Editor’s note: Is neuroscience going to blow apart theories around how we learn? This study shows differences in the way men and women process visual information.
Editor’s note: An infographic produced by Google to show how we consume information, including the number of screens we use. If you design learning content then this research is significant.
Editor’s note: So what’s all the fuss about neuroscience? This article provides a good overview of the progress being made in neuroscience and the benefits we could see from advanced brain scanning.
Editor’s note: How a technical college adopted ipads as an integral part of its learning. Impressive results for both the learners and the college.
Editor’s note: A professor reviews running his first massive open online course (MOOC), which attracted 40,000 students from 113 countries.
Editor’s note: A research project into our digital gestures by Curious Rituals makes for a great – and well illustrated – read. A freely-available PDF of the research results is worth a download.
Editor’s note: So your colleagues are mostly using it but the organisation is concerned that colleagues use it too much. So, why don’t we just use Facebook to help colleagues learn? There are lots of ideas on how to in this list.
Editor’s note: A set of videos in which social anthropolgist Timothy Ingold sets out his thinking on the social brain. Lots to watch and consider for learning professionals.
Editor’s note: A review of Tali Sharot’s book The Optimism Bias by a neuroscience blogger. Interesting insights into a bias that will affect learners, their behaviours and performance.
Editor’s note: Study shows Japanese children learn English quicker when they correct the intentional translation errors of a toy robot – exploiting a well-known fact among educators that students learn best when they help teach others.
Editor’s note: How can you analyse what you don’t know? Interesting look at why some amount of rote learning could be a good thing.
Editor’s note: Digital natives need guidance to navigate the digital world–both in terms of learning how to discern important and relevant information from a large swath of data, and also to be able to inquire and solve problems that take time, thought, and energy.
Editor’s note: Russian education platform Dnevnik gets funding to expand into the EU, China, Israel, the US and develop a system of cataloging and distributing educational content under its ClassedIn brand.
Editor’s note: A look at the Pinterest for learning – Learnist – and the Facebook for education – Lore.
Editor’s note: This learning infographic explains what learning data is, how it can be used, limitations, costs, why it is not widely adopted and how analytics will affect the future of learning.