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Today I’m going to consider the wider implications of the benefits of learning and professional development in the current global economic environment.

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Several types of analysis are undertaken when using the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) strategy to learning program development.

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Changes in the world economy are forcing corporations to rethink how workers learn and to perform effectively. How do people learn? Why? What accounts for the upswing in interest in less formal learning? Does it work?
In the corporate context, learning is about mastering technical and social skills, and product knowledge. The focus is on [...]

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Changes in the world economy are forcing corporations to rethink how workers learn and to perform effectively. How do people learn? Why? What accounts for the upswing in interest in less formal learning? Does it work?
In the corporate context, learning is about mastering technical and social skills, and product knowledge. The focus is on [...]

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This month’s Big Question emerged from a short essay written by James Collins in LEARNING JOURNEYS Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders (2000). The author wrote:

A true learning person also has a “to-learn” list, and the items on that list carry at least as much weight in how one [...]

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This month’s Learning Circuits Blog Big Question emerged from a short essay written by James Collins in LEARNING JOURNEYS Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders. The author wrote:
A true learning person also has a “to-learn” list, and the items on that list carry at least as much weight in [...]

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In yesterday’s post I put forward some thoughts on terminal second-level examinations and the effect that faring poorly in these could have for young adults’ future lives.
I received a comment on the topic from a correspondent who asserted:
…does success in exams equal education? Exams are an outmoded assessment tool – success in them [...]

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Do we have practical solutions (as opposed to high aspirations) about the best way to serve students in the 21st century?

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Today’s blog post is not so much about e-learning or learning and development but rather more about education in general. Whether it’s the Leaving Certificate (the final course in the Irish secondary school system), SATs in the US, O- and A-Levels in the UK, or le bac in France, I’m sure you are familiar [...]

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I believe that to glibly state that “it’s not the end of everything” simultaneously devalues the emotional and psychological impact of performing poorly in such an important life event, and provides false hope that somehow it will be all right.

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