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Are we tired of resilience?

Coorpacademy

In the wake of the crisis, the concept of resilience is talked about everywhere, especially in corporate culture. Introduced by Boris Cyrulnik, the concept of resilience states that it is possible to overcome a traumatic event, to draw strength from one’s misfortunes, and to “navigate through the torrents” (Boris C).

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Why Online Employee Orientation is important?

eFront

Here are some things that should be covered: Company history and culture. Follow by a brief history of the company and its mission statement, values and culture. Your e-learning orientation course can pick up right after that. A message from the CEO would be a good place to start. Career prospects.

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How to replace top-down training with collaborative learning (1)

Jay Cross

They have to keep up with a torrent of new products and services, not just their own but also their competitors’. The ease of sharing of information has lead to a cultural phenomenon, which relates to our topic at hand; people are used to being able to get the answers to their questions – to learn – of their own accord through.

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The silos start to tumble.

Learning with e's

The conference themes are also appetising, with e-portfolios, open libraries, cultural contexts for e-learning, digital literacy and e-inclusion all making an appearance. I have visions of midnight raids on unsuspecting farms and torrents of grain falling down from monstrously huge (and protected) storage areas.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Lets go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. The Chronicle article quotes Edward McCoyd who heads up the Online Piracy Working Group of the Association of American Publishers, "It is troubling that there is a culture of infringement out there."

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Keen as mustard?

Learning with e's

No, I am not making it up - but I thought, how very appropriate, given the wintry torrents of rain outside. and suggests that it's a conspiracy to destroy our culture and assault our economy. I am in the middle of reading Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur - in which he pours mustard all over Web 2.0, Well I never.

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Let's go ahead and solve the future of publishing right now.

Mark Oehlert

Turns out that there is this site, Textbook Torrents, that is using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of expensive textbooks. The Chronicle article quotes Edward McCoyd who heads up the Online Piracy Working Group of the Association of American Publishers, "It is troubling that there is a culture of infringement out there."

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