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Classrooms or E-Learning, Instructors Remain Central
What happens to instructors and classrooms when an e-learning-based corporate university is formed? Do instructors follow buggy whips into oblivion? No, but the subtle shift in emphasis from training to learning affects the role of the instructor. Trainin
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The Learning Continuum: Filling in the Gaps
I find that many learning solutions are too focused on training. They emphasize the acquisition of knowledge, not solving the problems learners face when applying that knowledge.
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Documentum: Delivering Business Success Through Learning
Documentum, a provider of content management solutions, helps more than 3,000 large enterprises worldwide produce and maintain multimedia such as documents, Web pages and XML files through a sole shared content platform and repository. The company, which has 1,300 employees in North America and the Pacific Rim of Asia, was acquired in October last year…
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Alternatives for Measuring Learning Success
Don Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels are legendary in corporate education, but they’re not without detractors. Applying business methodologies like Six Sigma to learning programs helps drive strategic success.
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1-800-GOT-JUNK: Learning on the Grow
Hauling junk is big business. With 118 franchises, a number that grows weekly, roughly 1,000 corporate and franchise employees and a presence in 40 metropolitan areas in the United States, Vancouver-based removal company 1-800-GOT-JUNK has to deliver learning to its employees in a way that will fulfill their needs and support the growth pace of…
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Organizational Behavior and the Learning Process
In the past, employees focused on producing faster and making their actions more uniform. Today, people are powerful resources to leverage for success. A learning culture can help support critical creativity.
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These Things I Know to Be True…
I’ve penned this column for the past two years. In order to give way to a fresh voice and to enable me to devote more time to my online activities, this column will be my last. So looking back on two years’ worth of perspectives and opinions, these things
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Jane Hutcheson: Banking on a Learning Culture
Today’s learning must keep up with business demand and strategy. As vice president of learning and development for Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group, Jane Hutcheson ensures education is a top-priority investment.












