Flying these days is officially more taxing than prison - at least you're not charged for pillows, blankets, food, and drink (1) in the slammer. In fact, you still don't even get your one phone call onboard. According to the Federal Communications Commission (2), cell p... More »

Learning Technologies

Innovation , Trends , World Events

The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlein Tarcher/Penguin When our parents criticized us for our laziness and slovenly ways, we thought they were off the mark. We now tar the emerging generation with same brush. Has anything changed? Heck, yes. We eventually amounted to som... More »

Learning & Development

Informal Learning , Innovation , Trends

The cable industry deals with large amounts of information to which employees must have easy access. DIRECTV's in-house and outsourced customer service agents serve its 18 million customers over the phone. Because of industry characteristics and its rapid growth rate, D... More »

Learning Technologies

E-Learning , Innovation , Managing Organizational Knowledge

Hilton Hotels Corp. training executive David Kervella thinks so. But classroom instruction can't effectively teach hotel employees how to interact properly with guests, he says. So Kervella, senior manager, brand education at Hilton, proposed that the giant hotel firm c... More »

Learning Technologies

E-Learning , Simulations and Serious Games , Trends

Linda Osgood has served as the director of the Human Capital Asset Management Division in the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service Office of Organizational Resources since 2004. She is responsible for acquiring, maintaining, developing, and divesti... More »

Human Capital

Global Workforce Development , Skills Gap