December 23, 2009 - by 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 »
October 23, 2009 - by Marcia Conner
Forming a committee to develop a social media strategy didn't seem right to Greg Matthews, director of consumer innovation at Humana. He saw advantages in encouraging the company's 28,500 employees to begin to incorporate new practices, and wanted to demonstrate an alte... 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 »
June 23, 2009 - by Bill Perry
One of the most powerful learning technologies on the market today is also one of the least understood. It's the learning content management system, or LCMS. The moniker LCMS closely resembles the acronym for learning management system, of course, and that has confused ... 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 »
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