Technology‐based learning (TBL) provides a flexible learning approach to support the knowledge and skills base within an organisation. TBL also creates an interesting learning environment to motivate continuous learning. Emphasis is on the engineering design environment due to the continuous...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how a large UK care‐home group uses e‐learning to ensure that its 4,000 employees, of widely varied backgrounds and academic ability, are fully trained to comply with legal requirements and provide residents with high‐quality care....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide description and an analysis of two worlds colliding where real‐world roles or ideas play out in a virtual dimension. Inhabited by digital natives, the virtual world in a learning organization is a journey back to the future of microworlds...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to described the new collaborative working and knowledge‐sharing processes made possible at Fugro through the latest e‐learning publishing systems. Design/methodology/approach – Draws on information provided by the company's chief surveyor, Offshore...

Purpose – Both for‐profit and not‐for‐profit organisations have been replacing face‐to‐face HRM activities with web‐based HRM tools, e‐HRM for short, for employees and managers since the 1990s. This paper aims to look at whether this is of benefit to an organisation....

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe a global training initiative at IBM that uses the new “virtual world” of the internet as an induction tool. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the new IMB@Play program, which engages the social‐network capabilities of the...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe the law‐scholarship scheme, which enables administrators and caseworkers at the Crown Prosecution Service to become lawyers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper highlights the reasons the scheme was introduced, the way in which it...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine an anonymous employee survey conducted by SkillSoft's client, Hilton International, in the summer of 2005. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the results of the annual survey, which is part of an ongoing program to establish how Hilton's...