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The Challenges of Executive Education

Training Industry

Participants play an active role in their training, and their personal investment in the learning process has grown. These challenges include the transformation of the traditional learning model, the need to be agile and the existence of communities of practice. Training is an essential career development lever.

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E-Learning 101: Straightforward Answers to Fundamental Questions

ATD Learning Technologies

Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act requires that electronic communication for the federal government be accessible to individuals with disabilities who use assistive technology, such as a person using a screen reader. E-learning falls under electronic communication and should be made to be accessible.

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Highlights From Day Two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Symposium

CLO Magazine

I attended DAU’s Learning Road Map for the Future where Christopher Hardy, director of the Global Learning and Technology Center of Defense Acquisition University, detailed how DAU provides learning and job support assets needed to fill the gaps supporting learning on the job for over 125,000 employees.

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Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (3)

Jay Cross

Communities of practice. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. Chefs and workers in the kitchen who aspire to be chefs are a community of practice. Newcomers learn the ropes from working alongside veterans.

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Towards Maturity 2015 benchmark shows just how much we've got stuck

Clive on Learning

Learning professionals do not want to be associated with damaged goods. We need a new push based on a simple premise - bringing what is working in our personal lives into the workplace. The future is not single-hit e-learning any more than it is single-hit classroom.

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Through the Workscape Looking Glass

Jay Cross

Corporate learning must expand from focusing on the classroom, which provides at best 10% of learning, to the entire organization where learning while doing is the rule. Helping an experienced person impacts the bottom line immediately. This species needs special handling, sometimes including personal service.

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