KnowledgeCity

AUGUST 17, 2020

Many organizations still struggle to discover which practices related to managing remote employees work most effectively for their teams. In fact, Nicholas Bloom , Professor of Economics at Stanford University, has said in his TedxTalk that working from home should be considered “future-looking technology” from a business standpoint.

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Web Courseworks

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

In an email response, Deb Adair, Director of Quality Matters, called it “ Social Presence,” writing: “Social facilitation effects, for instance, aren’t as powerful in [an] online class. Try Skype or free Google video conferencing to build social presence and community by going LIVE. Provide a mixture of media.

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Edume

MARCH 19, 2020

And a two year study carried out by Stanford University professor Nicholas Bloom found that telecommuters “took shorter breaks, had fewer sick days, and took less time off” - working from home enabled them to work “a true full-shift versus being late to the office or leaving early multiple times a week”. Their number one reason cited?

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations.

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