e-Learning, distance learning, mobile learning, serious games

Cegos in the press

News about different distance learning activities as reported in the media and specialised HR and Training & Development portals.

The close relationship between economic context and developments in training has attracted the attention of popular business publications. This is seen in the latest articles published in La Tribune, El Mundo, Courrier International...

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - March 2010
How can we get line managers more involved in training, asks Francis Marshall.

Serious Game : no laughing matter

  Courrier International - Erick Haehnsen - March 2010
A resource for almost all international companies, "serious games" are in the process of becoming the favoured learning tool for generation Y. The generation that was bom at the same time as the computer. But beware: this is serious stuff.

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - February 2010
Francis Marshall questions whether now is the right time for collaborative learning.

Jedes zweite Unternehmen setzt auf e-Learning

www.prcenter.de – 27th January 2010
Cegos Deutschland präsentiert internationale Studie zu Lernformen und –trends. Blended Learning gilt als besonders effektiv…

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - January 2010
Francis Marshall recommends going experiential with sales training.

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - December 2009
Diagnostics, the new learner generation and the line manager will all be the focus of attention in 2010, predicts Francis Marshall.

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - November 2009
Francis Marshall questions whether we are pushing our own boundaries.

Emerging Trends in Learning and Development

Training Zone - Francis Marshall - October-November 2009

  • 1st column :
    Technology populism, today’s younger generation of employees, and an increasingly mobile and connected workforce are driving the rise of technology use for learning in the workplace.
    But with so many new learning mediums available, choosing the most appropriate tools can be a daunting task. In the first of a series of three columns I will be looking at the rise of technology, the key trends emerging in L&D, and how to set about integrating new mediums within your L&D strategy.
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  • 2nd column : The Challenge of Implementation
    In my first article, I provided an overview of some of the emerging trends in L&D today and the proliferation of communications mediums on which training is being delivered (Facebook, YouTube etc).
    This next article will look at some of these trends and communications vehicles in more detail and ask the vital question as to how more informal training can effectively be implemented in the workplace.
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  • 3rd column : Shibuya and the future of collaborative learning
    Following on from my two recent columns on emerging trends in L&D, this article looks at the Shibuya University Network – one of the most innovative forms of informal learning in the world today. What can we learn from Shibuya and how can this be applied in the workplace?
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Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - October 2009
Francis Marshall recommends caution when considering implementing emerging technology within organisations.

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - September 2009
Line managers have a crucial role to play in the future of L&D, says Francis Marshall.

e-Learning, a success story

Le Point - Raphaël Beaugrand - 12th September 2008
Increasingly entertaining applications. Editors are deploying their creativity in proposing complete and entertaining programmes using online videos, quizzes or virtual characters. The issue here is to captivate the learner's attention. "Assessments and training include content and management techniques that focus on interaction. The idea here is to liven up the training and prevent learners from zapping to another module without having integrated the previous one", explained Pascal Debordes of Cegos…

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - August 2009
Francis Marshall calls for more discipline in L&D to help people and organisations through a period of great change.

M-Learning or how to learn with your phone

Le Nouvel Economiste - page 34 - Sovanny Chhun - 2nd July 2009 - published on  www.cadremploi.fr
You've heard of e-Learning, now there's m-Learning where you get your training via your smartphone. There are 4.2 million mobile Internet users in France, 72% of whom have a smartphone (...). Pascal Debordes of Cegos thinks that this is likely to become tomorrow's learning style but that it faces diffusion problems in France where computers are preferred to smartphones…

e-Learning: progressive shift in skills transfer

Net & Digest - Ujjef - August 2009
For a while, people believed that e-Learning would not survive the dot-com bubble burst... As it turned out, they were mistaken. A study carried out by the Cegos Observatory shows that e-Learning is increasingly present within French companies. e-Learning providers are optimistic about its growth despite the fact that SMEs have yet to adopt this tool unanimously. At present, while listed companies have latched on to tailored e-Learning solutions, smaller businesses find off-the-shelf solutions and authoring tools more attractive…

Opinion Francis Marshall

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - July 2009
In a new series of articles exploring attitudes towards L&D across Europe, Francis Marshall asks: “Are we listening to today’s learner?”.

