Online Educa review
Editor’s note: A short and interesting review of the Online Educa exhibition. Last year’s trend for whiteboards has been replaced by a focus on video. But is there any real innovation here?
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A new Behavioural Design Lab in the UK
Editor’s note: Interesting to see this, the world’s first Behavioural Design Lab. And it is based in the UK. It looks to have a wide remit but should be useful to follow to see developments at the intersection of design and behaviour.
UK startup Loccit sells 8,000 Facebook ‘Memory Books’ in 48hrs, wants to turn your digital media footprint into physical stuff
Editor’s note: Interesting to see the industry that is growing around the major social networks. In particular, the services that enable users to turn digital content into physical content. Something we might see in L&D?
How to evaluate learning: Kirkpatrick model for the 21st century – a revision
Editor’s note: An instructional designer’s revision of the Kirkpatrick four models of evaluation.
Video: The science of persuasion
Editor’s note: Thanks to @Rsuominen for sharing this animation describing the universal principles of persuasion based on the research of Dr Robert Cialdini, professor emeritus of psychology and marketing, Arizona State University.
Quick links and resources from BP’s Future of Learning
Editor’s note: Great round-up of links from the recent BP Future of Learning event by @StephanieDedhar.
Ten digital workplace trends for 2013
Editor’s note: Paul Miller, CEO and Founder, Digital Workplace Group and author of “The Digital Workplace – How Technology is Liberating Work”, tells us what will happen in the accelerating digital workplace industry globally in 2013.
‘Post It Note Pedagogy’ – top ten tips for teaching and learning
Editor’s note: 10 great ideas for using the common sticky square of yellow paper.
Top 10 vendors that get the consumerisation of IT in the enterprise
Editor’s note: So which enterprise tech vendors are good at adapting to the challenge of the consumerisation of technology?
Google makes you stupid if by stupid you mean informed
Editor’s note: This quote sums up the piece: ‘Access to facts and “lower-level” knowledge provides a more fertile ground for higher-level learning. And just because the process of finding such knowledge is simpler doesn’t neuter or de-authenticate the learning; rather it frees up the learner for more important thinking that a computer can’t duplicate.’
How far can we push the boundaries of e-learning? Is there a future for extreme-learning?
Editor’s note: Jonathan Vernon ponders technology that is helping severely injured patients reconnect with the world.
Top ed-tech trends of 2012: education data and learning analytics
Editor’s note: Last in a great series of seven tech trends in education for 2012. This one looks at analytics.
With 3.7m study hours logged, Cerego launches memory management service in US to improve education – The Next Web
Editor’s note: Cerego sounds like a course builder platform but also claims to be a ‘memory management service’. It has been very successful in helping students in Japan learn English as a foreign language.
How mobile is waging battle for multi-screen living room
Editor’s note: Research looks at how mobile devices are used with TV and how the new multi-screen living room will actually function.
Why 2013 will be the year of the Internet of Things
Editor’s note? The internet of what? We are all data points and the data we produce will affect how things work. This is a useful article on the Internet of things, which was subject of debate at the recent LeWeb conference in Paris.