When we talk about learning, the concept of retention is almost always an integral part of the discussion.  For example, we frequently talk about how and when to present information to optimize retention. In fact, retention is almost synonymous with learning.  And, no discussion about retention can be complete without also discussing its opposite:   forgetting. Until recently, I had never actually thought about the forgetting part of learning.  This concept was named for its German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus , who worked extensively in the fields of learning and memory. MORE >>

For many tech billionaires, the pleasures of easy money, private jets, and business empires was a distant dream when they landed their first job. Many of these billionaires started off small and worked their way up the entrepreneurial ladder. Click image to enlarge). Uncategorized Billionaires jobs Technology MORE >>

A bit early to speak of this, but I do have some tentative plans. The map below is indicative of my planned Summer 2012 trail. Now obviously, I can't do this by myself and I'll perhaps hold on for sometime to find people who want to join in. For now my plans are to do the first three destinations over weekends preceding the actual trail - so hopefully those should be easy ones for folks to join me on. More about this in a few months. View Big Cat Trail 2012 in a larger map © Sumeet Moghe, 2009. fb bigcattrail MORE >>

by AJ George. For some PowerPoint projects you may find that you would like to line up elements in a certain way and that having guides on the slide would be useful. In the steps that follow I will show you how to make guides visible, and (because there is only one horizontal and one vertical guide that intersect in the center by default) how to add extra guide lines. Show the Guides & Ruler  Click the View tab and, from the Show area, select Guides. Two guides appear on the slide by default (one vertical, the other horizontal). Select Ruler from the Show area of the View tab. MORE >>

We’re entering an era of unprecedented opportunity. The economy added 244,000 jobs in April, and according to the second quarter Kauffman Economic Outlook survey, 70 percent of respondents see hope for one key factor during the next three years: employment growth. Even though the Economic Policy Institute states that at this rate of job growth it will take until the fall of 2016 for unemployment to come back down to where it was before the recession, members of Gen Y have their chins up and are remaining more positive than employees overall. Pepsi partnered with MTV to encourage U.S. MORE >>