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Signature HealthCare: Changing Long-Term Care

CLO Magazine

For example, its Serenity unit, which offers specialized care to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, has a program that teaches employees how to better relate to people with cognitive disorders. Each of the organization’s chaplains are trained as trainers, and they train caregivers.

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Are Your Learners as Intelligent as They Can Be?

Vignettes Learning

Ward featured in Scientific American asked people to rate how smart they felt (cognitive self-esteem) while using Google. They suggest that we are seeing people now who include Google as part of their cognitive tool set, even to the point they can't distinguish Googling something from actually knowing something. Research by Daniel M.

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Why CLOs Should Invest in Early Education

CLO Magazine

To compensate for this demographic shift, the Labor Department estimates employers will have to spend up to $109 billion in additional recruitment and training costs to ensure there are enough skilled workers to fulfill their organization’s mission. Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a California-based journalist.

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How Sleep Affects Performance?—?And What Companies Can Do

CLO Magazine

Moreover, a 2011 sleep study by researchers from University of California, San Diego, reported results over a four-year period, which included 459 women. For example, four consecutive nights of only five hours of sleep per night hinders physical and cognitive performance to the same degree as blood alcohol content of .06.

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Are These the Three E-Learning Books You Would Recommend?

Rapid eLearning

In addition, it also introduces the same cognitive load stuff that you’d find in Multimedia Learning and E-Learning & the Science of Instruction (both good books, by the way). Tidbits: 2011 is winding down. January 11: Training Magazine (free webinar)— Learn to Use PowerPoint for More Than Boring Presentations. Louis (ASTD).

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eLearning Conferences 2012

Tony Karrer

Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Note also that some events will be cancelled at a later date, such as those in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011. link] November 28-December 1, 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

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eLearning Conferences 2012

eFront

Note also that some events will be cancelled at a later date, such as those in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011. January 2012 January2-4, 2012 College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Orlando,California, USA. All Internet addresses were verified at the time of publication.