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Move Over Content: Context is King!
I can still remember the early days of teaching technology. During the word-processing section of a PC Literacy course, an actual gasp would be heard as the text and cursor magically moved to the next line. That was a different time in our instructional journey. Content was king, and you couldn’t have enough of it.…
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Learning Games: The Creative Side of E-Learning
Online games have presented organizations with an opportunity to communicate new learning concepts, terminologies and technology information in ways that learners often find engaging and involving. When learning is fun, learners look forward to the experience. With learning games, adoption takes place more readily, without the learner feeling the pressure of completing yet another task…
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Customer Education: Expanding Revenue and Driving Business Growth
High-performing learning organizations are twice as likely to offer customer or channel partner education. These companies understand that learning enables top-line growth and increases shareholder value.
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Empowering Sales Forces: Advanced Strategies
It’s challenging to provide learning to sales professionals, but it can be done with the right approach. Understanding that development is key to sales success can motivate sales professionals to learn.
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Microsoft: Promoting Product Preparation
Software giant Microsoft, which provides operating systems for many–if not most–of the world’s approximately 600 million personal computers, frequently releases new products. This steady stream of rollouts has been a constant test for the company’s learning and development teams, particularly in delivering content to sales and support professionals who need to know product characteristics almost…
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Learning That Leads to High Performance
A survey of 285 learning executives conducted by Accenture Learning clearly demonstrated a link between the most effective learning organizations and the overall performance of the companies they serve. Companies that demonstrate high-performance learning characteristics–about 10 percent of the survey sample–also return better revenue and profit growth compared to their competitors and industry peers. These…
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Effective Education for the Diverse Workplace
Helping a diverse workforce perform as a team is a great challenge. Blended learning integrates face-to-face settings with technology to enable collaboration and strengthen community.
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Halliburton: Going the Distance in Corporate Education
“We trained over 850 global subject-matter experts on SAP using Interwise technology virtually,” said Mike Saidy, project manager of Interwise technology at Halliburton. “These people were in over 100 countries worldwide. All of the virtual training was conducted in Houston (the site of Halliburton’s corporate headquarters) by subject-matter experts, and no travel was involved at…












