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Where e-HR meets e-Learning
London, July 2003
Show report by John Helmer, Editor, Epic Thinking
Colleagues were sympathetic. The talk was of short straws. I would
be subjected, it was warned, to a day's worth of over-hyped sales
pitches from e-HR technology vendors, and would boil alive in their
oily balm. However, my colleagues' fears on my behalf were groundless:
this was a fascinating event and, as ever with the ELN, pretty good
value.
It's always useful to look at your subject area from a different
perspective, especially when, as here, that perspective is a wider
one. In the organisational context, learning is unarguably a subset
of Human Resources (even if training managers don't always see it
that way!). Likewise the move from face-to face training to e-learning
is part of a larger movement in the business world from physical
to virtual, including - rather later in the day than for other parts
of the business, perhaps - the wholesale 'electronification' of
HR.
However, I did have my subject area - e-learning and blended learning
- very much in mind as I watched the presentations. Was e-HR just
a matter of taking training records online, I wondered, and linking
them in with other management information? Or did e-HR have some
grander vision for the role of learning within organisations? Selected
presentations are reviewed on the following pages.
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Introduction
Hopkins and Markham: e-HR and change
Mark Doherty plays buzzword bingo
Case study: On the bus with the Co-op
SAP: What is the return on training investment
Conclusion
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