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Working professionals today are faced with unprecedented challenge of keeping pace with rapidly changing work environment in a globalized world. Corporations employing these professionals are aware of this challenge and therefore, are increasingly deploying hybrid learning solutions to cater to the continuing education needs of their employees. The hybrid learning option allows them cost optimization in today’s times of global recession, while providing opportunities of customization as per their unique training and development goals. This paper highlights the latest trends suggesting an increasing propensity of corporations to engage service providers in creating customized hybrid learning solutions as against off-the-shelf purely face-to-face (F2F) or purely online learning solutions. By considering the case of a service provider located in South East Asia catering to corporations world-wide, the paper suggests a middle course that is conducive to client corporations as well as service providers in achieving the learning outcomes at an economical cost.
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Bedi, K. (2013). Hybrid Learning Trends in Continuing Education for Working Professionals. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Fong, W., Wang, F.L., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education. ICHL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39750-9_37
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