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Forget the Classroom: Turn to the Web for Innovative Learning Techniques
"Think Facebook Meets Grand Theft Auto." Experts say that when it comes to teaching, training professionals should use more sophisticated training tools. This way, they can delight as they enlighten employees by harnessing the power of gaming, social media and virtual worlds instead of slides and conventional classroom environments.
Immigration Reform Linked to Biometric IDs
Interest is growing in Washington for requiring a biometric identity card for everyone who is authorized to work in the United States. Two senators at the center of the immigration reform effort have voiced their support for the biometric card and say it should be an essential part of the Senate’s reform proposal.
Biometrics Conference Coverage
Daily Reporter's Notebook: Conclusion
The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement’s third annual Biometrics for National Security and Defense conference wrapped up Wednesday, March 17, 2010, with discussion about two programs implemented to screen workers and foreign visitors—the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program and the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program. Both have made broad progress since 2009 and you can read about it here. SHRM members are able to weigh in on conference coverage on SHRM Connect and follow it up to the minute via Twitter by following 1SHRMScribe.
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Training Games: Using Simulations to Teach Employees
A growing number of employees are using online simulations to role-play challenging scenarios, practice job skills and attend virtual meetings by logging on to web sites. In some cases, simulations in virtual worlds save companies huge sums that would have been spent trying to re-create job conditions in the real world.
Paperless Pay is Legal in More States
In a turbulent economy, employers are looking for ways to cut costs without reducing their workforces. One way to achieve this goal benefits employees, employers and the environment: paperless wage payment.
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Report: E-Verify Vulnerable to Identity Theft and Errors
A report finds that the federal government's E-Verify employment verification system is highly vulnerable to identify theft. E-Verify clears more than half of non-eligible workers who use bogus IDs, the report says.
Study Links Handheld Devices to Poor Workplace Manners
Cell phones, smartphones, handheld devices, laptops and other mobile electronic gadgets are becoming ubiquitous in the workplace, giving employees unprecedented access and connectivity. But it appears that frequent use of the gadgets can decrease employees’ manners.
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Experts: Training Key to Minimize Impact of Shrinking Utility Workforce
Concerned that utility workers will soon retire in droves, many companies, like Con Edison are preparing their remaining staff by having them trained by existing workers. Moreover, as they instruct, those seasoned workers are offloading their accumulated know-how into a stockpile of documents, databases and self-training tools.
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