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Jay Cross Memorial Award - 2017

Performance Learning Productivity

The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Real Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2017 is presented to Marcia Conner.

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course Skype has glitches and issues, and its new owner Microsoft is trying to extract value from users, but with a decent broadband connection Skype offers the real-time and asynchronous communications we could have only dreamed about 25 years ago. Google Scholar provides the library index and stack we could only dream about 40 years ago.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

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Despite moving some activity onto the Internet and getting its journalists blogging the company is still struggling. Alternatives to ILT events The Internet has not only changed the way we communicate but also our concept of 'freely available'. Learning Tree reported a decline of 31.2% in earnings compared to 2008.

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

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This is similar to almost any other formal education/test process, whether it’s an Microsoft MCSE or a Cisco CCNA technical ‘badge’ or a DMS or MBA business ‘badge’. rapport/Proefschriften/Willem_Vlakveld.pdf 2016 Internet Trends (2016). Once a new driver completes the formal education and passes the test, the road is theirs.

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Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises

Performance Learning Productivity

The challenges IT departments are facing with requests for access to public Internet personal social tools such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and hundreds of others is just a foretaste of what is to come in this arena. Employees will continue to demand access to the tools that best work for them in their personal learning environment.

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