Learning stories
Editor’s note: L&D manager Sukh Pabial lays down a storylling challenge for the L&D community.
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Nuts and Bolts: Happy New Year 2013 by Jane Bozarth
Editor’s notes: Jane Bozarth reflects on three areas of learning from her Nuts and Bolts articles for Learning Solutions Magazine: design, reflection and showing how change can bring value.
Vox pops: learning technology highlights in 2012
What’s on your learning technology horizon for 2013 and what were your learning highlights and…
Does photographic memory exist?
Editor’s note: And the answer is that we all have a kind of photographic memory, in that most people’s memory for visual material is much better and more detailed than our recall of most other kinds of material.
10 themes for online learning in 2013
Editor’s note: BP’s Nick Shackleton-Jones provides his list of learning themes for the year ahead. No new shiny in here but more on general themes.
Top 50 articles of 2012 selected by Jane Hart
Editor’s note: Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Performance Technologies, selects her 50 favourite learning-related reads for 2012.
Are we more intelligent?
Editor’s note: Are we being made more intelligent by our habituated uses of technology, or are we becoming smarter because we have more opportunities to create our own content, and think more deeply about it? Steve Wheeler discusses.
33 HBR blog posts you should read before 2013
Editor’s note: We are big fans of the Harvard Business Review blog network so are delighted HBR has pulled together its best of the year blog posts.
Our favourite learning infographics of 2012
OK, LearnPatch was born with a lot of 2012 behind it but we have been…
Rewards and reward schedules in gamification
Editor’s note: Great insights into how to use rewards using ‘player journey diagrams’. If you are looking at gamification then this is a good read.
What-the-heck happened in 2012? Review of the top three events in education
Editor’s notes: And the three are: MOOCs, data and start-ups . . . so where was the excitement in L&D in 2012?
What did you learn in 2012? How we reflect on learning and create our personal narrative
Editor’s note: Yesterday’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat was on the subject of reflection. It’s that time of year and Julian Stodd shares his approach.
A personal look back at 2012
Editor’s note: Donald H Taylor is a familiar face to many in L&D. It has been a big year for Don, the Learning and Performance Institute and the Learning Technologies conference, all of which he reflects on in this piece.
35 of the best productivity and lifehack apps of 2012
Editor’s note: On a personal level, some useful apps to explore. On a professional level, some great apps to take inspiration from.
Social learning startup Grockit raises $20M
Editor’s note: Grockit, owner of Learnist, the Pinterest for learning, has raised another big chunk of funding. There’s plenty of venture capital in education technology and it is interesting to see this spill into the general life-long learning space.