Faltering start for the new Facebook
Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group?s shares falling below the $38 price set on ThursdayMurdoch quashes talk of UK paper spin-off
News Corp?s chief has moved to quash talk about selling its tainted UK newspaper business, saying publishing would remain ?a core component?Alibaba nears buyback deal with Yahoo
The deal under discussion would involve the US group selling about $7bn of its stake in the Chinese ecommerce group, valuing Alibaba at $35bnAlarm delay ?critical? says Concordia probe
Captain of giant cruise ship took more than an hour to alert the passengers after ship hit rocks off Italian island of Giglio

Online University Design
An online university is a web site that provides a complete "one-stop shop" for all your employees' training needs. By logging into an online university, your employees obtain information about newly released training programs, guidance on the programs that are appropriate for them, registration services for both online and classroom courses, and immediate access to their training records. Online universities are not the exclusive province of large corporations. Small and midsize firms that do not have their own private networks can provide online university services to their employees using an ASP (Application Solution Provider) model. Many of the key features of online universities are now offered by a national and international suppliers on an outsourced basis. How to Teach Adult Learners
Many aspects of teaching adults are fundamentally different than those employed in teaching children. Andragogy is a word popularized at the end of the twentieth century to describe the difference. This article by D. Verne Morland, managing partner of ROI Learning Services, highlights the important principles in teaching adults and suggests how they can be applied to business training. How to Write Instructional Articles
Instructional articles are very different from articles in reference manuals, product brochures, or even professional literature. This article by Herbert L. Bivens, chief learning officer of ROI Learning Services, defines instructional articles and describes how to write them. Put Earn in Your Learning
Many companies view training as a component of their employee benefits package - an expense to be controlled, not an investment to be maximized. This attitude is dangerously outdated. Survival in today's global economy requires continuous, cost-effective, world-class training. This article by D. Verne Morland, managing partner of ROI Learning Services, explains how to identify the "earn" in learning and measure the results as you would with any other business investment.

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