Purpose Social media sites are one of the vital technological developments of WEB 2.0. This study aims to emphasize on building an empirical model to investigate the impending determinants of users’ intention to use social media sites in higher education. Depending on the existing theories...

Simulations have long been used in business schools to give students experience making real-world decisions in a relatively low-risk environment. The OAKLAND A’S BASEBALL BUSINESS SIMULATOR takes a traditional business simulation and applies it to the sport industry where sales of tangible...

Purpose – Explains how Walgreens Boots Alliance teamed up with Rosetta Stone on a digital language-learning program that is bringing many and significant benefits to individual employees and the company as a whole. Design/methodology/approach – Reveals that the aims were to develop English...

Purpose – Explains the advantages brought by e-learning to Bluebird Care, a provider of care in the home. Design/methodology/approach – Explores the reasons for the adoption of e-learning and describes the way in which it has been implemented. Findings – Reveals that e-learning courses...

Purpose – Explains that the National Deaf Children's Society introduced e-learning when a lack of resources made it difficult to support all staff using a traditional training approach. Design/methodology/approach – Considers how executive-board members, many of whom had little or no...

Purpose – Observes how a learning program helped a new business created following the collapse of UK care-home company Southern Cross to deal with a legacy of poor management and damaged morale and their inevitable consequences for service quality. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to observe how members of the Hanover Housing Association’s learning and development team who could not afford the cost of bespoke e-learning trained themselves in instructional design instead. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the reasons for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper describes how an organization that would have had to pay almost £60,000 – more than its entire annual training budget – for a licence for a standard e-learning module on infection-control decided to create a course for itself....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a one‐stop shop to deliver blended learning for crew, volunteers and staff of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the reasons for developing the new system, the form...