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Leadership in Creative Industries
Historically, creativity and industry were rarely words uttered in the same breath. Creativity has even been seen as the antithesis to industry. In the 21st century, however, the concepts of the “creative class,” “creative economy” and “creative industries”—in large part due to the influence of business leaders, like Richard Florida and Richard E. Caves—continue to […]
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eLearning Career Guide #5: Graduate Certificates
If you want to really nail down the best credentials to launch or enhance your career as an eLearning professional, you’ll want to get either a graduate certificate or master’s degree in instructional design and technology. Not all of the programs out there with those words in their titles have as much of a focus […]
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eLearning Career Guide #4: Undergraduate Education
Launching or enhancing your career as an eLearning professional necessarily involves making sure you have the right education under your belt. This article will take a look at both undergraduate and graduate options.
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eLearning Career Guide#3: More Portfolio Tips and Examples
In this current series of articles, I’m providing some guidance to those who want to launch or enhance their eLearning careers. In the last article, I highlighted the importance of developing your eLearning portfolio – an essential self-marketing piece that can really make or break your efforts. I’d like to continue to with portfolio development […]
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eLearning Career Guide#2: The Portfolio
An essential step in launching or enhancing your career as an eLearning professional is to put together a stellar portfolio of your past work. This can and should take a significant amount of time and effort. You want the world to see what you’ve done, and you want to present it in as compelling a […]
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eLearning Career Guide #1: Nailing the Interview
If you’ve decided that you want to make a career in corporate eLearning, good for you. The industry is poised for significant growth that shows no signs of letting up. I think it’s important for those contemplating the corporate eLearning career path to know a few things about what’s in store as you try to […]
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The (Unfulfilled) Promise of mLearning
mLearning is hot. If you Google corporate mobile learning, you get 114 million results, but only 416,000 if you Google corporate mLearning, which only goes to show that the nomenclature is still in the process of changing and settling down. There is a lot of writing going on all around the Internet related to corporate […]
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eLearning as a Profit Center
Companies everywhere are expecting more and more from their learning departments. They want them to equip the workforce with the skills and knowledge they need to better achieve business goals, and to prove that learning initiatives are having the kind of positive, quantifiable impacts intended. If you can make this happen at your company, then […]
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eLearning: Strange Facts and Anomalies
Now that 2015 is well under way, it’s time to take a peek at some of the statistics related to eLearning that tend to come out around the end of one year and the beginning of the next. The intention of those articles is typically to identify trends that are shaping the eLearning field. Unfortunately, […]
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Extended Roles in the Health Care Sector Generate Satisfaction
Expanded role and extended role are terms sometimes used interchangeably but in fact, they mean two different things. In a nursing context, for example, an expanded role typically refers to the broadening of a nurse’s work within her profession (e.g., a nurse carrying out a wider range of nurse duties). An extended role, by contrast, […]
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Skills Escalation in Retail
Around the world, people flock to Ikea stores to purchase inexpensive modern household products, which are designed to be assembled at home either by the buyer or, for a fee, by an assembly service. While most people are familiar with Ikea’s products and philosophy, the company’s approach to training is also the result of thoughtful […]
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Role Extension and Skills Escalation
There is a tendency to think about career development in a linear way. In other words, we typically imagine going up the ladder more often than we imagine developing parallel skills at various stages of development. Role extension and skills escalation, especially when adopted for entry-level workers, hold the potential to radically transform how people […]
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