General Electric is ending annual performance reviews
Editor’s note: So, what does it say when the company that invented employee ranking turns away from annual performance reviews?
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The 2015 #DevLearn Backchannel: Curated Resources
Editor’s note: Dave Kelly curates the key resources from this week’s Dev Learn conference in the US. Loads of goodness to click through here.
How Spotify’s Discover Weekly cracked human curation at internet scale
Editor’s note: OK, this is not directly linked to learning but it is a great article on how Spotify is using human music selection and algorithms to curate playlists. This could be the future of information curation . . .
From cognitive psychology to learning design
Editor’s note: A really great session from Dr Chris Atherton on how humans process information and how to design this into learning experiences.
UK businesses miss out on £84 billion a year due to poor people management
Editor’s note: If yet another piece of research was needed to support better people management in organisations then here it is!
Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015
Editor’s note: Jane Hart has just published her annual list of the top 100 tools as used by learning professionals. Always a good read to see what’s in fashion and what is going out of fashion.
HR Meets Data: How Your Boss Will Monitor You To Create The Quantified Workplace
Editor’s note: Scary or the saviour of productivity? This article looks at the quantified employee.
DoD ‘wargames’ look at the future of recruiting, retention challenges
Editor’s note: An interesting approach here to use a war game to try and solve talent management issues in the US military.
How PowerPoint is killing critical thought
Editor’s note: Despite the overstated title of this piece, there are some good points which will challenge anybody’s use of PowerPoint and why they use it.
Do we take our subject matter experts for granted? Curated #chat2lrn tweets
Here are edited highlights on the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on #subject matter experts. [View the…
Video of the week: Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Explained
If computers are going to take over much of the work humans do today it…
What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments
Editor’s note: It’s interesting to see where the conversations around articles are going if they are not happening in the comments section. Some learning here if you are trying to spark conversation around content.
10 Minute Shake Up from NHS and Disney
Editor’s note: This is a great example of using game mechanics to facilitate behaviour change.
Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results, says OECD
Editor’s note: Maybe these research findings are to be expected. The impact of technology on learning at school is playing out in front of us and the results aren’t that good. Maybe we are only at the start of understanding the role/impact of technology in learning.
The Future of Design in Technology
Editor’s note: Look at point three. If these trends are the shape of things to come, all learning tech will need to be incredibly well designed.