España rompe tópicos sobre el 'e-learning'

El Mundo – Quique Rodriguez – 17th May 2009
Según un reciente estudio, las empresas españolas hacen un mayor uso de las tecnologías para la formación que los principales países europeos, pero la calidad de los cursos no obtiene el mismo resultado positivo...

Listen to your learners

Training Zone - Francis Marshall - 22 April 2009
A new European training study by Cegos reveals that learners are keener than HR and the training function to embrace new technologies and training practices and that professional skills development is still playing second fiddle to technical skills training. Francis Marshall shares the findings.

Serious games for serious people

Edutainment for games-based learning for businesses

Le nouvel économiste - Sovanny Chhun - 2nd July 2009
"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information."  Marc de Fouchécour, Professor at Arts et Métiers Paristech and Vice-Manager of Nextmodernity, likes to quote Albert Einstein when explaining the interest in serious games as a training tool (...). For Pascal Debordes, Cegos Director of e-Learning solutions and IS & Business Deployment, "The Wii game console revolutionised how people saw video games. It also expanded the target audience of players to include all generations, from the very young to pensioners. One of the strengths of the console lies in fun simulations where reflexes are tested and personal answers are given. People want their training to provide the same sensations. We acquire reflexes through repetitive action which is made bearable when the context is entertaining."…

Employees happy with blended solutions

Entreprise & Carrières - Laurent Gérard - from 14th to 20th April 2009
Employees ranked this training method positively thanks to its realistic situations (53%), environmental conditions (51%) and the presence of interviews with experts. In terms of educational expectations, clear support was expressed for simulations (53%) followed by self-assessment tools (32%) and coaching support from managers or co-workers (29%)…

Study reveals that French employees are rarely trained for leadership

Les Echos - Frédéric Brillet - 14th April 2009
In spite of the tense economic climate, 81% of European HR departments plan to maintain or increase their training budget. In France, however, this figure is at a low of 73% and 26% of companies plan to spend less on training. The same situation arises with e-Learning, which has been accepted by half of all European firms. At present, only 24% of French employees have attended an e-Learning course as compared with Spanish employees (51%). "The Spanish government provides important subsidies for this training method and large firms such as Telefonica have created online training portals that are extremely sophisticated", observed Pascal Debordes…

A strategy for success

Training Journal - Francis Marshall - April 2009
Francis Marshall sets out why having an effective learning strategy is so important in the recession and how to achieve one.

Online training: France well behind other European countries

Le Parisien Emploi - Catherine Gasié-Peclers - April 2009
The crisis has forced companies to rethink current practices and adopt new technologies. Classroom lectures are now a thing of the past. Online training (or e-Learning) and blended solutions (traditional classroom training combined with e-Learning) are gaining ground. According to a survey carried out in four European countries (France, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain) by the Cegos Observatory, four out of ten employees have benefited from online training. 89% of HR departments are also satisfied with online training because it reduces costs by 20% to 30%…

e-Learning: why France is lagging behind its European neighbours

Le Point - Mélody Enguix - 16th April 2009
According to a recent study published by Cegos, the leading professional education provider in Europe, this is linked to the degree of governmental support…

The Cegos Group partner of ENI, leader in online office skills training

www.indicerh.net - March 2009
The Cegos Group, European leader in training, can now offer training in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Windows Vista or OpenOffice thanks to MEDIAplus eLearning, the e-Learning solution for the main office applications from ENI. ENI, specialising in office skills training, can now add the e-Learning Solutions by Cegos catalogue to its offering…

Cegos to offer online language training

Action Commerciale - no. 292 - 1st January 2009
Cegos has partnered with Digital Publishing, one of the pioneers in online language training. The Cegos Group is now able to offer more than 150 e-Learning modules in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Mandarin…

Red Bee Media signs up for e-learning pilot with Cegos

Personnel Today – 20th March 2009
Cegos UK, part of Europe’s largest learning and development company, today announced that it is to implement an e-learning pilot programme for leading UK content provider, Red Bee Media…

E-Learning passes the test

Conspectus magazine - Gary Weinstein - January 2009
Towards the end of the last decade, e-learning was seen as the ‘darling’ of the training market. Companies were drawn to its low costs and apparent flexibility. Unfortunately, e-learning didn’t live up to its initial hype.
But times have now changed, with a renewed take-up of e-learning.

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