When most people think about blockchain, they’re thinking about finance. But blockchain technology has the ability to impact higher education and the hiring process by eliminating fraud, giving graduates control over their own credentials and allowing employers to quickly identify who has what skills.

Because Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) has a mission to extend access to higher education opportunities that are workplace relevant, they are very interested in the potential of this n…

5 myths about being an IT consultant, dispelled.

The Eco Dess Project Has Studied One Highway’s Impact on Health in Ecuador; Now It’s Tackling Zika and Dengue.

Gamification in training has aged well.

In the few years gamified e-learning has been around, it has grown from a buzzword into a mainstay of online training.

The fact that it’s been around for a few years hasn’t dampened the corporate training market’s enthusiasm for adding points, badges, and leaderboards to learning. If anything, L&D leaders are more interested in gamifying training. A new report from Technavio projects the global gamified training market will grow at a rate of 9.99 percen…

The robots are here, but are we ready to work with them? There are a lot of barriers to AI adoption in the workplace. Here are some ways we can welcome (and work well with) our new AI overlords.

You’re right in the middle of a big project at work, something you need to get done today, but — oh no — you can feel yourself getting hungry. You can’t work like this. You need to eat. So what do you do: get a snack, or go out for a long lunch with co-workers?

Of course you get the snack. If you went out for the long lunch, your project wouldn’t get done. Also, the interruption would interfere with the flow of the work you were doing. After you return from lunch, you’d have to get back into …

Do you feel like your sales team is endlessly spinning its wheels?

Your reps are always busy, and they have lots and lots of leads, but despite the fact that they’re constantly selling – somehow you’re not hitting your sales targets.

A low conversion rate and exhausted reps isn’t a great combination.

Clearly, something has gone wrong.

Part of the problem: your team may have too many leads.

While you may think having a heap of leads is a good thing, sales can be counter intuitive. Quantity is …

Is leadership training really necessary, or do great leaders do their best learning on the job?

James Gennetti leads an incredibly busy life. He and his wife have six children, he’s involved in a charity that raises awareness for juvenile diabetes, is renovating an old house and refurbishing a show car, and he works full-time for Comcast’s Northeast Division.

 

Recently, though, he added yet one more thing to his packed schedule: Gennetti is enrolled in College for America at Southern New Hampshire University, working to complete his associate degree.

 

“My goal is to become a senior direct…

According to accepted educational wisdom, three types of formal interactivity are involved in meaningful learning.