Top 5 Questions to ask BEFORE you hire your training consultant

As a training manager (or a project manager in charge of the training), you will be faced with the prospect of hiring an internal team, hiring a consulting group, or a mix of both.

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BBC applets for learning

The BBC has some interesting online educational material, of which the following is a sample. Pretty engaging, even for an 8 year old.

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Technology and Higher Ed–Educause survey

Just how wired are our colleges and universities?  Educause, a non-profit whose mission states that they are transforming higher ed through IT, was reported in InsideHigherEd as having released a survey/report about the use of IT in colleges and universities.
A brief summery goes like this:

Use of open source: 32% (2005) –> 47% (2006) –> 51% [...]

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Website to watch: Knetwit

Knetwit (an amalgam of KNowledge, NETwork and profIT), touts itself as a 2.0 community of like-minded individuals whose goal is to take, share and profit from attending class. Yes, attend your class (which you paid for–someone did, at least), write your notes, upload and rake in the profits.

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