Extreme downsizing is what management professor Wayne Cascio says companies engage in when they cut their workforce by more than 20 percent. To date, almost 40 percent of the United States's largest companies practiced extreme downsizing during the Great Recession. Down... More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives

Human Performance Improvement , Jobs , Trends

As the incoming tide of informal learning advances on the tiny beach blanket of formal learning and seems likely to engulf it, learning professionals are raising many questions, including the most basic: what is informal learning anyway, and how does it fit into a big p... More »

Learning & Development

Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Informal Learning

Classroom decorum has gone the way of the schoolmarm and the dunce cap, and "good riddance," some say. Behavior such as eating in class, arriving late, and challenging the teacher has become commonplace in high school and college classrooms, and increasingly so in corpo... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Social Learning , Training and Development - General

Higher Education

George Orwell was dead wrong. Big Brother is not watching us as much as we are watching each other. Not only are more people using social media tools more often to communicate and collaborate, but their use is changing us. Instead of losing privacy to the government or ... More »

Learning Technologies

Informal Learning , Social Learning , Trends

For most of the seven years that ASTD has been collecting data on the state of the training industry, the use of classrooms for delivery of training has been dropping steadily. Displacing brick and mortar classrooms are myriad web- and computer-based delivery vehicles, ... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Informal Learning , Mobile Learning , Social Learning , Training and Development - General