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Culture Change is More Than Skin Deep

The Performance Improvement Blog

Marissa Mayer , new CEO of Yahoo, received notoriety recently when she instituted a new policy that ended employees working from home. Bob Flexon , Dynergy CEO since July 2011, has instituted many new policies to change the culture of this $1.3 billion electric power producer that has only recently emerged from bankruptcy.

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TechKnowledge 2011: Why Learning Professionals Still Have a Lot to Learn

Mindflash

I usually attribute this phrase to others, but I admit that last week at the ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 Conference , I only heard what I wanted to hear — all about e-learning practices in organizations. In a panel discussion of chief learning officers, Susan Burnett, Chief Learning Officer at Yahoo!, Make it Tangible.

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MOOCs for Corporate E-learning

Origin Learning

What started as an initiative by the Stanford University in 2011 has quickly found its applications as a learning medium in educational institutions and corporates alike. Similarly, Yahoo! Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are relatively new yet already a rage, so much so that the New York Times named 2012 as the ‘Year of the MOOC’.

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The Evolution of the “Common eLearning Man”

eLearning Brothers

There was an increase of wireless access and search technologies like Yahoo and Google. From 2011 to the present day, more and more tools became available to us than ever before. Ideas like the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), educational games, and hybrid courses were being adapted. User created content. Online video.

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The Tale of a Job Hunt

Allison Rossett

This is the tale of a job hunt that I began in November, 2011. Tweet Meet guest blogger, Marci Paino. Here is the story of her search for a new position. On the trail to a new position. A few hours were spent updating and tweaking a resume. A bit more time was spent reaching out to a network of colleagues and mentors. and Experian.

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single-source learning content development…

Xyleme

Publishing Your Way to Content Success e-Books, Open Standards, and Content Formats RSS feed Google Youdao Xian Guo Zhua Xia My Yahoo! No trackbacks yet. newsgator Bloglines iNezha Contact blogs (at) xyleme.com About Me Dawn Poulos is the primary author of this blog. Produced by Covisio. Theme by mg12. Valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS 3.

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8 Things we MUST do in 2013 to seize the potential of mLearning

mLearning Revolution

Here’s another statistic that bodes well for mobile, Apple sold more iPads in Q4 2011 than any individual PC manufacturer sold PCs. In 2012 tech giants like Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Microsoft, Intel and HP posted disappointing earning results. million activations a day, that’s roughly 39 million activations a month.