Video of the week: Khan Academy and the effectiveness of science videos
How effective are science videos at helping viewers learn more? Derek Muller talks through the…
Yearly Archives: 2013
The ten habits of highly effective brains
Editor’s note: Alvaro Fernandez provides some good lifestyle options we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains.
Report: Most people just trying to get by
Editor’s note: A reflection on designing for behaviour change. Not framed in learning design but interesting insights into designing to help solve people’s problems.
Learning Technologies 2013: Tune into the back channel
Editor’s note: Kate Graham is managing the Twitter backchannel for this week’s Learning Technologies conference. Here she looks at how users can get the most out of the event by following it on Twitter (hashtag is #lt13UK).
Why big data (mostly) can’t help improve teaching
Editor’s note: With all the big data hype, this article looks under the skin of big data in education and whether data can provide actionable pedagogical insights. The article raises some interesting issues around how video, for example, can be usefully measured in terms of learning impact and whether data can be captured to help educators understand how to create a greater impact.
15 tools for better project-based learning
Editor’s note: A useful list for managing projects – has an education slant but these tools will still be useful in different learning contexts.
Curated tweets from the #chat2lrn Twitter chat on crowdsourced learning
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Video of the week: Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
Author of the book Drive, Dan Pink, takes a look at motivation, arguably the most…
Rewiring corporate learning #3: Focus on impact
Nigel Paine, former chief learning officer at the BBC, continues his series on rewiring corporate…
Neural networking: online social content easier to recall than printed info
Editor’s note: Recollecting Facebook posts is easier than recalling the same information in a book. It also takes less effort to remember posted patter than someone’s face, according to new research.
A retrospective editing of consciousness
Editor’s note: Research suggests that consciousness isn’t ‘filtered’ sensory information, but an active ‘conclusion’ drawn from information distributed across senses, space and time.
Why, to improve memory, we need to think of the brain as a system
Editor’s note: Some useful nights in here – this is a transcript of a conversation of participants on a brain fitness course.
For ‘adaptive learning’ tech, a surge of investment
Editor’s note: Short round-up of three tech companies who have received funding to develop their learning technologies – WizIQ, KnowRe and Area9.
A Twitter story
Editor’s note: A personal perspective on using Twitter, finding people and finding purpose in it all by L&D manager Sukh Pabial.
L&D professionals urged to ‘give back’ learning resources to third sector
Learning and development professionals are being asked to donate elearning resources to organisations in the…