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Learning to the Rescue: The FDIC’s Thom Terwilliger
Little did Thom Terwilliger know that when he took the job as chief learning officer for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., or FDIC, in 2007, his first major challenge would be front-page news. About a year and a half after Terwilliger started as the top learning professional for the independent government agency responsible for providing…
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Corporate Classrooms: Adapting to Change
In 2010, the American Society for Training & Development published an article with the headline, “Disappearing Act: The Vanishing Corporate Classroom.” The classroom’s demise, the article stated, would come from a host of factors: “Displacing brick and mortar classrooms are myriad Web- and computer-based delivery vehicles, from simple CDs to elaborate corporate portals, and simulations…
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The Classroom Evolves In Academia
Harvard Business School is known for drilling students through more traditional case-based classrooms. In such a classroom, a professor stands at the front of a room, and students sit in a modified lecture-style environment — think intimate auditorium with rows of long, U-shaped tables. But in 2008, the school began to rethink its coursework. It…
















