Compliance – e-learning’s greatest friend and worst enemy
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd reflects on Towards Maturity’s latest research into compliance training.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Professional communities, barriers to inclusion, and the value of a posse
Editor’s note: An academic focus but pertinent points on what makes communities inclusive, relevant and sustainable.
Beyond Kirkpatrick: evaluating informal learning
Editor’s note: A useful blog post on measuring informal learning ahead of today’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat on the same topic.
Mental toughness helped Nik Wallenda – 7 ways it can help you too
Editor’s note: Some useful – and interesting – tips from Nik Wallenda who has just walked a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon.
Engaging eLearning – The Journey So Far
Editor’s note: This is what your elearning could look like . . . thanks to @weelearning for sharing.
The neuroscience of social influence
Editor’s note: fascinating research into the neuroscience behind idea sharing. The results make for interesting reading: “The spread of ideas depends on the messenger’s social-cognitive abilities, affect, and motivations, and less on IQ-type intelligence. None of the stages involved in social influence recruited brain regions typically associated with higher-level abstract reasoning and executive functioning (the frontal-parietal brain network).”
Citrix’s collaboration platform Podio gets Skype-like video conferencing and in-chat file sharing
Editor’s note: Interesting to see Podio, Citrix’s online collaboration platform service, adding Skype-like services. Getting ahead of Yammer in its functionality as a collaboration tool?
All together now
Editor’s note: Steve Wheeler continues his series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books. In this post, he looks at Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.
Ethnography is everywhere
Editor’s note: A good primer on ethnography as a research tool, especially in design and user experience.
Five reasons to use performance support
Editor’s note: A range of reasons to use performance support, from fear to it’s happening anyway. So, to stay relevant L&D must embrace it now . . .
Coaching: ‘effective but hard to measure’, says report
Despite the fact organisations say coaching is effective, measuring its success continues to be a…
Infographic of the week: How to create perfect updates on social platforms
Not sure there is a ‘perfect’ update but some useful insights here. Thanks to Mycustomer…
New research: flexibility versus face time
Editor’s note: Research of nearly 1,000 high potential employees and their attitudes and experiences of flexible working.
Data, smartwatches and the future of fitness, with RunKeeper’s Jason Jacobs
Editor’s note: A look at the future of wearable tech and sports apps – application for behaviour change in organisations?
Using Twitter to provide some quick and interesting lesson starters
Editor’s note: Thanks to @janebozarth for sharing this – inspirational ideas for how to use Twitter for teaching and learning.