A Leadership Skills Gap?

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Dean Smith

As leaders struggle to ensure the long-term viability of their organizations in a volatile economy, a recent study from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) reports that a glaring gap exists between the leadership skills organizations have now and the ones they will... More »

Buyer Beware

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Diane Valenti

E-learning today involves enough moving parts - instructional design, graphic design, sound design, and programming - that it can be very difficult to know everything necessary to ensure that your e-learning vendor delivers a quality product. At times, it can feel like ... More »

Smartphones Make IBM Smarter, But Not As Expected

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Nabeel Ahmed

Although mobile phones have become an extension of the workplace, questions persist about how organizations can best leverage them to improve employee performance and development. To answer some of these questions, IBM conducted a study to examine how its employees actu... More »

Because You Can’t Learn to Ride a Bicycle From a Book

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Clark Aldrich

Educational simulations are a broad genre of immersive learning simulations focused on increasing participants' mastery level in the real world. They differ from computer games in that their goal is not to be fun for participants (although they do engender a level of en... More »

Base of Support: Providing Participant Guides for Online Learning

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Nanette Miner

When moving from classroom-based training to the online environment, most instructional designers do away with the participant guide, thinking, "Who would use a participant guide while sitting alone at their desks?" This may be the primary reason why online learning com... More »