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Veterans in Civilian Roles: A Business Challenge and Big L&D Opportunity

Degreed

Years later, after I’d left Iraq and Kuwait and transitioned out of the military, I worked in instructional design. Transitioning from military work and life to civilian work and life is a challenge faced by 200,000 military personnel who leave the U.S. We got lucky that day. A sense of panic spread. armed services annually.

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Game Element: Strategy

Kapp Notes

Chess pieces play an important role in determining a player’s strategy. In this game, two players establish an abstracted battlefield with Marshalls, Miners, bombs, Colonels, Scouts and other military positions. Perhaps one of the best known strategy games is Chess. Another popular strategic board game is Stratego.

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DAU: Becoming a modern learning platform in 2021 … it’s about the song!

CLO Magazine

Jim Woolsey came to Defense Acquisition University in 2014 as its new president and inherited a world-class corporate university that had earned more than 70 awards in 15 years. A November 2020 paper by Woolsey and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Sustainment) Alan R.

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Gamification in e-learning

Saffron Interactive

At the LSG conference, this was explored in depth with a talk from Alicia Sanchez who has been appointed “Games Czar” at the US Defense Acquisition University (DAU). By using the setting of a game, a far more positive response was generated from the workforce in digesting the necessary content for their roles. Radoff, Jon (2011).

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Guardian of the Coast

CLO Magazine

Gladys Brignoni is not your typical military officer. She taught students of all levels and ages, many of whom were the children and spouses of military personnel. “I It was her first brush with the military and foretold a future to come. I never thought I’d work in the military, but I met the qualifications,” she said.

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How to Become a Learning Organization (An Interview with Michelle Ockers)

Convergence Training

We’ve written before about what a learning organization is and what are some of their traits, and we’ve even talked about how to integrate safety departments into learning organization efforts (see this Safety & Learning Organizations article or this recorded Integrating Safety into Learning Organizations ASSP webinar ).

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Chief Learning Officer (CLO): Job Description, Trends, and Salaries

eLearningMind

Whatever the role is called within an organization, it has evolved over the years and become much more important to the success of your company and job satisfaction of your employees. . As with most C-Level positions, the role requires an individual with vast practical experience at multiple levels in an organization and industry.

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