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The Corporate Learning Gap

The Performance Improvement Blog

One major conclusion from this 2015 study is: … more than 8 out of 10 (85 percent) respondents cited learning as “important” or “very important,”—up 21 percent from last year. Yet, in a troubling development, more companies than ever report they are unprepared to meet this challenge.

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Industry Report: Too Much Training; Not Enough Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Training magazine has published its 34 th annual Industry Report that is based on a survey of its database of organizations with 100 or more employees, asking them questions about training expenditures and activities. Instructor-led classroom only” is still reported to be the primary method of employee learning and development.

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. Work teams are the primary source of learning about norms, values and expectations. percent revisited strategies once or not at all.

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How Technologies Will Change the Learning Function’s Role

ATD Learning Technologies

” This latest ATD and i4cp research collaboration found that the majority of organizational learning functions are not effectively leveraging technologies to support their ability to achieve business goals or L&D objectives. billion (eMarketer 2015). That same year is expected to see tablet users exceeding 1.4

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How Technologies Will Change the Learning Function’s Role

ATD Learning Technologies

” This latest ATD and i4cp research collaboration found that the majority of organizational learning functions are not effectively leveraging technologies to support their ability to achieve business goals or L&D objectives. billion (eMarketer 2015). That same year is expected to see tablet users exceeding 1.4

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MOOCs: The Beginning of the End?

ATD Learning Technologies

It didn’t take long for learning professionals to catch on, but the future of MOOCs may not be as bright as it once seemed. News & World Report and the Babson Survey Research Group show that the popularity of MOOCs has plateaued, at least in the academic world. Roughly 11 percent of institutions offer them today, but only 2.3

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The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point

The Performance Improvement Blog

This post by David Grebow first appeared in LinkedIn Pulse on November 15, 2015. When Stephen Gill and I were researching and writing our latest book, Only Smart Companies Win, about what it means to create and work in a “Learning Culture”, we tried to imagine what it would mean to develop training programs in that culture.