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There is no question that telework (working at home using cutting-edge communications technology) and e-learning are symbiotic. E-learning makes telework more effective; telework supports e-learning initiatives for a geographically dispersed audience. So earlier this week, an edict by CEO Marissa Mayer that orders all her Yahoo employees back into the office on a regular basis took the business and technology…
Mary Miller of First Data Financial Services believes that there are three main challenges posed by blended learning: 1) Learners can get lost in a maze of navigating through all the parts; 2) Learners can get exasperated by redundancies/conflicts within the system; and 3) Learners can get overwhelmed when they don’t get any help staying on track. She says that…
Meet Leland D. Melvin – Associate Administrator for Education for NASA, Astronaut, Learning! 100 Award Winner, holder of the Platinum Learning! Professional Certification. Leland D. Melvin is the Associate Administrator for Education for NASA. In this role, he leads the agency in inspiring interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. Leland Melvin also chairs the Education Coordinating Committee,…
Happy Holidays everyone! And once again, congratulations last year’s teams for being selected a Learning! 100 organization. We invite you to recognize your team’s accomplishments again this year by applying to the Learning! 100 awards program, which is open now, and will stay open until March 2013. Note that this year, the awards ceremony will be in Anaheim, CA. …
When I spotted this YouTube video, I thought that this would be a great video to watch for both content, as well as to see a demonstration of how Google+ Hangouts works in a discussion format. So with that as a preamble, join Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun as they discuss the…
Speed-writing seems to have the same psychology behind it as an old attention-focusing trick used by some presenters and sales people. For example, if you are talking with someone, and then that person picks up a pen, looks down at a document that he or she is showing you, your eyes and attention will be drawn to the movement of…