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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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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education and Training
The idea of replacing humans with computers has preoccupied science fiction writers for generations. Indeed, when most people think about artificial intelligence, they first think about representations of artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood films, such as A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner or more recently, Her. Of course, in reality, AI is already present in our lives […]
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mLearning for Medical Interns
It is now commonplace for patients to search their symptoms and even to arrive at their doctor’s office prepared to offer advice on potential courses of treatment. The availability of medical information online reflects the fact that the medical profession recognized the value of online learning early on. Medical professionals were also among the earliest […]
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mLearning for Low Wage Workers
Low-wage workers, concentrated in the service industry, have the lowest retention rates of all workers. McDonald’s, for example, hires an estimated 1 million workers per year with a 150% turnover rate. While their workforce may be smaller, other fast-food restaurants also hire thousands of workers each year and report similar turnover rates.
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Turning Digital Distraction into Digital Learning
In 2014, Science published a study on digital distraction that reached a potentially alarming conclusion—a majority of people do not enjoy having time to themselves free of their electronic devices. Indeed, the authors of the study discovered that many of their participants were so agitated when left alone in a room with nothing but their […]
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Training for the Future: What We Can Learn from Siri
Siri is the voice-activated personal assistant built into to Apple’s mobile devices. In theory, you ask and Siri responds. With Siri, you can use your voice to send messages, schedule appointments and acquire information. As Siri’s name suggests (reverse it, and it turns into Iris—the divine messenger in Homer’s Iliad), Siri was rolled out with […]
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