Developing Training With What You Carry In Your Pocket

By Kaliym Islam

Web video, as a means to deliver educational content, is clearly an idea whose time has come.

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Learning While Online, Instead of Wasting Time

By Marcia Reynolds

How much time do you spend each week reading blog posts, scanning articles, and rushing through e-books to get the highlights?

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Why Not an International Day of Work Independence?

By Michael  Kroth

I wish you could have felt the emotions I did my last day of work. Excitement, fear, anticipation, hope. Mostly a sense of freedom. I felt alive! I was leaving a company after 22 ½ years to pursue other interests. The job was fine and the company a place I still remember fondly but I was ready for a new adventure. I had no idea what would happen.

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The Next Big Epiphany in Mobile Learning

By Michael  Kroth

I walked into the power plant training room. Facing me were seven men. Each looked like the kind of hands-on craftsman who really knew what he was doing. The room pounded with the sound of the electricity-making. Coal was being converted into power. Turbines were rumbling.

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The Mobile Workforce Will Revolutionize Your Industry

By Michael  Kroth

To really consider the potential impact of workforce mobility open your mind to possibilities you might not have considered. Right now drone planes are flown by pilots who are hundreds of miles away. Google is experimenting with cars that drive themselves. Imagine a few years from now when truck drivers will struggle their rigs into first gear from a place hundreds of miles away. Ever hear of mechatronics? It’s engineering disciplines working together to create technology that makes it possible for even tractors to get themselves around without someone aboard. So in the future we should be able to plow, fly, or move semis around the world while the farmer, pilot, or truck driver sits safely at home. Extend your imagination to every field. Car repair. Personal massages. Police officers giving out tickets via holograms from the safety of the police station. A few years from now will anyone need to leave home?

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