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Can On-the-Job Training Make Up for the Failures of Business Education?

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programs, they score lower than students in every other major. The Atlantic got into the same game back in 2006 with an article proclaiming the majority of business studies, well, fluff. What do you think, are business programs failing to teach reasoning and critical thinking?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Profiles of a Twentysomething and a Fiftysomething Learner

Learning Visions

Shes participated in webcasts for work, but has never given one herself. Shes taken online continuing education classes to maintain her various professional licenses. I take continuing ed all the time for all of my license. Most of the time I do it online. It’s so much more convenient! Susie" graduated from college in 2003.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning

Learning Visions

Your summaries of books, webcasts and webinars are always so thorough. Also, an interesting blog posting titled Retirement Changes Dramatically over the Years stated, the age of retirement in the US is actually dropping from age 74 in 1910 to about 59 in 2006.

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