Distance learning: linking the globe through education
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The increasing demands of professional and personal life have made distance learning the only vehicle by which many senior executives can engage in continuing education. Distance education has become a trend of the times as well as a necessity prompted by geographical considerations and contemporary social demands. Corporations are increasingly prviding remote, computer-based and Internet-based education opportunities to their employees to enhance the functionality and flexibility of these staff.
Publication Name: World Trade
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 1054-8637
Year: 1999
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5 Strategic Trends in E-Learning
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According to the Research Institute of America amd the American Society for Training and Development, more e-training of employees in knowledge-based businesses yields more financial successes. Unisys, Conoco and Hallmark are companies that understand and are engaged in e-learning.
Publication Name: World Trade
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 1054-8637
Year: 2001
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Beyond Multilingualism
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GlobalReach, GlobalSight and IdiomTechnologies are web globalization services providers who report that more than half of the worlds online population speak no English and will by the year 2005, increase to more than 700 million or 70% of the web's 1 billion users world wide.
Publication Name: World Trade
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 1054-8637
Year: 2001
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