Social Networking: A Force for Development?

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Marjorie Derven

Social networking can address this issue and support the need for learner involvement by narrowing the gap between learning and application. A learning solution Social networking, the broad term that encompasses wikis, blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other tools, is idea... More »

Entrepreneurial Learning: Secret Ingredients for Business Success

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Mike MacPherson

In 1954, a milkshake machine salesman named Ray Kroc negotiated a deal with the McDonald brothers to take their restaurant concept national. In the first franchise, opened near Kroc's home in Chicago, he and partner Art Jacobs attempted to perfect important aspects of t... More »

The Roots of Innovation

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Michael Laff

When Pure Digital released its handheld video camera - the Flip - skeptics believed that the product, with its basic functions and no zoom lens, should instead be named Flop. Yet, the company's founders held firm, convinced that even in a gadget-obsessed world, there ex... More »