15 free ebooks about user experience and interface design
Editor’s note: Great free resources on user experience and interface design.
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NextGen: A generational study of millennials in the workforce
Editor’s note: PwC’s NextGen: A global generational study conducted by PwC, the University of Southern California and the London Business School. The study captures the various forces at play that are influencing the experience of Millennial employees. These include: workplace
55 content curation tools to discover and share digital content
Editor’s note: A great list of curation tools – worth a scan to see what’s there and what you might want to try out.
The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel
Editor’s note: Homage to Excel, but will big data see it off?
OECD educationtoday: Learning from other countries’ experiences in education
Editor’s note: A new OECD series of individual Education Policy Outlook Country Profiles does just that: each profile describes how an individual country is responding to key challenges to improve the effectiveness of its education system.
Transitional interfaces
Editor’s note: The nuts and bolts of animated content. As the author says: “Animation leverages an overlooked dimension — time! An invisible fabric which stitches space together. You don’t have to be a math dork to understand this.”
How Facebook design researchers evaluate the first-time user experience
Editor’s note: Chris Dannen, the editor of Co.Labs at FastCompany, sat down with Facebook UX Researcher Marco De Sa to learn his thoughts on enticing first-time users.
Three free guides to understanding Tin Can
Editor’s note: Learning designer and Tin Can API Working Group contributor Andrew Downes shares some Tin Can resources
What do kids really learn from education tech?
Editor’s note: In the race to adopt new technology what do we actually know about how new tech is helping children learn?
Survey uncovers big trends in online learning
Editor’s note: The HotChalk Education Index surveyed more than 25,000 students, teachers, parents, and tutors – here is an overview of the results.
#msloc430 Chat debrief: What contributes to meaningful digital connections?
Editor’s note: Interesting insights into what masters students see as the ingredients for making meaningful digital connections.
Creating the best workplace on earth
Editor’s note: Researchers have been asking executives what they would include if they could design their dream company. So, what would that dream company look like?
Three local councils prove that innovation in the public sector goes beyond doing ‘more for less’
Editor’s note: Thanks to @andrewjacobsld for sharing this link to some new CIPD research into innovation in local councils. You will need to be a member to access but the release sounds interesting: ‘More open leadership behaviours help to create climates of trust and self-belief, giving staff at all levels the confidence to explore both incremental and radical ways of changing the way they work.’
The 5 most common LMS complaints from end users
Editor’s note: Great list from Craig Weiss which will come as little surprise to users and vendors alike.
How the crowd is solving an 800-year-old mystery
Editor’s note: A great tale of how crowdsourcing is helping researchers in their attempts to find the grave of Genghis Khan.