When feeling anxious, it really does help to get more sleep
Editor’s note: A look at the wider context in which we learn, this piece examines the role of sleep in helping beat anxiety.
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How do you measure love (or employee engagement)?
Editor’s note: Much like love, employee engagement is difficult to measure. Maybe using proxy questions is the way forward?
Is L&D ready for the future?
Editor’s note: LPI chairman Donald Taylor on results from the LPI’s Capability Map that have been released today. Is L&D the bottleneck to business transformation?
It’s in your genes
Editor’s note: A good article on neurohype and neuroskepticism and the need to find a place in between.
Learning and the changing workplace
Editor’s note: Tom Spiglanin looks at how change will happen in L&D – technology will just sweep it into the cloud, and then what?
Learning to Change
Editor’s note: This report represents the script for why L&D needs to change. Thanks to @lesleywprice for sharing.
Watering the roots of knowledge through collaborative learning
Editor’s note: A look at what education, especially higher education could look like. The work at Quest University, Canada, looks compelling.
Take a graphic stroll through your own personal meta data
Editor’s note: An example of a tool to help filter your email data – forget information overload, let’s focus on the filters.
The science of familiar strangers: society’s hidden social network
Editor’s note: This is interesting in tow ways 1)
So, if informal support was the default for L&D . . .
Having just read through the tweets from yesterday’s chat2lrn Twitter chat on evaluating informal learning,…
Evaluating informal learning: curated tweets from #chat2lrn Twitter chat
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on evaluating informal learning. …
Compliance – e-learning’s greatest friend and worst enemy
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd reflects on Towards Maturity’s latest research into compliance training.
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.