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Podcasting for Learning
Just as you can play great, horrible and forgettable songs on your iPod, you can play great, horrible and forgettable learning podcasts on that same device. Over the past 18 months, corporate learning departments have contributed to an acute rise in both interest and deployment of podcasts for learning. We’ve tracked significant growth in the…
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Best Practices: CLO as Diplomat
With two decades of experience as a learning leader, Time-Warner Cable CLO Pat Crull has been practicing successful CLO habits even before such terms were coined. With a background in clinical psychology, including a doctorate from Northwestern University, Crull knew plenty about how people learn but less about how businesses earn. She soon saw the…
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Life as We Know it is About to Change
According to a recent article in Science News, an international team of researchers is developing a free, multilanguage, Web-based encyclopedia that will aggregate all data about every living species known — currently 1.8 million — and continue to add information about life forms as they are discovered. Dr. James Edwards, executive director of the project,…
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Blended Delivery: Mixing Modalities
Today, blended learning refers to the range of delivery options available to learning professionals, including classroom-based, instructor-led training; synchronous or asynchronous e-learning; portable technologies and on-the-job training. With so many al
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Ethics Training: New Needs, New Times
How does the leader of an organization set an example and instill ethics into the fabric of everyday business? How does an organization go from just a profitable company to one that is also values-based? It’s no wonder ethics training is becoming mandato
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Advanced Technical Training Might Mean Going Back to Basics
Industries such as pharmaceuticals, construction and engineering have one thing in common: At some level, all require hands-on technical training.
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Managing Director, Professional Development
BAI, the financial services industry’s leading professional organization, is seeking a Managing Director, Professional Development to lead our St. Louis based Professional Development Group. If you are a thought leader with significant experience in trai
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Technology Managers Benefit from Budgeting Course at UC Irvine
For those individuals in technical managerial roles who seek to improve their budgeting and finance skills (or acquire them), there is now a class at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine).












