Purpose in work at the Meaning Conference
Here is my live blog from David Hieatt’s session on purpose in action from the…
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Beyond social – the future of work
Live blog notes from Stowe Boyd’s session at the Meaning Conference. Boyd shares his ideas…
A great new feature from Youtube: add quizzes to your videos
Editor’s note: Youtube is developing a useful looking tool – Video Questions Editor Beta. It promises to provide a way to run quizzes on videos. It’s a beta project but worth taking a look.
I’m speaking at #DevLearn 12
Editor’s note: Good to see some UK learning professionals speaking at the forthcoming DevLearn conference. Craig Taylor will be talking about mobile and in this video asks viewers to consider three questions on mobile usage.
How Wikipedia is built
Editor’s note: Fascinating look at the Wikipedia story – where it came from and how it works.
Social learning: answers to 8 crucial questions
Editor’s note: Ben Betts reflects on his recent research report in to social learning which he produced for the eLearning Guild. Some interesting thoughts on the role of the learning professional in a more ’social’ world.
Mobile phone culture: How cultural differences affect mobile use
Editor’s note: News network CNN is running a month-long look into mobile usage entitled ‘Our Mobile Society’. This article has a look at how mobiles are used around the world and includes a couple of useful links to research into mobile usage.
Storify of #chat2lrn Twitter chat on elearning
E-learning has a long way to go to deliver good user experiences for learners, according…
Enterprise 2.0 transition
Editor’s note: Harold Jarche’s notes from the E20 Meetup in Paris which discussed the role of organisational development and HR in the Enterprise 2.0 game play. In particular, how OD and HR can support adoption and transformation processes.
Cracking the nut with Jam, SAP moves social tools out of the silo and into business apps
Editor’s note: SAP is rebuilding its social tools with a service called Jam that it will launch in November. What’s interesting here is that this is not social for social’s sake. This is about ‘social glue’ enabling sharing across all apps. Worth watching.
The future of L&D
Editor’s notes: David Goddin’s review of Training Journal’s L&D2020 event on “The new L&D skill set – building relationships with the business”. Raises some interesting questions about the future mindset required for L&D professionals.
Ready for your close-up? Distance at which facial photos are taken influences perception
Editor’s note: With Instagram overtaking Twitter on mobile devices we know the importance of images. And we also know the importance of images in learning content, and in our own avatars, etc, which is why this research is worth a look.
elearning: what is it good for? #chat2lrn
Editor’s note: #chat2lrn is a Twitter chat for learning and OD professionals that takes place every other week on a Thursday. Yesterday’s chat was on e-learning, and very interesting it was too. Prior to each chat the organisers share some links as a kind of pre-reading (they also share the tweet analysis after the chat) and yesterday’s included some useful links on elearning.
What does curation mean to you and how can it be used in learning?
If you read some of the reviews from the recent Learning Live conference you would…
From steady state to ready state: a need for fresh thinking in learning and talent development?
Editor’s note: This is for CIPD members only but worth flagging up as this piece of research has been carried out by organisational learning expert Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith of Surrey University. The research looks at what practitioners do now – steady state – and what they need to be looking at for the future – ready state.