NetCom Learning Partners with WOBI, powered by HSM for Major Business Events Offering Insights from Business and ...

NEW YORK, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NetCom Learning, the leading technology and business learning center, has partnered with global multimedia content company WOBI, powered by HSM to promote major business events in New York City, the company just announced.

The collaboration will include the World Innovation Forum, focusing on using innovation to create business opportunities and success. Another event happening this year is the World Business Forum, which will help business professionals connect and exchange ideas while absorbing a wealth of business knowledge shared by some of the most successful business leaders in the world.

NetCom Learning's purpose is to promote the values of lifelong learning, and founder and CEO Russell Sarder said the partnership is a wonderful way to share the benefits of lifelong learning with business professionals who are hungry to succeed.

WOBI, the producers of the World Innovation Forum and World Business Forum, specialize in executive education, bringing together the world's top executives and leaders to foster an exchange of knowledge and ideas through a variety of online content, print media and offline conferences.

"We're pleased to have this opportunity to partner with HSM in promoting these events. All of the business professionals who attend these events have one thing in common — a desire to learn. Lifelong learning is crucial to business success, and our mission at NetCom Learning is to encourage people to continue learning in order to succeed," Sarder said.

The World Innovation Forum brings together business leaders who are changing the way business is done. Guy Kawasaki, Jean-Claude Biver, Russell Stevens, Jane McGonigal, Clay Shirky, Sir Ken Robinson, Mohanbir Sawhney, Scott Cook, Henry Chesbrough, Andrew Winston, and Ray Kurzwei will offer their business insights at the event.

The World Business Forum is dedicated to building better businesses and professionals through the sharing of ideas and knowledge. It attracts a powerful network of businessmen and women who believe in the transformative potential of talent, enterprise and endeavor. The World Business Forum boasts speakers like Fareed Zakaria, Richard Branson, Jack Welch, Barbara Corcoran, Jim Collins, Michael Porter, Mark C. Thompson, Mark King, Robert Gates, Don Tapscott, Sherry Turkle, Lynda Gratton, Ursula Burns, and Marcus Buckingham.

To find out more about NetCom Learning or its partnership with HSM, visit www.NetComLearning.com  

Information about the World Innovation Forum can be found at: http://www.netcomlearning.com/world-innovation-forum/World_Innovation_Forum_New_York_2012.html

About HSM and WOBI
Specializing in executive education, HSM has brought the world's top executives and thought leaders together via their world-class conferences to analyze and debate the latest and most pressing issues in business, science, technology, and the economy since 1989.

Powered by HSM, WOBI – A World of Business Ideas – delivers content across distinct platforms. WOBI is an unparalleled source of insight and inspiration dedicated to building better businesses, better people, a better world.

About NetCom Learning
NetCom Learning is a premier provider of IT and business-training solutions to companies, individuals, and government agencies. Since its inception in 1998, NetCom Learning has trained over 80 percent of the Fortune 100, serviced over 45,500 business customers, and advanced the skills of more than 71,000 professionals through hands-on, expert-led training, with the organization maintaining an average instructor evaluation score of 8.6 out of 9. NetCom Learning was recognized by Microsoft Corporation as its Worldwide Training Partner of the Year and named twice to Inc. Magazine's list of fastest growing private companies in America. The organization was also recently named to the 2011 IT Training Companies Watch List by TrainingIndustry.com.

The purpose of NetCom Learning is to promote the values of lifelong learning.

Contact:
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212-629-7265
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UNICON Study: Mobile Learning Offers Growing Opportunities for Executive Education Programs Around the Globe - Consumer Electronics Net

Company News: Page (1) of 1 - 01/12/12January 12, 2012 -- Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) January 12, 2012

New research from UNICON (International University Consortium for Executive Education) reveals that many business schools across the globe have untapped opportunities to provide innovative executive education learning programs facilitated by mobile technology. The UNICON report, Going mobile in executive education, is based on research conducted by UNICON member Ashridge Business School in the United Kingdom. It analyzes the potential impact of mobile technologies on the executive education learning landscape around the world. The report looks at mobile learning, and how portable technologies -- smartphones , PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), handheld computers and personal media players -- can support and extend the reach of teaching and learning.

The report finds that some learning providers are embracing mobile learning and developing new approaches to learning. Included in the report are detailed case studies of: Abilene Christian University (USA), The Open University (UK), Ashridge Business School (UK), Harvard Business School (USA), Seton Hill University (USA), IMD (Switzerland), EPIC, (UK), and Skill Pill, University of Cape Town (South Africa).

While the research highlights examples of innovative applications of mobile learning in business schools, universities and the private sector around the globe, it concludes that many more executive education providers today could be maximizing the vast potential of mobile devices for learning.

The future of executive education is about choice and personalisation. Our survey makes clear that providers should not wait for the industry to settle, said UNICON Chairman Bill Shedden, who also serves as Director of the Centre for Customised Executive Education at the Cranfield School of Management in Bedford, England. Our recent State of the Industry survey also found that while many executive education providers are moving cautiously, they have begun experimenting with technology and in many cases are taking more technology initiative than clients expect or demand. In other words, executive education clients look to university-based providers to help them understand what new technology is important.

