August 19, 2011 - by Darleen DeRosa
We frequently hear about marathon virtual meetings or v-meetings, some of which last a full day, that quickly lose focus and end up being a waste of everyone's time. Unfortunately, many leaders have never been trained on best practices for v-meeting management. Given th... More »
February 19, 2011 - by Julie Brink
In its purest form, mobile learning (m-learning) is micro learning: training tidbits delivered via a mobile device such as a smartphone, MP3 player, netbook, Kindle, or iPad. M-learning is also predicted to be one of the top trends in the learning field in 2011. For the... More »
August 23, 2009 - by Marcia Conner
Stephen Hart, a corporate trainer specializing in recruitment and management training, read about Twitter in a computer magazine. He questioned the value of the "microblogging" tool and its 140-character messages. Yet he was curious and signed on. After a month of dippi... More »
April 23, 2009 - by ASTD Staff
To one expert, the future of learning is a kind of workplace community. For another, it's a new application of social media to an existing business process. Others call it simply "learning 2.0" or "social learning." Despite this apparent name game, nearly every learning... More »
February 20, 2009 - by Marci Powell
Have you ever taken a different route than planned, only to discover the drive was far more rewarding? On a trip halfway across America, we took one route to reach the West Coast and found it boring and tedious. On the way back, we took a different route that surprising... More »
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