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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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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