Donald H. Taylor Livres

In recent years research has shown that the traditional classroom-based approach to learning no longer fits the needs of the increasingly global, rapidly shifting modern organization. Learning and Development departments are being told to move online to cut training costs, reach an increasingly global workforce and offer the organization greater levels of customization over their learning content. There is a lot of excitement about LMSs, MOOCs and collaborative learning, but the decision to invest in learning technology is high-risk and it falls to the L&D; practitioner to ensure the return on this investment. Learning Technologies in the Workplace shows how learning technology can be successfully integrated with the business objectives of the organization to ensure a successful return on investment. Learning Technologies in the Workplace enables the practitioner to ask the right questions to ensure that their learning technology works for their business, taking into account the existing technology available, the level of IT support, the level of subject matter expertise in-house, their staff's training needs, and the level of personalization needed. This book also highlights potential pitfalls to avoid, shows how to identify the potential resistance and underlying issues and explains how to ensure the full support of all stakeholders from senior management to marketing and IT to ensure the greatest chance of success.

Progressives need a balanced federal budget morethan Conservatives, because they believe that government has an important role toplay in modern life. Lack of a long term plan to move toward a sustainablebudget crowds out short term Progressive priorities: infrastructure spending,green technology, education and needed governmental interventions in the shortterm to support and improve our weak economy. The federal budget is unsustainable. For all the bluster of the debt ceilingdebate, the plan passed so far does not address the changes most obviouslyneeded if we are to ever have a balanced budget again: an increase in taxes andthe next steps on health reform to address the biggest driver of our long termbudget deficit, health care costs.Slowing the rate at which health care costs are growing is a necessary, but nota sufficient condition to developing a long range balanced budget. You shouldask any politician saying they think a balanced budget is a priority onequestion: what is your health reform plan? Without one, they have no hope ofachieving their goal. This book offers progressives solutions to health care reform and a balanced budget, and will be of interest to academics, students and educated readers interested in politics, public policy and government finance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface.- Chapter 1: Progressives Need a Balanced Budget.- Chapter 2: Why the Deficit is a Problem.- Chapter 3: Health Reform: The Problems.- Chapter 4: Health Reform: The Policy.- Chapter 5: Health Reform: The Politics.- Chapter 6: Health Reform: The Barriers.- Chapter 7: Health Reform: Next Steps.- Chapter 8: Social Security.- Chapter 9: Guns vs. Medicare.- Chapter 10: How Much Should Government Spend?.- Chapter 11: Tax Reform.- Chapter 12: We Need to Act.