My first job after graduate school was working for the U.S. federal government in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). A few months into the job, a woman air traffic controller sued her boss and co-workers in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for creating a... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Beginner Level Content , Change Management , Curriculum Alignment , Faculty , Leadership Development , Management Development , Trends

Product Information CD-ROM TechSmith Corporation 517.381.2300 www.techsmith.com $1298 Training departments often overlook an important component of e-learning development: usability testing, specifically, pre-release testing. Even though good design is user centered and... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Assessment , Curriculum Alignment , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Managing the Learning Function , Measuring and Evaluating , Simulations and Serious Games

Curriculums benefit business in many ways. They are a major contribution to employee productivity and retention. Curriculums add value by reducing training costs and achieve performance goals by setting a true expectation for an employee to transfer learning to the job.... More »

Global Human Resources Development , Learning & Development

Business Impact , Competencies , Credentialing , Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General

During the last decade, there have been myriad articles, research studies, and discussions about how to carry out company-wide evaluation activities, often referred to as evaluation capacity building (ECB), effectively. Building evaluation capacity requires understandin... More »

Learning & Development

Assessment , Business Impact , Competencies , Curriculum Alignment , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

Here's a closer look at the features of self-paced, technology-based training that adults say are useful and the relationship between those course features and the learning strategies adults consistently use. The two previous articles in this series, discuss how adults ... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Advanced Level Content , Curriculum Alignment , Designing Learning , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General