International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC)
Nov 09, 2008 Volume 1, Number 2
Editors
David Guralnick
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 8
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Online Business Games in the Insurance Industries – An Attempt to Prepare Attendees for their Later Working Life as Self-employed Workers
Patrick Blum, inside Business Group, Germany
In Europe, the basic education for sales personnel in the insurance industries is regulated by law to guarantee a secure customer oriented sales process. This education mainly targets insurance... More
pp. 4-8
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Contextual Mobile Learning for Repairing Industrial Machines: System Architecture and Development Process
Bertrand David, Chuantao Yin & René Chalon, LIESP lab, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
The convergence of mobile communication and wearable computers offers the opportunity to develop mobile learning systems which are able to assist individuals and groups in professional and... More
pp. 9-14
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Re-designing the Traditional University: an Answer to learning-on-demand for employees
Sebastiaan Jans & Valère Awouters, Limburg Catholic University College, Belgium
The student is changing at universities and university colleges. Also adult-learners find their way to the universities. Formations for adult-learners have to be more efficient. The biggest cost... More
pp. 15-16
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Practice based design for learning at work
Johan Lundin, IT-University Gothenburg, Sweden; Lars Svensson, Ulrika Lundh-Snis & Lena Pareto, University West, Sweden
Designing for learning at work in a manner that embraces the rich situatedness of practice involves a number of challenges in bridging normative and descriptive perspectives, as well as closing the... More
pp. 17-23
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Teaching Inventory Management Simulation Using E-Learning Software: Blackboard, Elluminate Live!, and Jing
Joel Oberstone, University of San Francisco, United States
Introducing the nuances of inventory management systems to undergraduate business students can be a daunting task. Beyond the traditional focus of the selection of order quantity and reorder point ... More
pp. 24-30
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E-teaching as a form of creating personal dispositions that increase work efficiency
M. Czapka & Luis Siguencia, Cardinal August Hlond Upper Silesian College of Pedagogical Education, Poland
The article deals with E-teaching which is supposed to increase work efficiency. There are presented and illustrated various factors that affect the process. The importance of personal dispositions... More
pp. 31-35
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Focus E-learning on Specific Small Target Groups
Vivek Ratna, Digital Learning Solutions, United States; Folkert Castelein, Global Learning Institute, Netherlands
We hear criticism about the education system in several countries. It’s been said that schools and many institutions are experimenting with several old methods of education that are not founded on ... More
pp. 36-41
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Contextual Learning On-demand at the Workplace – Strategy, Model, and Practice
To be agile in today’s business environment, every knowledge-intensive organization faces the challenge of supporting the non-classroom, non-instructional type of learning on-demand, inseparably... More
pp. 42-49