The global nature of businesses and the growing capabilities of powerful mobile devices mean that adopting new technologies in learning is essential to continuing to attract clients in the competitive executive education market, Shedden continued. UNICON is dedicated to helping its members learn more about how to effectively adopt new technologies and to remain industry leaders in university-based executive education programs around the globe.

Mobile technology can help provide executives with pre- and post-course support, and the latest mobile learning applications can extend their access to a multimedia-rich education. It also provides a means for participants to stay connected with one another as professional resources after a program ends. Other benefits of mobile learning identified by the report include:
    Just enough learning highly applied, easily digestible learning for busy executives.    Just-in-time learning convenient, flexible and relevant learning at the exact moment learning is required.     Just-for-me learning learning can be accessed via mobile devices in many different ways, which means that there are opportunities for it to appeal to many different learning styles.    Mobile devices can facilitate collaboration. SMS texting reminders, knowledge sharing forums and ask a question forums enable and enhance interaction between participants and instructors.

Research Fellow at Ashridge Business School and UNICON report co-author Dr Carina Paine Schofield noted, Advances in mobile technologies and high levels of mobile phone penetration are changing the way that learning is being adopted and used in educational contexts, and it has evolved into more than e-learning with a phone. Mobile learning offers easier access to learning materials so students can be more productive with their time. It empowers executive education providers to serve up learning in multiple formats audio, visual or text to suit individual learning styles.

Ashridge Business School was one of the first executive education providers to establish an online learning resource. Its online learning platform, Virtual Ashridge, lets students home in on certain interests and choose a style of learning that fits their personality without information overload: some may want to listen to an audio file or read text, while others may want to take part in an online discussion.

Director of Learning Services at Ashridge Business School Tony Sheehan said: Mobile learning offers a powerful opportunity to introduce learning on demand. It allows individuals to connect to executive education at a time that suits them and in a way that can support current business challenges. Learners are no longer dependent on the classroom, as mobile devices allow learners to connect in times of reflection a long train journey, a daily commute where the mind is alert and open to new insights.

During these times of austerity, mobile and e-learning tutorials also provide a cost- and time-efficient way of educating staff that avoids the travel and accommodation costs of off-site courses, Sheehan added.

About UNICON
Founded in 1972 as an association of executive education program directors, UNICON has evolved from an informal common-interest group into an incorporated non-profit consortium committed to advancing the field of university- and business school-sponsored executive education. Membership is composed of nearly 100 educational institutions from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

UNICON is committed to the principle that academically based executive education provides a combination of thought-leadership at the highest levels of rigor, masterful learning environments and practical application that cannot be replicated by non-academic providers.

The organization sponsors and conducts research studies that bring to the forefront this unique value of business-school-based executive education. It also provides industry/operational knowledge and networking opportunities for members through conferences, workshops, research, benchmarking, website, newsletters, job postings, discussion boards and forums and other activities.

The UNICON report, Going mobile in executive education: how mobile technologies are changing the executive learning landscape, was written by Dr. Carina Paine Schofield, Trudi West and Emily Taylor of Ashridge Business School.

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Business Briefs: Awards, luncheon, learning opportunities

Updated: January 9, 2012 12:43PM

Batavia

National recognition for PSA: Batavia Access Television (BATV) recently received an honorable mention for a Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring the Batavia Public Library’s Born to Read program from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA). The Born to Read program offers complimentary bags to parents of new babies who live in Batavia or within the Batavia Public Library District or School District. The bags contain several books for babies and early literacy information for parents. English and Spanish language bags are available.

Geneva

Networking luncheon: New year’s networking is the theme for the next Geneva Women in Business luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 17 at Northern Illinois Food Bank, 273 Dearborn Court, Geneva. Solidify relationships with fellow GWIB members during the special networking event catered by Gen-Hoe Restaurant. Reservations at 630-232-6060. Members: $25 with reservation; $30 if invoiced. Nonmembers: $30 with reservation; $35 if invoiced.

Naperville

Artists, learn to make money: North Central College invites aspiring artists and entrepreneurs to a free panel discussion from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 19 on “Making it in the Arts” at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth St. Contact Amy Rogers at 630-637-5468 or aerogers@noctrl.edu to learn more.

Yorkville

Yorkville’s Link to Business: Yorkville Area Chamber of Commerce, Leads Group 1 member, Rick Winninger, owner of Action Graphix and Firearm Safety Academy of Yorkville, was the presenter and host to YACC Leads group 1 on Dec. 15. Winninger has provided members of the group with display boards, imprinted table cloths, vehicle wraps, signs, decals and banners just to list a few items. As a public service to veterans, Winninger also offers free “welcome home” banners. Winninger is a NRA certified instructor and range safety officer and offers an average of four NRA certified classes per year. Call Winninger, 630-364-8850. Yorkville Chamber, 630-553-6853 or support@yorkvillechamber.org.

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