Does neuromarketing work? Poor data, secret analysis, and logical errors
Editor’s note: Will L&D be following in the tracks of marketing by taking scientific methodologies and making them their own? L&D could learn from marketing on this.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Megatrends: What’s revolutionising the world of work
Editor’s note: Useful research that highlights the big trends that are affecting our (working) lives.
A new vocational paradigm?
Editor’s note: It bridges education and work but how could vocational education be developed?
The case for paying people more
Editor’s note: Interesting analysis of how paying workers more might actually help the economy.
Moves to help more disabled people into the workplace
Editor’s note: The UK government has announced new efforts to help disabled people get into work. Less than 50% of the UK’s seven million disabled adults are in work currently.
Infographic of the week: Megatrends shaping working lives
This infographic is taken from a new research from the CIPD into trends impacting on…
The neuroscience of everybody’s favorite topic
Editor’s note: Why, in a world full of ideas to discover, develop, and discuss, do people spend the majority of their time talking about themselves?
Top ten learning management systems
Editor’s note: Craig Weiss provides an update on his list of the top learning management systems. Success Factors in at number four?!
The rise of UX leadership
Editor’s note: User experience is the new fashion in business – and rightly so. What does UX leadership look like?
Top 5 benefits of open badges for corporates
Editor’s note: Get up to speed with badges and their application in corporate learning care of Ryan Tracey.
Working out loud: a #SocialAge trait
Editor’s note: Talking out loud, or rather narrating your work, ideas and thinking, seems to be all the rage. Here Julian Stodd reflects on his working out loud.
Slidedeck of the week: Quantifying the invisible audience in social networks
This deck from Michael Bernstein of the Stanford Computer Science Department, shares research on how…
Pew: teachers believe digital tools encourage sharing and collaboration in classrooms
Editor’s note: According to a Pew survey, the majority of middle and high school teachers believe digital tools increase student collaboration with apps like GoogleDocs, and help them share their work through social media.
Visual book review: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything
Editor’s note: A recommendation here from @designedlearnin. An interesting looking book reviewed in visual notes.
Why behavior change apps fail to change behaviour
Editor’s note: useful insights for L&D here. A look at fitness apps and the difference between users wanting to do something and having to do something.