Low- to medium-income Americans are learning how to use credit cards responsibly from a new interactive video game created for a Boston-based not-for-profit organization called Doorway to Dreams (D2D Fund). Players of "Celebrity Calamity" earn kudos for timely payments,... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Human Performance Improvement , Managing the Learning Function , Simulations and Serious Games , Social Learning

InsideBest BB&T BJC Healthcare Cbeyond CIGNA Corporation Datatel Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu G4S Wackenhut Grant Thornton LLP Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shi... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Business Impact , Economy , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Innovation , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General

"You never have enough money to do all the training you want to do," says Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer at Sun Microsystems. Sun releases a product or an update every day around which training could be built; but putting out a new program or ... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies , Senior Leaders & Executives

E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Selling Skills , Skills Gap , Training and Development - General

Case Studies

We know good facilitation skills: Ask don't tell, and encourage discussion among participants, not just between you and the participants. An instructor needs to play devil's advocate to challenge people's thinking. Yet when they move from the traditional classroom to th... More »

Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , E-Learning , Engagement , Managing the Learning Function

BB&T Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is among the nation's top-performing financial holding companies, with $137 billion in assets. Its bank subsidiaries operate approximately 1,500 financial centers that stretch from Indiana to Florida.... More »

Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , E-Learning , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Mobile Learning