Editor’s note: This article alludes to some very interesting things such as using data to help hire diverse teams. We know the traditional hiring process based on interviews is laced with biases which sees hiring managers tends towards hiring people like them. Could data help create more diverse teams?
If organisational #agility is important to business success in today’s world, it is critical to…
Researchers in the US have identified three factors that make #teams smart. Writing in The…
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on design shortcuts in learning.…
Editor’s note: This article takes a look at internet psychology and the work of psychologists in trying to understand how the web is changing how we operate at a psychological level.
Editor’s note: It’s mobile, it’s visual, it’s huge and it’s engaging. I don’t see much use of it by organisations though. Why is our default away from visual content when visual content is so powerful?
Editor’s note: It’s interesting to see how the use of MOOC platforms is evolving. Now big companies are working with Coursera to bridge the academic/workplace divide with short courses tackling real world projects.
Editor’s note: Now here’s a thing. We probably all think we know how we learn, but do we? This article looks at 10 ways of learning and assesses how effective they are. If evidence challenges some of our legacy thinking on learning then is it time to change what we do?
Editor’s note: This is an interesting read which shows that neuroscience research suffers from a low number of people taking part in studies. This in turn affects the statistical validity of the research. That’s not to say the research is invalid, it is just worth understanding more about the efficacy of the research, especially as L&D starts to embrace neuroscience with open arms.
In an article for the Guardian, Kate Button, a research psychologist at the University of…
Is hyper-customised learning content the future for learning content?
Editor’s note: The winners from the LPI’s Learning Awards 2015.
Editor’s note: ‘The reason for the failure of blended learning is that L&D really doesn’t want to listen to what learning theory has to tell us and the Blended Learning tag is often a useful way of consolidating the past not the future. A really thought-provoking post from Donald Clark on blended learning.
Editor’s note: Alex Watson has pulled together all the Google Hangout recordings from Learning Technologies into one place. There are some great interviews here.
Last week Sam Burrough and I ran a session at the Learning and Technologies Conference…