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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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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.

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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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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. A Tale of Two Keynotes We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. I argued that there are two kinds of disruption.

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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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Interesting Developments in 3D Learning and Collaboration Space

Kapp Notes

this moment, our information is far from complete but it's a pretty good bet that if you're a part of the Lab's market-development or business-development groups, you're already clearing out your desk this week. Most or all of the team that engineered the Second Life Enterprise product was let go not long after it went into production.At

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Why Startups Need To Redefine How They Hire & Retain Talent

QuoDeck

During the 2008 global financial crisis, Citigroup got a $20.5 Granted, technology has eased the way by making organisational knowledge more digitised and centralised, but that assumes a level of discipline on the part of an organisation that rarely exists in real life. Many companies hire indiscriminately when the going is good.

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