KINEO NEWSLETTER
Issue 92 – May 2013

Contents this month:

1. Free Guide: Blended Learning Today - new ways, new opportunities
2. Market update: Corporate learning - what crisis? Oh, that one...
3. Kineo insights: Launching the 2014 insights report and calling for input
4. Totara update: 2.4 is released, join the user group session!
5. Responsive Elearning Design with HTML 5: Join us for live webinar discussion
6. Top tip: Design thinking - you know you should
7. Upcoming events: eLearning Network, ASTD ICE, LT Summer Forum, eLearning Africa, Totara User Group and many more
8. Show review: CIPD HRD London
9. Now recruiting: become a Kineo person!

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Global leaders in innovative learning technologies and solutions – Kineo, is honoured to be the recipient of two coveted 2013 LearnX Impact Awards and a finalist in five categories.

Kineo’s unique Adapt Framework has won the highest honour, the Platinum Award for Best Learning Design Technology while the Nursing ePortfolio project received a Gold Award for Best Social Learning Platform.

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Last month the new look City & Guilds for business team, including Kineo, took part in the CIPD’s annual HRD event in London.

HRD is the event in CIPDs calendar that focuses specifically on the learning and development aspect of HR. It combines a conference and exhibition and also marks the release of their annual learning and talent development research report.

2013 was the second year that City & Guilds have attended the show, and the first since Kineo joined the group.  The show was the perfect platform for the Group to showcase a new complete workplace learning offering, and it was interesting to see the differences in the CIPDs research compared to that of our own and what we are seeing in the learning technologies side of the L&D industry.

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Design Thinking is a bit of a trendy term these days.  It’s what they do at Toyota when designing a new high-end car (and hopefully not recalling it three years later). It’s what they do at IDEO when designing a fancy new product.  What is it and how can we apply it to learning design? Because really, design is design no matter what you’re doing.

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This month we look at a thought provoking article on Making Corporate Learning Work by Shlomo Ben-Hur and Nik Kinley in which they pose a number of difficult questions for those responsible for corporate learning. They question why the satisfaction of business leaders with their learning functions has remained as low as 20% for over 10 years; and why such leaders believe half of their spending on learning may be wasted.  

None of us in the learning business want to believe that half of our efforts are going to waste – so you can imagine why this article is getting a lot of interest. We highlight the key points below.

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Kineo, now part of the City & Guilds Group, and e.learning age magazine will continue their joint research into workplace learning: this time on a global scale. The first annual Insights Report was launched in 2012 at the E-Learning Awards and this year’s research will be made available for the 2013 E-Learning Awards gala ceremony.

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Kineo, now part of the City & Guilds Group, will reveal how it is working with clients to effectively engage learners at this week’s eLearning Network event. The one day conference, being held in London on Friday 17 May, will explore ‘Marketing in elearning’.

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