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Will Customers Get Derailed by the e-Learning Shakeout?
The e-learning industry appears to be stabilizing in the recession. E-learning companies in business today have survived the dot-com meltdown and have adapted to the challenges of a recessionary market. It sure looks like there is a light at the end of th
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Front-Line Managers: Training’s Biggest Asset
In my last column, I discussed how every training department should establish itself as an investment, not an expense. Once this perspective is adopted, training programs need to align themselves with the organization’s best resources to guarantee success
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Fred Harburg–Connecting Motorola with Learning
If you have the chance to read Fred Harburg�s resume, you�ll find a rather impressive listing of positions. Prior to becoming chief learning officer and president of Motorola University, Harburg�s past boasts organizations like IBM, Saturn, Disney,
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NEC America: Connecting with Education
NEC America, a network communications company offering hardware, software, services and solutions, is a billion-dollar company operating in the United States, Canada and South America. Faced with a growing platform of employees and partners to train, in 2
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Cypress University Helps Grow Learning
When Cypress Semiconductor Corp., a provider of high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communication system applications, was faced with widespread company growth, it needed to redesign its training prog
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Corporate University Resources
There are a number of great publications and Web sites that cover the topic of building and maximizing the power of a corporate university: “Corporate Universities” by Jeanne C. Meister (McGraw Hill, 1998) “The Corporate University Handbook,” Mark Allen, Ph.D., Editor (Amacom, 2002) “The Corporate University: Learning Tools for Success” by The American Productivity &…
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Delta U Offers College Credits
Many corporate universities demonstrate their commitment to learning by offering college credits to their learners. Agencies such as the American Council on Education (ACE) offer companies the opportunity to submit their courses to apply to offer a recommendation for accredited college credits to the participants in approved corporate university courses. ACE offers national recognition of…
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Corporate Universities: A Powerful Model for Learning
Corporate universities were first created in the late 1980s as an enhancement to traditional training departments.












