The science behind coffee and why it’s actually good for your health
Editor’s note: For many coffee is seen as a necessary evil. But is it evil? According to this article, science tells us it has its benefits.
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SAP aims to improve tablet enterprise collaboration with Mobile Documents
Editor’s note: Tech giant SAP has announced Mobile Documents which aims to bring together personal and corporate documents on any device via just one portal.
Thinking about creative pollination
Editor’s note: Dr Anne Marie McEwan takes an excerpt from here book Smart Working: Creating the Next Wave to look at the role of technology for creative pollination in the workplace.
Working from home
Editor’s note: Nigel paine reflects on Yahoo! CEO Marissa Meyer’s decision to stop homeworking for the company’s entire workforce. Thanks to @c4lpt for sharing.
Channel 4 launches online media sales academy powered by Brightwave
Learning technology provider Brightwave has developed an online learning portal for broadcaster Channel 4. The…
The CIPD’s view of what professional development looks like for L&D in 2013
Continuing our look at what L&D membership organisations see as the priorities for members’ professional…
Video of the week: Connected life – everything becomes smart
Reporting from this week’s Mobile World Congress, the FT’s Daniel Thomas looks at our hyper-connected…
How ‘Minority Report’ trapped us in a world of bad interfaces
Editor’s note: More human interfaces will be the key to the successful use of technology, something we see in the way apps have been developed for mobile devices. But there is still plenty of poor user interface design in learning technology. This article looks at the fantasy and reality of user interfaces.
#PunkHr, totaalvoetbal and the bold learning professional
Editor’s note: A follow-up to the L&D Connect Unconference from Perry Timms in which Perry calls for L&D to be more bold. Find out the link between toatal football and total learning . . .
A school in the cloud: Sugata Mitra accepted the TED Prize at TED2013
Editor’s note: Education innovator Sugat Mitra has just won the TED Prize at TED 2013 for his School in the Cloud initiative. If you are interested in the power of self-organised learning then look up his work.
3 facts about big data that will impact the learning industry
Editor’s note: It’s not hype and we have a lot more stakeholders . . . a short article on how big data will impact the learning industry.
Older workers transform the modern workplace
Editor’s note: ‘There’s no substitute for experience’ . . . a look at how employers in the US are bringing older workers back into the workplace. Thanks to the ASTD blog for sharing.
Curated tweets from the #cipdlrn webinar on intuition
Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith led yesterday’s #cipdlrn webinar on intuition – a part of a series…
How do you design the ultimate conference experience?
Editor’s note: weeLearning is asking for L&D professionals to help them to reimagine the L&D conference by using design thinking. If you think conferences need a makeover then join the discussion.
Who’s the best at innovating innovation?
Editor’s note: The 10 winners of the Innovating Innovation Challenge, the first leg of this year’s HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation.