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Investment in learning and development has not escaped the cuts in budget that many organisations have experienced during these difficult trading times.

Through our work with the corporate, defence and public sectors we have developed a proven method to help you solve this problem. By using learning innovation and new technology, we’ll help you deliver ‘more for less’.

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John Helmer reviews the state of the technology supported learning market in reaction to the British Computer Society’s annual league table.

I was surprised, recently, to hear one of LINE’s clients tell me that the company isn’t seen, within his organisation at least, as an e-learning supplier. This is probably because LINE’s initial involvement with this particular client had been as part of a high-level consultancy effort looking at people development challenges in a holistic, strategic way – taking a helicopter view that was firmly delivery-method-agnostic.

His comment undoubtedly reflects the highly varied nature of LINE’s work, and the breadth of expertise and resources the company can deploy. Nevertheless, it is highly gratifying for LINE to be officially recognised, for the second consecutive year, as the UK market leader in bespoke e-learning content development by the BCS.

As well as consolidating LINE’s market leadership in this area, however, the BCS e-learning top tables, published in IT Training Magazine, also have interesting things to tell us about the state of the industry in general.
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Nick Barker, Project Manager, at LINE gives his personal slant on the launch of an innovative iPad learning programme for the Royal Artillery.

I’d just delivered 20 iPads to the Royal School of Artillery at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire. On each of these was an app which LINE had jointly developed with Major Rich Gill of the Army’s Training Development Branch.

I felt a double helping of anticipation that morning. First there was the fact that a group of soldiers were about to use our iPad version of their Fire Control Orders training for the first time as part of user trials – What would they think? Would they be engaged with it? Would they really love it? Or would they want to stick it up against a wall and fire a salvo from a 105mm Light Gun through its beautiful 9.7 inch touch screen?
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A review by Ed Lines

For a book dedicated to the promotion of audience engagement and highly immersive scenarios, it is strange that A Guide to Authentic e-Learning is about as exciting as a party political broadcast. And like a lot of politicians, this book makes bold promises based on an insignificant amount of evidence.

The Guide is certainly not thin on examples. In fact, far from it; every page is stuffed full of references old and new. Scholarly theories, backed up by other scholarly theories. But the whole way through the book, the real results and success stories that I most craved to see were sadly lacking.
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A review by Tom Harrison.

The Future of Work, sequel to The History of Work by the same author, former FT journalist Richard Donkin, is about the changing face of work in the 21st century.

Donkin believes we are currently undergoing a revolution in the pattern of work every bit as profound as the changes brought by the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. He puts this down to a number of factors including globalisation, demographics, commoditisation, women’s role in the workplace and, perhaps most importantly, the advent of computer technologies. According to Donkin, the combination of these influences will soon see our current patterns of working become largely untenable.

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My blog post on the Learning and Skills Group conference seems to have caused something of a furore, with a lot of debate both online and particularly offline – so much so that I feel it is worth devoting a little more time and space to my reasons for saying what I did, and to share some of the reflections I have had on the subject since.
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Harriet Croxton reports from the LINE Zurich Forum event. European business leaders debate the barriers and enablers to mobile and multiplatform learning.

Earlier this month senior learning and development professionals from a number of major Swiss global corporations and national organisations met together at the LINE Zurich Forum. The Forum combines a fine lunch, thought-provoking presentations and roundtable discussions on burning issues for the global learning and development profession.
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What have Star Wars, the BBC and a seminal work of comparative mythology got to do with scenario-based learning? Steve Ash describes the genesis of DCF, LINE’s new solution to the problem of creating hi-end, immersive learning at scale.

Story-based learning is a proven and powerful way to transfer knowledge, skills and behaviours. Generation Y is not alone in preferring this type of immersive learning: it has wide appeal across all age groups. In the past, scenario-based online learning has been expensive and time consuming to create, and difficult to design and develop in a scalable manner. The LINE Dynamic Content Framework (DCF) addresses these challenges, offering an innovative and cost effective approach to scenario-based learning. Read more…

If you are responsible for implementing learning technologies in your workplace and are under pressure to accelerate their impact, then we invite you to get involved in the 4th Towards Maturity Learning Technology Benchmark.

The Towards Maturity benchmark survey is now considered the most comprehensive, independent and authoritative review on the use of Learning Technologies in the workplace in the UK. At LINE we are great supporters of this research and we would like to recommend that you take part in their 2010 benchmark.
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John Helmer reports on LINE’s contribution to the second annual Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) Training Transformation Symposium

A great deal of interest has been generated within the defence sector by the UK Army’s recent unveiling of a LINE-developed learning app for iPad (see British Army takes the lead with new application for Apple iPad). A recent defence conference provided an opportunity for LINE, together with two members of the Royal Artillery Training Development Team who commissioned the piece, to show more of this innovative learning programme – and to place it within the context of LINE’s wider work with Defence colleges in training transformation.
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