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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Countries that currently attract foreign students to their shores will need to brace for the impact on their local economies, as an ever-increasing proportion of students choose to gain an international education without leaving their home country. Offshoring will become the rule, not the exception.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Countries that currently attract foreign students to their shores will need to brace for the impact on their local economies, as an ever-increasing proportion of students choose to gain an international education without leaving their home country. Offshoring will become the rule, not the exception.

OER 225
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How AI Will Affect Instructional Design: My Thoughts Right Now

Experiencing eLearning

In a recent discussion on LinkedIn, someone talked about how we can now generate content in minutes with AI. It’s just like how some organizations have opted to offshore work and then been disappointed in the results. We can…but do we want to? Faster creation of lower quality content isn’t a win for the L&D field.

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How to Layoff Employees: 5 Best Practices for Doing a Reduction in Force

Avilar

Liberty Mutual, Ford, General Motors, Nokia, Amgen, LinkedIn and the Washington Post have all announced layoffs in recent weeks. Either way, pulling off a layoff or RIF is a tremendous undertaking. 2) Shore Up Job Descriptions. One company we know laid off two-thirds of their employees in one day. 3) Communicate.

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Seismic Shifts in Hiring

CLO Magazine

The 12-year-old full-service software development firm in Boulder, Colorado, used to offshore most of its development to Armenia, but in 2013 they decided it was time to bring the work back in-house. The classes include lectures, exercises, group projects, code reviews and unit tests, almost all of which is taught by Brothis.