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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 5 Growth, Stagnancy, or Decline

Infopro Learning

Two vital techniques for grooming tomorrow’s leaders: Leadership Development: Corporate training expenditures are highest on leadership development,2 and for good reason: investing in tomorrow’s leaders today is a hallmark of sustainable business development. Cambridge University Press. Foong-ming, T.

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Show The Learner Visible Signs of Their Learning

Kapp Notes

Mastery learning provides an approach that recognizes that aptitude for learning may be more closely linked to time and perseverance than to abilit y (Bloom, 1971; Melton, 2008). Using modified mastery assignments to increase learning in business statistics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 4 (1976), pp. Melton, K.

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ASTD's Big Question for December 2008: New Learning

Kapp Notes

The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2008? I learn so much all the time from students, clients and colleagues, it is hard to narrow it down to just two or three things, but I'll try. Here are a few of the lessons I have learned. Then begin to design your mobile learning objects.

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Learning Pool Origins: Interview with Group CEO, Paul McElvaney

Learning Pool

After deciding that joining the family business wasn’t for him, Paul studied Communications at Ulster University. Following University, Paul undertook a postgraduate course at UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. Three children and a thriving business later, Paul and Louise remain in Derry. .

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

ABOUT BOB LITTLE (Senior Partner, Bob Little Press & PR). As the Senior Partner of Bob Little Press & PR , you have been providing business-to-business public relations (PR) services to many organizations in the ‘learning’ and ‘learning technologies’ industry for years. THE INTERVIEW: 1. Learnnovators: Hi Bob.

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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

Of course, Learning Tree International's business is selling face-to-face courses, but most of us will have had the Learning Tree catalogue 'brick' of courses dropping onto our desks on a regular basis for many years. Readers Digest is much older, having first rolled off the presses in 1922. in earnings compared to 2008.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with e's

My last blog post focused on the disruptive forces that are currently assailing businesses and the public sector. Again, this was a somewhat contentious speech, particularly as many teachers are traditionally minded, conservative in their approach, pressed for time and notoriously resistant to change. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

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