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20,000 US Hackers Wanted.Creating the Computer Elite (or Failing at it)

Kapp Notes

Back in 2007, I attended a keynote address by Dr. Peter Joyce of Cisco Systems who predicted a shortage of Information Technology workers. million new computer and IT related jobs will be needed between 2002 and 2012" and concluded that there will "be intense competition for top talent in the field. "I

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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 2006 2010 2007 Does the associated years for SharePoint suggest it's a technology for the future?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Go Read a Book

Learning Visions

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 Go Read a Book How many books did you read in 2007 that were not work or school related? by Caleb Craine, The New Yorker, December 24, 2007. Craine ) Steven Johnson (Everything Bad is Good For You) (a book of which I read about half of in 2007) argues that games can make us smarter. What do you think?

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Top 5 e-Learning books for beginners

eFront

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (October 28, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0787960519 The E-Learning Handbook : Past Promises, Present Challenges by Saul Carliner and Patti Shank.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

Learning Visions

Is there some historical background here that Im missing, like computers in the UK didnt have speakers until 2002 so they never bothered? This applies particularly where text and sound are likely to be used (notably the studies on PowerPoint and speech). Is there something cultural going on? Do Americans just like to talk way too much?

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Interview on lms-selection.com

eFront

The first version was ready at the middle of 2002 and was used at an EU project. At mid 2007 we decided that it was time to open eFronts source and let other people contribute to the system - this strategic shift helped us improve the quality of the product and make it known to the learning community.

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Are You Riding the Waves or the Ripples? Tracking Learning Trends

Vignettes Learning

Thinkers of that era believed that when learners retain abundant knowledge, they perform on the job when needed: “Thought First - Action Later” (Johnson, 2002). I made a study in 2007 on the Impacts of Micro-Learning. In decades past, however, evidence showed that “Thought First - Action Later” was inadequate.