Beef Up Your Training Toolbox With Web Tools

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ASTD Staff

To keep ideas fresh and learning engaging, training and development professionals need to constantly update, freshen, or create new training materials. Fortunately, there are free Internet tools that can aid in revitalizing supplemental training materials. What follows ... More »

A Harder Focus on the Global Classroom

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Darlene Christopher

Imagine yourself in a virtual classroom. The instructor puts an image of a game of cricket on the screen and says, "Sometimes dealing with pressures at work may feel like a game of 20/20 limited cricket, where you are chasing a score of 220 and it's the last over. You h... More »

Launching a Culture-Based Learning Product

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Brandon Taylor

Scenario: Edgar, an instructional designer, has been designing training materials in house for years. Finally, Edgar has been given an opportunity to launch the company's first international learning product, which will be used by employees from around the world. Edgar ... More »

The Changing Learning Landscape

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Paula Ketter

Do the words "social media" excite you or scare you? If it's the latter, then you had better find a way, quickly, to overcome your fears, because if you don't, the workplace will leave you behind. The ASTD Research report, "Transforming Learning With Web 2.0 Technologie... More »

Designing Virtual Immersive Environments

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Karl M. Kapp

The popularity of 3D virtual immersive environments for learning and collaboration continues to increase as more organizations realize the benefits of 3D for learning. The increased use of these environments creates a challenge for learning and development professionals... More »