Tech titans and online education orgs team up with the Open Education Alliance
Editor’s note: Google, AT&T and a host of online education organisations are forming an alliance to develop standards for career readiness.
Author Martinc
BPS Research Digest: the digest guide to … human attraction
Editor’s note: What attracts us to each other? Find out here.
Video of the week: BF Skinner on online learning
One for all the learning technologists out there. (H/T Marginal Revolution)
A question on collaboration for L&D
Doug Shaw just posed this question on collaboration at the Learning Live conference. How do…
What L&D needs . . .
Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute Don Taylor just kicked off the institute’s annual…
Twenty-five years later: performance support adoption
Editor’s note: Frank Nguyen on the history and development of performance support and how organisations are designing it in to the learning process.
Design leads us where exactly?: Design and design thinking in public services
Editor’s note: Thankyou to @burrough for sharing this article on design thinking and how, operationally, you can embed design in organisations.
#PSS13 Performance Support Symposium backchannel: curated resources
Editor’s note: Follow the Performance Support Symposium thanks to Dave Kelly’s curated resources.
The new multi-screen world study
Editor’s note: Part of Google Insights research, this study shows how consumers use multiple devices to shop. The type of device experiences needed with learning tech.
Fostering the reciprocity of learning
Editor’s note: Thanks to @dsmith_tmaw for sharing this piece on how a teaching professor facilitates a discussion with students on how the group learns as a whole and how the reciprocal nature of learning might work.
Slidedeck of the week: Learning and creating knowledge in a social networked era
This week’s choice slide deck is from George Siemens, taken from his talk at the…
Our self-inflicted complexity
Editor’s note: “We are bedeviled by manufactured complexity — complexity that could have been avoided but has instead been amplified by the pursuit of narrow knowledge in a broad world.” Great insights on complexity and the pursuit of knowledge.
The neurological benefits of practice
Editor’s note: Overlearning something helps reduce the workload on the brain which means you can use the spare resources on enhancing your performance.
Design experiences to nudge consumers
Editor’s note: Tips on how to provide a great customer experience – something all L&D professionals are in the business of providing.
Martin Bean, vice-chancellor Open University, on Futurelearn
Editor’s note: The OU’s free access MOOC platform is going live this month. Martin Bean explains why the OU has developed the platform.