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 »

M-Learning: The Future of Training Technology

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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 »

Entering the Mobile Zone

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Doug Stone

This is the story of one global Fortune 500 company that bravely went where few have gone before: the mobile zone. To date, MetaMedia Training International has supplied one major hotel chain with more than 900 handheld Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) devices to deliver... More »

Transforming Informal Learning Into a Competitive Advantage

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Julie Norquist Roy

For U.S. businesses, maintaining a competitive edge (or even just staying in business at all) is as complex as the rush of economic news stories bombarding us each day. Faced with keeping up with shorter information and product cycles, businesses require more effective,... More »

Best Practices for Facilitating Simulations

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Chris Musselwhite

We all know that the most powerful and lasting learning comes from the discovery associated with our direct experiences - when we act and then experience the consequences of our actions. It is what Peter Senge has dubbed, "the learning horizon." The dilemma, however, is... More »