Tracey Wilen-Daugenti Bücher

Digital Disruption offers educators, executives, and students a fresh approach as to how to navigate the future to ensure success.

A guide for understanding the emerging societal forces that are shaping the future. It explores how evolving family structures, ways of balancing work and personal lives, and rapid technological advancements will transform the ways that US colleges and universities develop well-educated, career-oriented citizens.

Career Confusion explores why there is career confusion in today's professional world. By examining the sequence of events and transitions that formed the current professional and career landscape, Dr. Tracey Wilen encourages and guides readers to navigate this new job market with tact and gumption.

Employed for 21st-Century Career Trends is the first book to explore career development from the viewpoints of firm managers, HR professionals, recruiters, job seekers, and employees. It examines such topics as new developments in recruiting and career development; the ways social, cultural, and technological forces have changed careers; and best practices for job hunting and career planning. The authors use primary and secondary research to provide insight on how the nature of work has changed and what that means for individuals' career plans. Employed for Life shares career advice from recruiters and HR professionals and provides a framework that readers can use to ensure lifelong employment.Some of the questions answered in this book How are the new demographics of the United States changing the way we work?How will longevity impact career planning?Is technology creating more jobs than it destroys?What are HR professionals doing to address talent management in the 21st century?What insights can recruiters provide to help employees navigate a dynamic marketplace?How are employees finding work in a difficult job market?How can individuals plan for a career that could last 50 years or longer?

The Internet has transformed higher education by changing the way universities and colleges teach students. As a result, many institutions are struggling to understand how the next generation of Internet technologies, including Web 2.0, multimedia, virtual presence, gaming, and the proliferation of mobile devices, will impact their students and infrastructures. . Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education discusses how higher education institutions can use these technologies to enable learning environments. In the future, students will have complete access to any higher education resource, including expert scholars, lectures, content, courseware, collaborative dialogues, information exchanges, hands-on learning, and research – no matter where they are located. If fully enabled, this new learning environment will blur the lines between on- and off-campus experiences and remove barriers to learning and research – greatly improving the quality of education for students globally.