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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.
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Collaborative Tools for e-Learning
When my colleague Padma Medury and I conducted a survey on collaborative technologies and groupware in 1990, little did we know the degree to which Web-based tools would reshape and elevate this field. We discovered conferencing and collaboration tools fo
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Enterprise Learning
On behalf of WebEx Communications Inc. and our training center team, I would like to welcome a new voice in enterprise learning, Chief Learning Officer magazine. The customers using our services for live enterprise training and learning are showing a tremendous demand to educate the enterprise, reduce costs and increase productivity. This learning spans not…
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VWR Takes Learning Around the World
One of the greatest challenges confronting companies with international operations is communicating and providing ongoing learning and development opportunities for employees dispersed throughout the world. This was the exact problem faced by VWR International, a leading worldwide distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture to the industrial, government, life science, education, electronics and pharmaceutical…
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Is Sales and Marketing e-Learning Giving You Customer ROI?
In 1999, PurchasePro spent a small fortune on instructor-led training (ILT) for sales, customer service, vendors and clients. They knew that e-learning suited their product well, yet e-learning wasn’t ready for (Web) primetime. ILT was still more valuable
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E-Learning: The Second Wave
The recent SmartForce/SkillSoft merger announcement created quite a buzz in the market and caused many of the industry’s leading analysts and investors to call me for my opinion on the transaction. Virtually every call started with the same question: What’s wrong with the e-learning industry? I wanted to share my answer with your CLO readers…
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College Credit for Corporate Training Makes Economic Sense
“Doing more with less”, “creating improved efficiencies”, “downsizing”, “right-sizing”, “trimming fat”, “curbing expenses”, and “streamlining processes” are among the buzzwords and catch-phrases that herald today’s business environment. They all point t












