global Academy Online - A Growing Force in Higher Education Global Academy Online created the patent pending Gauntlet as the Blueprint for new university success. The Firm is one of an elite handful that offers a blueprint for developing total online accredited university colleges. It raises up new schools from the idea stage to approved, accredited and recognized college or university level status.

Customer is king in online course - WexfordPeople.ie Seeing the customer as king is the basis of a new free online customer care course recently launched by Wexford Chamber of Commerce, Allied Training and dulann.com. The brainchild of Wexford eLearning company dulann.com, the course aims to help businesses to prevent profit loss due to poor customer services.

Student data privacy: Moving from fear to responsible use In the last two years, there has been a perfect storm on the topic of student data privacy. Brenda Leong writes that this data is ever more critical today, and if we properly use it then having the discussion about what educational challenges need to be tackled first, and how, becomes more manageable.

5 Things to Know About Financial Aid in Online Degree Programs The financial aid application process is largely the same for both online and traditional students, but there are certain things online learners should keep in mind, experts say. A college or graduate school education can be costly for on-campus and online students alike, but there are ways to ease the burden of a hefty price tag.

The second renaissance will be digitised - FT.com With no teachers, timetables, or exams, Ecole 42 is a strange kind of educational institution, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Students shuffle into this tech-enabled school whenever they want and work as hard as they need. Is this the

e-Less Learning is the New Corporate Training Methodology Set to Rival e-Learning Press Release Leading training company launches new approach after survey of 3,000 learners shows overwhelming preference for face-to-face training. e-Less Learning is a cost effective, scalable 'forever resource' that every HR department should know about.

Xerox Tech Adds Analytics to Video Capture -- THE Journal Video Xerox researchers in India have developed technology that's able to analyze the contents of video and index it in a way that enables students to go immediately to the specific part of the recording they need for their learning. An Indian company that serves multiple universities has already licensed the technology for use in its video-based learning platform.

The importance of cognitive skills to L&D Gary Klein is a research psychologist who pioneered naturalistic decision making, and is the author of books such as Seeing What Others Don't and The Power of Intuition. L&D Professional interviewed the internationally respected decision making expert for his insights. LDP: What's the significance of decision-making to employee learning and development?