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Part 1: The Shift From Push to Pull Learning

CLO Magazine

In 2001, the company purchased Books24x7, a digital asset library software company. “Investors asked why we were buying an e-books company because e-books and e-learning seemed to be two different domains,” said John Ambrose, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development at Skillsoft.

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Employers Boosting Efforts to Help Workers Save for Retirement

CLO Magazine

Aon Hewitt surveyed more than 400 plan sponsors, representing more than 10 million employees, in plans that total $500 billion in retirement assets, to determine their retirement benefits strategies, plan design and administrative practices. Just 45 percent of employers allowed for day-one contributions in 2001.

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A new recipe for learner engagement (and how to bake it)

CrossKnowledge

Despite an attractive learning offer, state-of-art learning technology and a corporate learning strategy, we hear that many CLOs are struggling with what really counts: learner engagement! The 4 learner engagement clusters are: Organizational strategy and culture. Learning offer. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 451-474. Corbalan, G.,

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Back in 2007, I pointed out various aspects of what I was seeing: strategy/strategic and performance are back as topics after dropping way down in 2006 surprisingly trainer is also back, you would think in the age of eLearning 2.0 2010 2015 2011 2013 You can pretty much do this endlessly. eLearning Technology.

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A tale of two keynotes

Learning with e's

I urged universities to develop new strategies that were based upon digital technologies to widen access, increase quality of provision and generally subscribe to the idea that students need no longer attend traditional lectures to achieve quality learning outcomes (Wheeler, 2004). In hindsight, neither argument was too wide of the mark.

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Developing Private Ryan

CLO Magazine

million military personnel have been deployed to the Middle East and Afghanistan since late 2001. percent in 2011, significantly higher than the national average of 8.7 The Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011 includes a new tax credit worth up to $5,600 for employers that hire unemployed veterans. percent the year before.

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A Commitment to Move

CLO Magazine

Born with severe bronchial asthma, Varma’s condition worsened as Accenture expanded its India footprint from 200 people in 2001 to an astounding 40,000 employees by 2008. When Varma was asked to lead learning for Accenture in 2011, he and his wife, Preeti, who is an artist, would move again, this time to New York.

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