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USG: Constructing Learning for a Mobile Workforce
The U.S. Gypsum Corp. (USG), which manufactures building materials like wall panels, ceiling tiles, and cement and composite boards, has a learning department comprised of two people: Mike Garber, USG’s director of training and development, and his training coordinator. Because the company has more than 13,500 employees at approximately 60 plants and 8,500 distribution centers…
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Agile Learning Environments: Enhancing Performance
Culture-changing challenges and technologies are driving the need for a reinvention of corporate learning. Integration, speed, reach and real-time connectivity are key to implementing a new learning paradigm.
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2005 Chief Learning Officer Learning In Practice Awards
Executives recognized for innovative learning solutions 2005 Chief Learning Officer of the YearFirst Place – Ted Hoff, Vice President, Learning, IBM 2005 Learning in Practice Award WinnersAdditional Learning in Practice Awards and their winners are: Achieving Impact First Place – Rob Lauber, Executive Director, Learning Services, Cingular Wireless Second Place – Kate Guersch, Senior Director,…
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Supercharge Your Blended Learning
Regular Trends columnist Nick van Dam and Mary Andrade explore how simulations can deliver results in the classroom.
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Portals: Enabling On-Demand Education
For years, learners have been leaving their workstations to attend training. Imagine the power of learning embedded into the workday. Through portal technology, development can take place at the time of need.
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Learning Applications: Education in Context
Knowledge drives business performance, and linking mission-critical information to each employee’s role and work is essential to success. The technology is available, but the model must adapt to changing needs.
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Wyndham International: Transforming Employees With Personalized Learning
In the hotel business, success hinges on an organization’s ability to provide quality service and ensure that each guest’s needs are met in a timely and courteous fashion. Wyndham International has taken that tenet to a new level by applying it to employee learning. With 22,000 employees to educate in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and…
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Formalizing Informal Learning
The process of learning isn’t changing, but the way we deliver and enhance it at an enterprise-wide level is. CLOs must rethink their organizational role to benefit from the rise of informal learning.












