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	What's New? E-Learning Survey New Feature - Restaurant Reviews! LearningEdge News

E-Learning Survey

The Conference Board of Canada completed a survey of 570 organizations in March 2003 about their use of e-learning. The highlights of the report are that 77% of respondents' organizations are using e-learning to some degree, although for most respondents (37%), it represents only 1 - 5% of their current training efforts. The main challenges to implementing e-learning are 1) the cost of developing or purchasing e-learning solutions; 2) the time required to develop e-learning; 3) the need to be convinced of e-learning's effectiveness as compared to other training modes. Of real interest is that of the 33 (5%) organizations doing Level 4 evaluation (measuring impact on organizational performance), only 4 indicated that they would need to be convinced of e-learning's cost effectiveness. Conversely, of the 153 (26%) organizations doing Level 1 evaluation (rates of participation and user satisfaction), 98 indicated that they would need to be convinced of e-learning's cost effectiveness. See the link below for the full report. E-Learning Survey »

New Feature - Restaurant Reviews!

Some of you who know us well will know that we are lovers of good food. In a spirit of fun and with an understanding that it's hard to learn with an empty stomach, we've decided to include a brief restaurant review in this month's Muse. Depending on feedback and how the mood takes us, we may include more, from different cities in future issues of the Muse. What do you think? We spent the summer at Royal Roads University's campus just outside Victoria. While we were there we had the opportunity to eat out every now and again. Here's a brief description of one of our four favourite restaurants. There are many more that we have enjoyed, follow the link below to see reviews of four that we like. On Government Street, in between two Chinese grocers is wee treasure. We first read about Brasserie L'ecole in Enroute, the Air Canada in flight magazine. It was rated as one of Canada's top ten new restaurants. We had to find out more! The food is amazing. During the summer they have a variety of fish on the menu, which we really enjoyed. They had chicken and some great sounding steaks, but we haven't tried these yet. The highlight for us was the cheese board. You're asked to select the cheeses you'd like when ordering your starters and mains; that way it can be gently brought up to room temperature before serving. A real treat is to pop in after an afternoon's shopping, sit at the bar, and enjoy a shared bowl of mussels and follow it up with a few cheeses. We're getting hungry just thinking about it! Look out for the great selection of Belgian beers and Belgian style beers from Quebec. Restaurant Reviews - Victoria BC »

LearningEdge News

LearningEdge is a set of tools and processes that bring together learning strategy and business goals in a participatory, practical and easy-to-apply manner. If you are interesting in your organization becoming a learning organization, LearningEdge provides the map to get there. Click here to download a presentation about LearningEdge. LearningEdge Case Studies The first LearningEdge Case Studies are now available online. A range of organizations are described, their Learning Signatures are outlined and the lessons learned from working with Learning Edge are highlighted. These first eight case studies come from work carried out in the UK in the summer 2002, at the end of the LearningEdge development process. Congrats to our Vancouver Participants! Congratulations to Deb Gooding, Ian Creery, Jan Wright and Anne Schultz for their recent completion of the LearningEdge certification workshop in Vancouver in September. LearningEdge Certification Dates Calliope Learning is the only company in North America licensed to train and certify people in the use of the LearningEdge toolset. 2003 Dates Location Early Bird Cut Off Registration Deadline December 8, 9, 10 Toronto October 27 November 24 2004 Dates Location Early Bird Cut Off Registration Deadline May 17, 18, 19 Calgary April 5 April 19 June 21, 22, 23 Vancouver May 10 May 24 October 18, 19, 20 Victoria September 6 September 20 November 29, 30, December 1 Toronto October 18 November 1 The cost is $2400 (plus GST), regular rate and $2200 early bird rate. Click here to register. LearningEdge on the Move!! We've had some requests for taking LearningEdge to other parts of Canada at different times from our scheduled workshops. If you can get 6 people interested, we'll travel to you! Call us today at (250) 213 6239 or email info@calliopelearning.com to explore the possibilities. Certification Sponsorship Opportunities Contact us if you are interested in taking the LearningEdge Certification but need some help financially. We've tried to come up with a creative solution that could be especially attractive to independent consultants. LearningEdge Online Presentation »