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

Performance Learning Productivity

They don't make pretty reading to me (despite at least one analyst upgrading LTRE to 'buy' – but analysts don't have a great track record for picking fundamental weaknesses in business models - just think back to the late-1990s first Internet bubble burst or to the more recent failure to see the business model weaknesses in the sub-prime fiasco).

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KARL KAPP – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS (PART 1)

Learnnovators

It comprises stimulating discussions with industry experts and product evangelists on emerging trends in the learning landscape. Karl: Gamification, as a term, has only been around for about five years (2008), and so I think the entire “gamification” concept is still an emerging trend with its best days still ahead.

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Karl Kapp – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators (Part 1)

Learnnovators

It comprises stimulating discussions with industry experts and product evangelists on emerging trends in the learning landscape. Karl: Gamification, as a term, has only been around for about five years (2008), and so I think the entire “gamification” concept is still an emerging trend with its best days still ahead.

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Looking Back at 2007

Tony Karrer

Shortly, I'll be responding to this month's Big Question with my Predictions for Learning in 2008. And if you are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content Management, etc. Discussion will emerge/increase around the next generation of LMS that focus on quick access to content, search, web 2.0

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9 Ways to Develop Talent for Tomorrow’s Economy

General Assembly

In our report Bridging the Gap (PDF), General Assembly explored policy alternatives for students pursuing accelerated learning programs, including the expansion of individual tax deductions for education. Liz also worked in several capacities on Barack Obama’s primary and general election campaigns in 2007–2008. based law firm.

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Who’s Leading Innovation?

CLO Magazine

Late 2008 not only marked the beginning of the Great Recession, but a pivotal moment when many CEOs began neglecting innovation — the engine that drove their organizations’ growth up to that point — to focus on cost-cutting, retrenchment and, in many instances, survival. Organization-wide commitment matters.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Hey! Editors of "Educational Researcher".Get a FREAKING CLUE!!!!!

Mark Oehlert

Main | Brenda Brathwaite, the Media and the Seduction of the Innocent » March 31, 2008 Hey! March 31, 2008 in Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Hey! The alternative is that this is it.we Get a FREAKING CLUE!!!!!