These people create the jobs, which then creates the demand for the education to fill those jobs, where technical book-learning is necessary.

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With a private log-in, employees can now manage their own payroll and retirement plans, request time-off and other schedule adjustments, book on-line courses and other learning and development tools, engage and be social with colleagues on intranets, and just generally manage their own work lives to an extent that was previously impossible.

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Since those in my age group were considerably too callow to lead troops into battle, it was decided at the Navy Department that we would be sent to college, where, as book-toting privates, we would gain a little learning and seasoning, and also a year or two of physical and mental growth, before our fateful collision with the Japs.

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The first step in creating a facilitated network that would ultimately lead to a student-centric learning system we said in our book might come from parents creating tutoring tools online to help their children for example, the father of a mathematics genius daughter who struggles to spell might create a unique method to teach spelling to help her out on YouTube.

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An interesting new book by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham, The New Social Learning (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Sep 2010) covers this topic very well.

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