Posted by Peter Hilliard in Learning technologies on Wed, 08/03/2011

The appetite for e-learning is growing on a global scale. Between now and 2015 revenue for the industry will grow by 9.2% up to a value of $49.9bn, which is around £30.4bn, and, according to research from Ambient Insight, with North America and Asia leading the global charge. No great surprise here.

Fifteeen years ago, for example, e-learning was just one step above reading a training programme script from a piece of paper, but today things are very different.

 Source: James McLuckie http://www.trainingzone.co.uk

M-learning is one of the most keenly discussed topics in learning and development at the moment. However, while most of the conversation centres on delivering content to learners, what about the advantages of using smart apps to help us as we go about our business as trainers?

Below is a list of ten smart apps that could make the life of a learning and development professional that bit easier. It’s worth bearing in mind that if the application you are interested in is not available for your particular phone, you should have a search around the relevant app stores. In many cases, you should find an equivialent tool.

Source - B2B Marketing - http://bit.ly/l9zJNq

Are your sales and marketing organisations perfectly aligned or poles apart? The truth is, very few companies see the two as collaborative functions. Some have business processes that are very salesdriven, whereas marketing is the dominant force in others. With no clear universal definition of what marketing and selling involve, it’s often hard to know where one role ends and the other begins.