Earlier this year, Ron Danielson, vice provost for Information Services and CIO at Santa Clara University, predicted that in 2011, "New collaborative learning styles will be reflected and supported in ...

Engaging, retaining and growing talent in retail has implications far beyond employee churn. Companies that cultivate an organizational culture of learning and development (L&D) have a distinct ...

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A major recent study showed that informal science learning can play an important role in improving student learning in that subject. Such out-of-class learning can include trips to zoos or museums and ...

Although early human capital theory recognized the relevance of workers’ experience, its focus was on education and formal training. More recent studies show that much of the performance of newly ...

As learning becomes more self-directed, informal learning is gaining popularity Learning is changing. It is moving from a primarily school-based, formal process to include more informal opportunities.

“Michele” just graduated from a digital marketing degree and won a place on a top graduate programme. She was assigned to a group of peer-graduate trainees and an organisational mentor, “Louise”, the ...

Learning continues across the life span. It takes many forms and occurs in many venues, both within and outside the formal structures of education. Although there is a seemingly infinite variety of ...

The following essay, written by Magda Mostafa, is an excerpt from the book "Learning from Cairo: Global Perspectives and Future Visions," a collection of reflections from a three-day symposium of the ...