While fiscal cliff fears are receding and job growth continues to stabilize in 2013, unemployment is still hovering near 8 percent and more than half of recent college graduates are out of work. Even as businesses begin to abandon recent years’ aggressive cost-cut... More »

Learning & Development , Higher Education

Business Impact , Faculty , Training and Development - General

Over the past several years, Morehead State Universitys online course adoption (both hybrid and fully online) has grown considerably. In fact, nearly every course has an online component and purely online courses grew from 17 percent to 28 percent during the last fi... More »

Higher Education , Learning Technologies

E-Learning , Faculty , Managing the Learning Function

The challenge to creating an online continuing education program is how to move education content in a way that provides the best possible learning experience for the student, and the easiest all around management experience for the organization providing the conten... More »

Higher Education , Human Capital , Learning Technologies

Career Development , Delivering Training , E-Learning , Faculty

A closer look at the process for creating and launching a social learning website for surgical residency programs. In January 2009, I attended ASTD TechKnowledge, which emphasizes developing and managing e-learning. During the conference, I was introduced to a vast arra... More »

Higher Education

Advanced Level Content , Engagement , Faculty , Social Learning , Students

School has to change. The world has changed radically in the last 100 years while academia has stayed the same. This state of affairs must end or students will be learning increasingly irrelevant material taught using ever-more-outdated methods. Professors talk. Student... More »

Higher Education , Learning & Development

Coaching and Mentoring , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Faculty , Simulations and Serious Games , Students