According to Peter Berking of the ADL Co-Lab (who authored an article in the Fall issue of Government Elearning!), "Authoring tools are designed for particular styles of learning, delivery platforms, file formats, e-learning standards and production workflows. If your organization chooses a tool or set of tools that is not optimized for your needs, you could waste a lot of time and money creating e-learning that does not function correctly within your training infrastructure or is instructionally ineffective."

Students Look to Electronics
Based on recent trends among high school and college students, mobile technology - e-readers and smartphones to access electronic textbooks and other course materials - is growing...

Villanova Offers Security Training
Villanova University has launched a new program, the Master Certificate in Information Security Management-Government...

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Performance Management in Spotlight
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget is developing a new federal performance management framework that will incorporate elements from other initiatives, including the Bush administration's Performance Assessment Rating Tool and the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act...

New Institute, New Model
Blackboard Inc. has helped establish a new institute to gather and share practice-driven guidance for education teachers...

WEB 2.0: Virtual Enviroment for Online Meetings
Forterra's On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (O.L.I.V.E.) enterprise virtual world product is ideal for collaborative meetings, training/learning, events, and other specialized applications...

TOOLS: Trainer1 Offers Social Enviroment Learning Connector
The latest version of Trainer1's CSL delivery tool has the ability to link social networking learning patterns with formalized learning repositories...

TOOLS: Learning and Mastering ToolBook 10 Now Available
Platte Canyon has released "Learning & Mastering ToolBook 10."...

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