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Entries Tagged as 'economic downturn'

The Half-Life of the Knowledge Worker

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

Gen. Eric Shinseki
The US and EuroZone economies are in recession, China is ascendant, Russia is asserting it’s regional dominance, all the knowledge jobs are going to India, and it hasn’t stopped raining for two weeks.
As you know if you’re a regular reader [...]

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Tags: Knowledge Economy · New Asian Tigers · congnitive enterprise · definition of knowledge work · economic downturn · knowledge ecosystem · knowledge worker

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: A Salutary Excursus

July 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

And Lo! it came to pass that a friend of mine who would describe herself as a training practitioner based out of Hartford, CT. found herself bereft of employment, for the economic downturn that is called Recession was cast upon the land, and the days were dark.
Straitly was she in need of employment, [...]

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Tags: credit crunch · e-learning · economic downturn · elearning · learning · recession · sub prime sector

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn : Why isn’t the hammer falling?

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

After a weekend of listening to The Works by Queen, I’ve been trying to find a way to squeeze one of the album’s song titles into a blog post, and by Jove, I think I’ve got it!
Now read on…
Today I’m returning to one of my occasional topics - tracking the state of the e-learning industry [...]

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Tags: e-learning industry · economic downturn · recession

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: April Update

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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Tags: content development · credit crunch · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession