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Education As We Know It Is Finished

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Horn in Forbes magazine. So says Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. As authors of Disrupting Class, a useful manifesto on how innovation will change "the way the world learns". There is a growing head of steam around changes to education systems around the world, largely driven by budget cuts.

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Back in blog seat - it's getting lively out there.

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I've also published a number of articles in printed journals/magazines and been remiss in posting up here due to the now confusing delay between writing. This is largely due to lots of activity in the day job and a preference for Twitter as a platform for comment and sharing of useful links etc. you can follow me on here).

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Onboarding staff in the 21st century

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The British Computer Society (BCS) and IT Training Magazine have published my article on how onboarding new staff can be transformed in terms of overall time to full productivity and dramatically reduced training costs. As the economy picks up the quality and efficiency of induction will matter more than ever. What do you think?

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Minister regrets lack of training - induction matters!

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According to the BBC, in an interview with Total Politics magazine:"I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of those skills," she adds.There has been criticism of the way in which ministers are parachuted into departments, often without any. Jacqui Smith.

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Get Real: Mission Critical E-learning

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Here's an article published in Learning Technologies magazine this week. I wrote it some time back (old world printing deadlines) failing to fully forward plan for some events, like Obama moving from Elect to Active president status last week.

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Up, up and away: E-learning in the travel sector

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Here’s a thought piece covering the use and value of e-learning in the travel sector – this one made the cover story of e.learning age magazine. Again, would welcome your comments. == Harnessing technology to build trust and improve customer care remains a priority for the travel sector.

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Home Sweet Office - the changing workspace

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Wired Magazine have run an interesting feature reminding us that with a functioning networked society the old assumptions of physically working alongside each other are rightly being challenged. But its interesting how slowly the notion of teleworking/telecommuting has moved into the mainstream.

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