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Daytona Beach Community College: 21st Century Skills at Work

whitepaper The College, along with it's educational partners, Volusia and Flagler County Public School Systems, recently unveiled the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), a facility designed to allow students of different ages and educational levels to attend...

Tags: educational, college, school, skills

[27 Sep 2005]

The Intel Learn Program Helps Turkish Students Acquire 21st Century Skills

whitepaper The program provides Pendik teachers and students informal educational opportunities to learn 21st century skills such as digital literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration, which are needed to compete in a global economy.

Tags: online - distance education

[04 Mar 2008]

Labor Market's in the 21st Century: Skills and Mobility Proceedings of a Joint United States and European Union Conference

whitepaper There is a well-established relationship between improvements in skills and increased productivity. Many factors can contribute to productivity improvements, including high levels of enterprise and innovation, high levels of domestic competition...

Tags: human capital management, capital, productivity, levels

[24 Jun 2005]

Bringing 21st Century Skills to Life in Charleston County

whitepaper Charleston County School District needed to address the universal challenge that many schools districts face: the struggle of providing high-quality training to a large number of educators while maximizing limited funding and resources.

Tags: school, district, functions, face

[27 Sep 2005]

In a Rural Indian Village, the Intel Teach Program Helps Students Bring School Dropouts Back to School

whitepaper Indian youth need to learn technology and other 21st century skills to improve their economic status and participate in the knowledge economy. Teachers are in need of effective strategies to help their students acquire such 21st century skills.

Tags: training and certification

[04 Mar 2008]

The Competitive Challenge: Building a World-Class Workforce

whitepaper At the start of the 21st century, the nation's economic vitality is more urgently dependent on the knowledge and skills of the workers than ever before in history. The workforce development system of the 21st century must be business driven...

Tags: performance budgeting and management, century, knowledge, skills

[15 Jun 2005]

Transforming Education for the 21st Century

whitepaper However, when intelligently applied, it can empower education leaders to deliver the 21st-century skills that students need to succeed in today's world. Technology is not a panacea for the problems facing K-12 schools today.

Tags: infrastructure management

[24 Mar 2008]

Understand E-Rate Funding for K-12 Technology Needs

whitepaper Access to technology is a crucial element in providing students with the skills they need in the 21st century. But shrinking budgets make it difficult for many schools to provide that access, creating a digital divide between the haves and the have...

Tags: strategic planning

[24 Mar 2008]

Statewide Implementation of the Intel Teach Program Promotes 21st Century Learning

whitepaper The challenge was to enhance development of students' 21st century skills and improve integration of technology for teaching and learning. Statewide Implementation wanted to improve professional development and student outcomes and Scale research...

Tags: online - distance education

[04 Mar 2008]

Mayville State University Case Study: A Digital Advantage

whitepaper As only the fourth university in the United States to provide notebook computers to all of its full-time students and faculty, Mayville State University has been committed to providing students with 21st-century computer skills since 1997.

Tags: tablets, students, campus, united states

[23 Mar 2005]

Communities of Practice: A New Tool for Government Managers

whitepaper Case studies will include: SafeCities, Boost4Kids and 21st Century Skills. This study documents the creation and implementation of several intergovernmental "communities of practice. It traces the history of these networks and documents their...

Tags: human capital management, documents, history, communities

[27 Dec 2004]

Evolution of the Infotech: The Changing Role of the Corporate Librarian

whitepaper As technologies converge, companies merge and demerge, markets expand and contract, what are the skills required of an information manager in order to thrive into the 21st century? This new breed of information expert will be required in all types...

Tags: knowledge management, develop, breed, developments

[24 Feb 2004]

Adobe Systems Case Study: University of Nevada, Reno

whitepaper In preparing students for 21st-century careers, UNR embraced the importance of digital communications skills and hands-on learning. UNR developed three unique courses - Information Systems 301, Marketing 380 and Journalism 204 - that provide a mix...

Tags: career development, skills, college, hands

[13 Jun 2006]

Leveraging and Capturing Human Capital - A Pragmatic Approach

whitepaper The 21st century is being called the Knowledge era. The commoditization of technology and technical job skills is ever increasing. The high valued assets of organizations often appear to be intangible.

Tags: financial management, capital, assets, human

[26 Apr 2005]

Delivering the Goods: Can a Learning Management System Help a Company Better Serve Its Customers? Rockwell Automation Found Theirs Could Do That - and More

whitepaper In the best tradition of 21st century companies, it's hard for a layperson to understand exactly what Rockwell Automation does. The factories that buy Rockwell's machines and software need to do a lot of training to keep users' skills current.

Tags: learning management systems, training, automation, rockwell

[10 Apr 2008]

The Case for Diversity: Attaining Global Competitive Advantage

whitepaper Recruiting, retaining and fully taking advantage of the skills and perspectives of the right mix of people is a critical success factor in the 21st century. In an era in which competition literally comes from everywhere as a result of globalization...

Tags: human capital management, cell, marketplace, base

[05 Nov 2004]

From Courseware Cosmetics to Human Cognetics: A Pragmatic, Innovative Pedagogy for Distributed Learning Design & Development

whitepaper Alternative, innovative pedagogical approaches more appropriate for 21st century communications technologies need to be systematically explored, developed, validated, and creatively implemented. Commercial courseware management systems efficiently...

Tags: courseware, instructional, community, century

[13 Apr 2005]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Verwaayen made silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setter list - ranked 16th - and is noted for championing initiatives such as BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) project to switch to an all-IP core network. Globalisation was another change Verwaayen did not...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare

Comment To my mind it is truly remarkable that the witch hunters are back in this 21st century, applying 17th century ignorance and fear. Is there a skills shortage? Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey.

Tags: peter cochrane, wi-fi health risk, wi-fi

[29 May 2007]

Skills crisis is toughest IT challenge say CIOs

News The skills crisis is the toughest challenge facing IT directors in the 21st century, and training inhouse staff is the only way to cope, according to the latest survey from Xephon. In its annual industry survey, the research house found almost 80...

[02 Aug 2000]

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