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Beyond the hype: The ROI of Social Recruitment

There’s a problem rumbling when it comes to social recruiting, writes recruitment expert Bill Boorman. Talent professionals are asking whether - after several years of increasing adoption - it is worth continuing investing time and money in social recruiting, or to return to more traditional, tested methods.  And crucially, what metrics do you actually need to get an answer to this conundrum?

The problem is that people have changed. They’ve changed the way in which they connect with companies, and what they are looking for before they commit to applying for an opportunity. They are looking for influence before application, but what influences decisions is a hard thing to measure.

Learning Technologies 2013 - Becoming a High Performance Learning Organisation

Bob Danna, a director at Bersin by Deloitte started his Learning Technologies conference session today by sharing data from the recently published Bersin UK L&D Outlook Report. It makes for interesting reading:
 
- Training spend per learner is on average £838 in the UK vs £441 in the US.
- L&D staffing per 1,000 employees is on average 10.1 in the UK vs 4.2 in the US.
- Training hours per learner is 7.4 hours a year  in the UK vs 22 in the US. The US has embraced a lot of virtual and blended learning.

Learning Technologies 2013 - Future Learning Trends

Futurist Gerd Leonhard kicked off day two of the Learning Technologies Conference 2013 with a look into developments in learning in the coming five to ten years.

He told delegates to be mindful of the following 10 trends:

1 Embrace and design for social, local and mobile.
In the next three years 60% of internet traffic will come from mobile devices. Currently 10% of global web traffic comes from mobile. Leonhard said that mobile devices will get cheaper and cheaper, as will connectivity, and this will see huge growth of web activity especially in emerging markets. Imagine having five billion people online, he said.

Learning Technologies 2013 - Creating agile, business driven learning solutions

Today at the Learning Technologies 2013 conference and exhibition Lumesse ran a session on agile and business driven learning solutions. A packed house heard Lumesse's manager of learning solutions Carole Bower and organisational learning consultant Paul Rudd discuss business agility and the role of learning in the future

Learning Technologies 2013 - Analyst Q&A

This afternoon, David Perring and David Wilson of analyst eLearnity, asked delegates - both in the room and on Twitter - to pose questions focused around, 'The Corporate Realities of elearning'.

The questions were many and varied as you can see from the tweets below. Here is an outline some of the key questions and the eLearnity feedback.

Where should the 70:20:10 model of learning sit in elearning?

eLearnity: It is better to think about the impact of learning rather than models. That said, there is a tension in doing informal learning in formal, regulated learning environments.

Learning Technologies 2013 - Creating Impact in L&D

The reality for organisations is that they are changing and changing rapidly and this is problematic for L&D, says Nigel Paine, the BBC's former chief learning officer.

Talking at the Learning Technologies 2013 conference, Paine told delegates that L&D could limp along doing what it has always done or look to change itself in line with changes across the wider business.

Let’s Talk Learning

There’s a busy week ahead for the Lumesse team with important learning industry events taking place in both London and Karlsruhe.

In London, we’ll be reporting live from Learning Technologies at Olympia, where on Tuesday we’ll also be running a seminar with organisational learning consultant, Paul Rudd, examining how to deliver agile learning with tangible business impact.

If you’re planning to attend either event, please stop by our stand to talk about our award winning learning and content solutions, including the latest in mobile and social learning.  We’re also offering the chance to win an iPad Mini.

Check back here for further event updates and reports throughout the week.