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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
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The State of e-Learning
Falling stock prices, failed LMS implementations, poor course completion rates, slashed corporate budgets. In the face of all that, will e-learning be remembered as nothing more than a late salvo in the dot-bomb campaign?
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Environment – The CLO’s Role: Balancing the Learning Mix in Outsourced Environments
With the evolving development of the information-based economy and the increasing need for high-performance employees, intellectual capital is becoming the most critical resource in the corporation. This means that those companies that do the best job of empowering their workers through education and training are most likely to enjoy the highest levels of economic success.…












