Editor’s note: ‘In order to get more from their employees and contractors, in order to re-engage them, organizations must, simply, give them more. Not as employees, but as human beings.’ A great post on engagement and why organisations need to treat colleagues as humans.
Editor’s note: Dave Kelly looks at how a board game for children introduces coding concepts with any mention of coding or teaching. A good read on how game mechanics can work.
Editor’s note: An interview with Ellen Langer, whose research on mindfulness has greatly influenced thinking across a range of fields, from behavioral economics to positive psychology.
Editor’s note: Science is telling us what we know to be true about how we learn – something John Dewey outlined a century ago. But will data really help personalise the experience? Thanks to @marcoable for sharing.
Editor’s note: Pew has produced a report to mark 25 years of the world wide web. Here are five graphs from that report that show how use of the web has soared as well as what we think of the web.
A couple of years ago, pre-LearnPatch and L&D Connect, I gave a Pecha Kucha presentation…
Editor’s note: Thanks to new observation technologies, powerful software, and statistical methods, the mechanics of collectives are being revealed.
Editor’s note: Could the L&D team help the recruitment team and could this in turn help develop internal skills? Yes, according to Kevin Wheeler’s article.
Editor’s note: Perry Timms, CIPD Social Media Engagement Adviser, provides some tips on using social media and mobile technology to support learning.
Editor’s note: MIT professor Alex Pentland studies how ideas flow through groups and the effect that flow has on productivity, something he calls “Social Physics. He says social physics can predict the creativity and productivity of a team based on their communication.
Her are our tweet highlights from this week’s Chat2lrn #twitter chat on #microlearning. [View…
Editor’s note: Whether you want to use these tools yourself or explore then for inspiration in how to develop apps that provoke behaviour change at work, this is a useful list of consumer productivity enhancing tools.
Editor’s note: Google mixes content with a ‘smart feedback’ system to help guide the learning experience. It’s Google, so probably worth a look . . .
Editor’s note: As machines get faster and more ‘intelligent’, where does that leave us humans? Interesting, and potentially uplifting, piece on what humans bring in the tech age.
Eminent neuroscientist Eric Kandel reflects on how neuroscience developed and how his work on memory…