Describes a program for unemployed managers that used Action Learning principles. Concludes that the results of the course were impressive, as there was a 50 percent reemployment rate. (NJR)

Although corporate motives for training tend to be short-term, functional, and mission-oriented, more and more corporations and institutions of higher education are cooperating to offer employees classes carrying college credit. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the challenges, solutions, and compromises involved in creating computer-delivered training courseware for Apollo Travel Services, a company whose 50,000 agents must access a mainframe from many different computing configurations. Initial difficulties came in trying to manage random access memory and quicken response time, but the future…

Explains how this issue that includes papers from the 2001 Symposium on Online Learning (SOLE) in Malaysia was developed and describes the main activities of the symposium. Provides an overview of the 14 papers included in this issues, including academic papers and corporate papers. (LRW)

Discusses the term distributed education and its relationship to distance education. Topics include distributed training on corporate intranets; distributed expertise, which refers to the use of mediated communication for education and training by experts in different locations; and distributed, or situated, cognition, which would include…

Discusses changes in the delivery of education and training in light of businesses being driven by cost, quality, service, and speed. Examines the learning needs of employees and businesses; paradigm shifts caused by technology, particularly the Internet; knowledge management; performance support; and learning-oriented Web sites that link to…

The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of what e-Learning executives believe are the critical success factors for companies to successfully deliver training and education over the world-wide web. The study was a qualitative, multiple-case study design including in-depth, semi-structured interviews that incorporated verbal critical…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of approaches to outsourcing HRD in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: This paper employs semi-structured interviews and case studies. The research model was developed from a literature review. Findings: There are many problems associated with outsourcing any or all aspects of the HRD…

Starting from the CVTS-2 survey in which responses by Austrian and French employers revealed their very limited use of "non-school" types of training (on-the-job training, self-learning, job rotation, apprenticeship and quality circles, etc.), the author searches for the reasons for these two European exceptions. Although certain…

In its policy statement on a new Education Act for Great Britain, the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions (ATTI) asserts that the proposed act is insufficient to meet accelerating demands on the educational system, especially in further and higher education. These demands are linked to social pressures for more and better education,…