the way in which somebody approaches the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Learning styles have been divided into four main types by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford, in their Manual of Learning Styles (1982). The types of learners are the activist, who likes to get involved in new experiences and enjoys the challenges of change; the theorist, who likes to question assumptions and methodologies and learns best when there is time to explore links between ideas and situations; the pragmatist, who prefers practicality and learns best when there is a link between the subject matter and the job in hand and when he or she can try out what he or she has learned; and the reflector, who likes to take his or her time and think things through, and who learns best from activities where he or she can observe and conduct research. One person can demonstrate more than one learning style, and the category or categories that best describe somebody can be determined through use of a learning styles questionnaire.
There are several reasons for the interest in e-learning, especially sales education: cost savings; availability anytime, anywhere; and focus. However, e-learning has not reached its promise, primarily because of its text-orientation and not accommodating student learning style. This article explores ways of increasing media richness, especially via the use of...
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CHICAGO -- Managed learning services or vendor assistance in the learning and development space is not new, but in the past five years increasing numbers of technological advances and widespread use of the Internet to augment learning activities have made formal efforts to outsource learning more popular. This Learning Solutions...
Does management training have to be painful? The authors belief is that the old saying of "No pain, no gain" should not apply to learning about how to be a better manager. Management training should be interesting, fun and exciting and it can only be that way for you if...
From its inception, e-learning hubs have been closely linked to learning activities and resources. However, there is hardly any research in examining the impact of e-learning hubs on learning outcomes, specifically how to design online learning activities to attain the desired learning outcomes. This paper first shows how to use...
The Accenture Learning 2004 Survey of Learning Executives has delivered a set of compelling insights into today's learning organizations, both in business and in government. The learning functions at most of the organizations participating in the Accenture Learning survey clearly face heightened expectations to deliver value, prove the business impact...
A good deal of learning (eg. from training) is wasted because the goals are ill- defined, and the workplace supports to apply the learning are missing or absent. Therefore, Learning contracts are designed to help develop shared expectations about the purpose, process and results that are to come from any...
This paper considers whether there is any relationship between a firm's learning style and the way it chooses to appropriate its innovation profits. It argues that there two potential connections: first, a firm's absorptive capacity, its ability to generate new innovations and its subsequent ability to appropriate the returns from...
This paper attempts to shed light on the 'black-box' called hedge funds via style analysis technique developed by Sharpe (1992). The conventional style analysis cannot be directly applied to hedge funds as it imposes two constraints: first, the style weights have to be non-negative and second; they have to add...
Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. At any point in time, organizations can...
Learning time management is not as difficult as many believe. In fact, when a person first starts school he is in the process of learning new strategies that help him to obtain goals. When parents teach children who they are, also learning skills needed in time management. The advantage of...
Decision Style will dictate how a person will make a decision. A person's decision making process depends to a significant degree on their intellectual style. A person's decision style is based largely on their personality type - for example, someone is deemed a "thinker", and also tends to extroversion, sensing,...
Everyone has a unique style for dealing with conflict. By understanding this style and how others perceive one's style, a person can improve his skills at managing and resolving conflict. Although conflict can arise from many sources, the common causes involve differences between two individuals' or groups' values, attitudes, needs,...
This paper believes that the popular frameworks for defining investment style existing till the year 2001 were not working well. Investors had been let down by the existing style classification schemes, benchmarks, and style peer groups. This paper reviews the evolution of style. It describes how the existing classification and...
Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. An additional possibility is investigated. At any...
Establishing an E-learning ProgramE-Learning - An Insider's PerspectiveThis article lives up to its billing as a basic overview for establishing an E-Learning Program. It fulfills its mission. In future discussions of E-Learning, I would like there to be more devoted to the various learning management systems that are available in...
Many organizations now recognize that on-demand answer finding is a primary source of employees' daily learning, and are searching for ways to support this informal learning in tandem with their more formalized blended training programs. This paper provides a structure for combining formal and informal learning resources within a blended...
Learning and knowledge sharing software company OutStart has formed a partnership with UK based, New Wave Learning, in response to the increased demand for workplace learning solutions. New Wave Learning specialises in the provision of informal learning solutions and will offer OutStart's suite of learning and knowledge products.
Thinq Learning Solutions Inc., of Baltimore, a provider of learning management software, said it has been selected as a subcontractor for the U.S. government's FasTrac program, a contracting vehicle for e-learning and technology training, enabling Thinq to provide its Total Learning Solution suite of learning technologies to government agencies.
Portfolios are often intentionally created to include funds that represent distinctly different equity categories. If the funds stray from their original style, the portfolio can then tilt in unintended ways. When equity returns get more volatile, style drift increases. Yet, this is what happens when funds drift from their original...
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