College Courses for $99/month?
A company called straighterline offers a $99/month subscription to its services: online college courses with no time constraints on course completion. But not everyone is happy about it.
Category: web-based training
E-mail, The Game
This recent article in Wired discusses the work of Dr. Byron Reeves, who turned e-mail in an organization into a game. Each week, employees at the organizations he works with receive tokens which they can then attach to their e-mails, which they can then spend to make their e-mails more important.
Meta-Analyses for Easter
The tables for my dissertation are done. I ran a total of 93 individual meta-analyses and produced 40 pages of tables over the last two days. My fingers hurt. It’s a lot like that...
Training in a Knowledge-based Economy
A recent post at the SIOP Exchange from Jacob McNulty said this: Training: in the world of Facebook, Google and You Tube, people are accustomed to getting the information they need when they need...
30,859 Pieces of Hell
The goal of my dissertation is to identify underlying differences between traditional and web-based training programs. To do this, I went back through hundreds of published and unpublished articles, dissertations, and assorted scholarly sources...