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Finding the Client-Vendor Balance
When outsourcing learning content and solutions, a transparent process ensures a successful relationship.
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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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Creating Value Through Self-Service Learning
The Internet has transformed the way we buy products and search for information, allowing instant access to what we need, when we need it. This self-service economy has expanded rapidly over the past few years. Now, it’s learning’s turn. The traditional classroom has proven inefficient and ineffective, and is being replaced by self-service learning. It…
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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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Factiva: Enabling Education On Demand
Factiva delivers thousands of wire service stories, newspaper articles, business publications and other documents to the global corporate business community. The company’s products and services help clients integrate news and business information into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence and leverage content in the knowledge management function. With 750 employees in 32 countries and…
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Business Process Outsourcing: Pros & Cons
Recent statistics forecast that the learning outsourcing market will grow to $20 billion over the next few years, but what does that mean for training and development? The pros and cons must be considered before taking the leap.
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SwedishAmerican Health System: Importing Learning Processes
SwedishAmerican Health System, a nonprofit organization with 15 facilities in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, has to educate about 3,000 employees on new techniques and products in the field of medicine, changing government and industry relations, and company policies and procedures. The health care company’s structure and available resources for workforce learning present further challenges…
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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.












