Can online education help business innovate faster?
Editor’s note: Reflections on taking an eight-week online course. How can organisations make the experience more interactive?
Yearly Archives: 2013
Salesforce.com readies Communities portal launch for general availability
Editor’s note: Interesting to see where CRM platform Salesforce.com is headed – a community platform to bring customers and colleagues together.
More than 50% of workers want more training, research reveals
Editor’s note: thanks to @colinsteed for sharing. Australians want more training at work and by far the most popular method is on the job experience.
Orientation discussion synthesis
Editor’s note: Notes from the the orientation phase of the Gary Hamel inspired HR hackathon. The whole hack process looks very interesting and the notes on hacking HR won’t disappoint.
Memory, aging, and distraction
Editor’s note: A look at the cognitive effects of getting older.
8 important characteristics of adult learners
Editor’s note: useful list to follow on from yesterday’s link on gender differences in learning.
It is in our nature to need stories
Editor’s notes: Some good links here looking at where stories fit into humna evolution.
Where Google Search is going
Editor’s note: Think Star Trek, voice recognition and context. Looks like Google’s knowledge graph will change the way we view and use Google.
Elearning, communities and boxing: an interview with Tom Kuhlmann
Next week, elearning guru Tom Kuhlmann will be in London to deliver a masterclass on…
Video of the week: Teaching in the 21st Century
Just replace the word teacher with L&D professional and student with colleague and this video…
LPI launches diploma in workplace learning and collaboration
The Learning and Performance Institute has launched a diploma in workplace learning for learning and…
E-learning and Sex
Editor’s note: Men’s brains work differently to women’s brains according to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, author of The Essential Difference. John Curran looks at the implications for designing elearning.
We need new words by Jane Bozarth
Editor’s note: Jane Bozarth on the challenges of what we call learning, after all learning is existential. What words would you use?
Why online courses [really] need an instructional design strategy
Editor’s note: Thanks to @designedlearnin for sharing this link to Debbie Morrison’s post on instructional design and why she believes it matters.
The Workplace Learning Revolution: free mini e-book
Editor’s note: Jane Hart’s new e-book on how workplace learning is changing is embedded in the post or available as a free download.