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01/27/2012
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What Does the Future Hold for Engaging the Learner? What’s the Next Trend?
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Neil Lasher
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During this Online Forum, you have considered many factors relevant to learner engagement: reluctant learners, learner preferences, cognitive challenge, active reflection, scenario-based sim . . .
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01/27/2012
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Creating an Online Learning Community
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Kevin Wilcoxon
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Establishing and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive learning environment is one of the most difficult challenges of online teaching and training. Years of research tells us that social pr . . .
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01/27/2012
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Theory into Practice for Instructional Game Design
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Karen Burpee
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There is a gap moving from formal education to the professional world. Academic programs on instructional design can be theory-heavy, and don’t always provide much practical applicatio . . .
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01/27/2012
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Beyond the Talking Head: Ensuring Engagement in Synchronous eLearning
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Christina Griffin
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Today we are attempting to teach learners in some of the most distracting environments possible — their offices and their homes. How do we keep online learners engaged despite telephon . . .
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01/27/2012
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Designing for Active Reflection: A University Virtual-Classroom Case Study
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Peter Finn
Jeff Merrell
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How do you leverage virtual-classroom technologies to extend the reach of a successful on-campus university program? In 2009, Northwestern University’s Master’s Program in Learni . . .
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01/26/2012
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Case Study: Developing a Scenario-Based Conversation Simulation
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Amanda Warner
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Scenario-based simulations can be fantastic ways to build user engagement through meaningful, memorable interactions. Moving from the initial idea to designing actual simulations, however, c . . .
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01/26/2012
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Getting Better Results from Less Content
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Roger Mundell
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If we agree that engagement is a key challenge for developers of online course content, then we must ask ourselves why so many courses are not engaging. Does technology offer new op . . .
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01/26/2012
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Designing Training for 3D Virtual Learning Environments
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Pam Paulsen
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Learning in 3D virtual worlds has vast benefits: from attracting and retaining talent to significant cost savings in travel. 3D Virtual Learning Environments (3DVLEs) are fun, allow for more . . .
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01/26/2012
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Increasing Cognitive Challenge and Participant Engagement
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Bea Babbitt, Ph.D.
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Many organizations need to train large numbers of adult employees using a common curriculum. While the training’s goal is often laudatory — safety, efficiency, improved performan . . .
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01/26/2012
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Teaching the Reluctant Learner
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JC Kinnamon, Ph.D.
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Much of corporate online training is mandatory; training many learners would prefer to skip. Assuming there are motivated learners out there can be a costly mistake for instructional designe . . .
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12/09/2011
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How the Third Information Age Will Reshape Education
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William Rankin
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In the first information age, before Gutenberg’s press, information traveled slowly and inefficiently, and was primarily available to the powerful and highly educated. Almost six centu . . .
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12/09/2011
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Transform Your Visual Design: From Haphazard to Intentional
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Connie Malamed
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Visual design has impact. It makes a powerful statement about your professionalism and credibility. It influences a learner’s motivation, enjoyment, and ability to learn. Discover how . . .
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12/09/2011
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The Future of Learning Data and Adaptive Learning
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Richard Culatta
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To make learning experiences available to a wide audience, we often overlook the unique needs of individual learners. As technology creates increasingly customized experiences in other parts . . .
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12/09/2011
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On the Horizon: Building the Instructional Designer’s Relevance in 2012
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Aaron Silvers
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With Enterprise 2.0, businesses are shifting from top-down models of information dissemination to “outside-in” models of knowledge exchange. The traditional Learning and Developm . . .
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12/09/2011
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Designing for a Small Screen
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Paul Clothier
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Many organizations are eager to use mobile learning (mLearning) to supplement and enhance their existing training and learning programs, but they lack the expertise to design content for the . . .
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12/08/2011
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Tools, Tools, Tools: The Guild's Research Results on Rapid eLearning Authoring Tools
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Joe Ganci
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In the past few years, vendors have labeled almost every new authoring tool as “rapid.” But are these tools really rapid? More importantly, will they help you create excellent eL . . .
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12/08/2011
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What’s the Future of Visualization and Learning?
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Tom Crawford
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People have always been visual. Cave paintings are visual. Maps in the sand are visual. Books are visual. The world is visual. The newest technologies such as augmented reality, facial and g . . .
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12/08/2011
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Why Many Learning Experiences Aren’t Meaningful to Learners (and What to Do About It)
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Patti Shank
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Many learning experiences we design aren’t as meaningful for learners as they need to be. Learners often don’t find these experiences relevant to their needs. Learners feel contr . . .
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12/08/2011
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What Research Tells Us About Designing and Creating Game-Based Learning
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Karl Kapp
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In the past few years, the terms games, gamification, and game-based learning have entered the vocabulary of trainers, eLearning developers, and instructional desi . . .
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12/08/2011
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Secrets of Persuasive Communication in the Virtual Classroom: Evidence-based Principles to Grow Your Irresistible Influence
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Carmen Taran
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How do you craft a message to persuade others to act differently or to believe in something? Even more challenging, how do you communicate persuasively when people cannot even see y . . .
