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E-Learning, Universities, and Professional Development – A Disruption that is just Beginning

E-learning is having a large impact on the education sector, at all levels. It will continue to do so. Rather than resist, professional educators need to understand where it works and where it does not. To do that well, they must first move from a teacher-centered to a learner-centered approach to education.

Internet Learning: A Positive Future or a Coming Consumer Nightmare?

Internet Learning: A Positive Future or a Coming Consumer Nightmare?

Mirasee, a Montreal Canada based e-learning strategist and provider of guidance to future on-line learning providers published its annual report of the state of the industry last week.

I have been following Danny Iny and his crew for over a year now. I think that Mirasee is among the most knowledge of the on-line learning service providers. But as useful as this report is, I think it is possible to go deeper and provide us with a more realistic picture of what is happening in this market.

Most Soft Skill Training = A Waste of Organizational Dollars

Most Soft Skill Training = A Waste of Organizational Dollars

Most organizations waste the money they spend on soft skill training. It is not their fault. Changing behavior on-the-job is not a simple thing. People work with others. Together, they create what social psychologists call “interlocked patterns of repetitive behavior” to get work done.

Business computer software, which structures the way they work together, reinforces these social patterns.

When one person in such a patterns changes his or her behavior, the others have to change too. They normally don’t, which means the person changing behavior reverts back to old behavior. This is called the behavior extinction effect.

If person making the change is committed to doing so, they often begin to look for a new job, where this extinction effect will not occur.

So organizational investment in soft skill training really requires a commitment to larger organizational culture change if it is to pay off. Few organizations do this.

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