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How L&D is helping the manufacturing industry address a skills shortage

Learning Pool

This new breed of worker is hard to find and challenging to keep. To retain knowledge workers businesses need to offer regular upskilling and career development opportunities. Big businesses typically have multiple manufacturing sites.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 27, 2021

Mike Taylor

But Zoom calls all day are not going to create work environments where knowledge workers can deal with complex problems or create innovative solutions. Check it out for some great sites and apps for live and remote teaching. The key to distributed work is social learning.”.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

I was really glad to see it grow to become one of the Top eLearning Sites. And the system itself is growing with sites like Social Media Informer. Top eLearning Sites? And it’s going to become much better in the new year as it moves over to the next generation platform. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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How to Scale Your Learning Efforts While Improving the Learner Experience

Docebo

They need to know how to discover relevant content quickly and this is increasingly vital for today’s knowledge worker. In fact, almost 40% of employees go to Google before asking a co-worker or using their employer’s learning technology. But the Learning Platform isn’t always their first port of call.

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. Here are some ideas on designing learning that encourages activity other than sitting: Have you organized a full day, on site workshop? Contribute to the quality of life of our learners.

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. Here are some ideas on designing learning that encourages activity other than sitting: Have you organized a full day, on site workshop? Contribute to the quality of life of our learners.

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Move over, blue- and white-collar jobs: The workforce color spectrum is expanding

CLO Magazine

Or the construction worker using sophisticated imaging tools to prepare a site for a new wind farm. Or the allied health professional who will be most effective if they can apply data science-driven insights to their work tracking positive COVID-19 test rates. None of these are really white- or blue-collar jobs.

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