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The Growing Role of Microlearning

CLO Magazine

And of course, companies are reinventing employee skills around digital disruption, unconscious bias, new leadership models, and dozens of operational topics. This first generation e-learning was revolutionary, and companies like Skillsoft, NetG, Click2Learn, DigitalThink — my alma mater — and others were born.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

They were all eclipsed by new technologies. Training technology focused on the person, not the group: PLATO introduced computer-based training; Stanford pioneered instructional television; teaching machines and programmed instruction enjoyed brief popularity. They all offered great products. They all fell behind the times.