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Improve Your Training 6 Ways This October and November

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:05:07 -0400

What would help you be a better learning professional? This fall in the Washington D.C. area, take the next steps in your development. From designing learning to organizational strategy building, these upcoming programs were created specifically to address some of the needs professionals like you have right now. With a consistently high approval rating from attendees, you can be sure that you're learning from the best.

Now the question is: what do you need help with this fall?

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HTML 5

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:37:59 -0400

Flash VirtualWorld

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:37:18 -0400

Apply for Financial Aid

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:45:06 -0400

We have simplified the process of filling out the FAFSA. You can follow each section all of the way through for a comprehensive set of instructions.

Setting Up a Vaccination Clinic

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:24:34 -0400

Since the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus emerged in April 2009, scientists, public health professionals, and educators have discovered much about the way the virus is transmitted, who is most usceptible to serious complications, and how sick most people become when infected. Although the virus continues to cause mild to moderate illness in most people, it continues to disproportionately affect young people between the ages of 5 and 24 years old.

Learning 2.0: Make Learning Deliver

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:08:03 -0400

"This month's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks 'What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?'

"I suspect a lot of the X 2.0 discussions have within themselves elements of Web 2.0. Instantiating Learning for X, we also notice the same shades."

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If You Think Education Is Expensive, Try Ignorance

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:40:56 -0400

"Training is expensive. And in today's economy, the last thing that most businesses want is more expense.

"On the other hand, as the saying goes, 'If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.' And the last thing that most procurement organisations want is to leave potential savings simply lying on the table because purchasing employees didn't have the skills to secure them."

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Good eLearning vs. Bad eLearning

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:55:53 -0400

"You know how it is. You are invited to deliver a keynote at a conference and you have to come up with a topic and a title at short notice, so you think of something that sounds interesting (you hope) and that will give you scope for an interesting talk."

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Classroom Trainer Resistance to eLearning

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:55:19 -0400

"Many reports coming in on last week's ASTD International Conference and Expo -- in my world coming from instructional designers and trainers making use of technology and social media -- expressed surprise at the prevalence of attendees who, to quote Cammy Bean, are 'Traditional training people for whom most of this eLearning stuff is kind of exotic and/or quite overwhelming and threatening.'"

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Why eLearning is Recession-Proof

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:57:11 -0400

"These are tough times, what with the number of jobs that are disappearing and the millions of people who are being laid off. What’s more, entire industries are being affected and organizations forced to close down. The dreams that were built on flimsy foundations have now come crashing to the ground and we’re being forced to reevaluate our spending habits and the way we manage money. But even amidst all this chaos, there are some industries that are recession proof, and education is one among these.