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10/07/2011
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So You Think You Know What's Happening with Social Learning?
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Jane Bozarth
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In the last few years, we have seen many exciting new products and tools appear in the learning field, especially in social media. We’ve also seen renewed interest in social and inform . . .
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10/07/2011
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Informal Learning — Research-Based Answers to How it Works and How to Best Support It
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Victoria J. Marsick, Ph.D.
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Given the networked, decentralized nature of work, organizations are seeking to help employees learn continuously in ways that often happen organically and informally as people tackle common . . .
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10/07/2011
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Social Learning: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications
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Erika Robertson
Barry Shields
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Social learning in the enterprise is top of mind for many organizations. But what is social learning? What resources and tools drive and support collaboration?
Participants i . . .
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10/07/2011
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Internal Marketing 101: A Near-Guaranteed Blueprint for Successfully Launching Informal Learning Initiatives
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Nemo Chu
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Buying the right tools is only half the battle of launching a new learning initiative. Many veteran trainers know that “internal marketing” is the other half — creating awa . . .
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10/07/2011
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MilSpace: What the U.S. Army Can Teach You About Social Learning
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Eric Sauve
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Soldiers face changing situations all the time, and the responsibility they have for mission success literally means the difference between life and death. MilSpace, a self-service professio . . .
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10/06/2011
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Learnstreaming — Take Control of Your Online Informal Learning Experience
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Dennis Callahan
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As the Internet has moved from one-way, static pages to two way, real-time streams, it has afforded us greater opportunities for informal learning, including informal socia . . .
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10/06/2011
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The Evolution and Future of Social Learning
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Johnson Cook
David Schnurman
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The integration of social learning with formal learning is at a critical point in its evolution. We feel and see it on a daily basis with all the social-media tools currently available, but . . .
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10/06/2011
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The Magic Number: Successfully Scaling Social Learning
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Ben Betts
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People fuss about class size in schools, but we often seem to overlook these issues when we put 10,000+ people together in an online learning environment. High volumes might be acceptable in . . .
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10/06/2011
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Informal Learning: It’s A Relationship
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Jeannette Campos
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Learning events are formal experiences designed to influence positive changes in workplace performance. In most formal learning events, the instructor-to-learner relationship is dominant. In . . .
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10/06/2011
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The Informal Learning Challenge: How Much Do You Already Know? How Much Have You Already Done?
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Saul Carliner, Ph.D., CTDP
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Is informal learning the future of workplace learning? How much do you already know about informal learning, and how prepared are you to leverage that knowledge and experience in your organi . . .
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09/16/2011
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Don't Gamify — Pleasurize!
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Jesse Schell
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A revolution is happening in the world of design: we’re waking up to the fact that just about anything can be made more enjoyable. And some people have figured out that game designers . . .
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09/16/2011
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Transmedia Storytelling as a Teaching Tool
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Matt Lisle
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Stale, boring eLearning is pervasive, but even the most engaging and interactive eLearning doesn’t typically hold a learner’s attention past the final quiz, much less throughout . . .
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09/16/2011
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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning?
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Debbie Richards
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HTML5 — the new web markup standard being adopted by Apple, Google, and many others — lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions native . . .
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09/16/2011
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Leveraging the Latest Technologies for eLearning – Video, 3D Visualization, and Mobile
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Edward Prentice III
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How can eLearning professionals leverage new technology for our benefit and the benefit of our learners? How can we use new technology such as digital video and 3D visualization to energize . . .
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09/16/2011
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How Philips Healthcare Mobilized Learning with Scan Technology
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Anne Lamontagne
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Many organizations are looking for ways to incorporate QR (Quick Response) codes, Microsoft Tags, and other two-dimensional mobile tagging codes into their eLearning efforts. The Philips Lea . . .
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09/15/2011
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eBook Publication for Training
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Joel Zarley
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One of the hottest topics in personal technology today is eBooks and eReaders; Amazon.com now reports selling more eBooks than traditional printed books. How can we apply eBook technology ef . . .
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09/15/2011
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Death of the Human Instructor, Rise of the Machine
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Riham Mahfouz
Hatem Wasfy
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Online learning environments offer many advantages over traditional classroom instruction in terms of cost, convenience, accessibility, quality, and uniformity. Organizations can realize the . . .
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09/15/2011
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Training Design for Global Audiences
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Christopher Deal, Ph.D.
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A key impact of globalization is that organizations are now managing a truly global workforce, and learning professionals are increasingly being asked to design for and train global audience . . .
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09/15/2011
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Tablet Wars! iPads vs. Androids or PlayBooks for Enterprise mLearning
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Robert Gadd
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2011 is “The Year of the Tablet,” and the options are plentiful and diverse. Next-generation tablets can handle a variety of content types for engaging learning and performance s . . .
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09/15/2011
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Alternate Reality? Simulation? Multiplayer? How & When to Use Play to Teach
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Jack McGrath
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According to the New Media Institute, between 2010 and 2014, nearly 20% of US workers will retire and be replaced primarily by “Next Gen” 18-40 year olds. These younger workers g . . .
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