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Cliff Purington: Education Blasts Off at Rockwell Collins
Spend a few minutes with Cliff Purington, director of learning and development for Rockwell Collins, and you’ll meet a different kind of chief learning officer. Purington’s got the right pedigree—reared in organizational development—and demonstrable talen
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Web Conferencing: The Future of Training
Web conferencing is no longer the exclusive tool of Fortune 500 companies and major consulting firms. With little more than a Web browser, an Internet connection and a credit card, even small firms and nonprofit organizations can hold conferences and trai
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It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over: The Beginning of E-Learning
After the people of London had experienced devastating attacks in World War II and their spirits were flagging, Winston Churchill rallied English citizens by saying, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, th
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Avanade Inc.: Leaders in Technology
Founded in April 2000, Avanade is the premier technology integrator for Microsoft solutions in the enterprise and a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Global in scale, Avanade already employs more than 1,500 people in 13 countries, including 1
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Tech Trends Impacting E-Learning
Do you remember what you paid for a computer in 1985? If you bought a screamer with 512K of RAM and a 20-MB hard drive, you paid about $4,000. Today a PC with 256 megabytes of RAM and a 30-gigabyte hard drive costs a mere $600. This is proof of the techno
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The Regence Group: Ensuring Education Through Technology
Providing health coverage for more than 3 million people, The Regence Group is made up of four health plans located in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. The company employs more than 6,600 people and collected $6.4 billion in total premiums in 2002.
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Circuit City: Plugging Into Education
As the second-largest consumer electronics retailer in the United States, Circuit City must keep pace with the rapid change of technology. Innovations in digital technology have significantly increased new product introductions in everything from digital
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Using Technology to Measure Learning
During the past few decades, employer demand has shifted toward workers with higher education credentials, as evidenced by the higher wages paid to those with a college degree. In addition to this increase in entry qualifications, the knowledge required t











