The Future of Identity
Editor’s note: The Future of Identity report looks at the impact of hyper connectivity on society and on individual identity.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Psychology of lawyers and knowledge management: encouraging collaboration
Editor’s note: An article that looks at the psychological characteristics of lawyers and how these can be used by knowledge management professionals to help lawyers share and create useful content.
Love Learning lives
Editor’s note: How one company is Last week our CEO announced the launch of Love Learning, our new campaign to promote independent learning, increase internal and external networking and improve collaboration and knowledge sharing habits across the company.
CurationCamp speakers promote their talks in tweets
The speakers at our forthcoming event CurationCamp have created a Twitter hashtag (#LT13fringe) and tweeted…
The January 2013 edition of the Telepresence Options Telegraph
Editor’s note: A feast of links on video conferencing technology and developments in telepresence.
Codecademy’s Zach Sims talks education 2.0 and learning to code
Editor’s note: I was minded of Stephen Heppell’s comment about our current fixation on recorded media in online learning (such as Khan Academy) when I read this. Codeacademy has a focus on learners creating, not just consuming which makes it one to watch.
Surprise, surprise: study finds that relationships promote perseverance and cash bonuses do not
Editor’s note: A new study in the US found that mentoring had more impact for older school children than financial incentives when preparing to apply for college. We know the power of intrinsic motivation but as we become more networked so we open the door to more mentoring possibilities. Technology has a role to play here too.
Does posting Facebook status updates increase or decrease loneliness?
Editor’s note: There’s not a lot of empirical data on the use of social networks which is why researchers carried out this piece of work on the impact of status updates on how lonely we feel.
Mayer & Clark – 10 brilliant design rules for e-learning
Editor’s note: Donald Clark takes a look at the work of Richard Mayer and Ruth Clark who wrote e-Learning and the Science of Instruction in 2003. The book covers seven design principles: multimedia, contiguity, modality, redundancy, coherence, personalisation, and practice opportunities and Clark argues it is a must-read for anyone designing elearning.
The 30 biggest myths about online learning
Editor’s note: Some useful points to direct at naysayers.
Change or die
Editor’s note: Andrew Jacobs picks up on the theme of change. This quote sums it up: ‘If we don’t become agile, if we remain entrenched in ‘the way we do things’, if we want to be considered as partners we need to start partnering, stop providing and use the opportunity of the channels we now have.’
Social learning accelerates innovation faster than innovation processes
Editor’s note: Interesting take on social learning and innovation and how social learning – through its networked approach – is more effective at stimulating innovation.
Beyond learning systems – Tin Can API
Editor’s note: Where does Tin can data fit into the wider workforce analytics? And is there gold there?
16 of the year’s best ideas in user interface design
Editor’s note: Indulge yourself and look into the future of interface design . . .
Rewiring corporate learning #2: how to decide where to begin
Continuing his series on rewiring corporate learning, Nigel Paine, former chief learning officer at the…