If engagement is left as a purely HR initiative, it will remain on the sidelines
Editor’s note: A look at who should be responsible for employee engagement in the organisation.
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#LSCon – Learning Solutions 2013 Conference backchannel: curated resources
Editor’s note: Missed the Learning Solutions 2013 Conference? Well catch up here courtesy of Dave Kelly’s curated conference resources.
Enterprise Community Management: “joining up” learning and working
Editor’s note: Jane Hart explores how enterprise community management can help bring learning and work together.
Wiley launches digital classroom, video and ebook e-learning site
Editor’s note: The educational and professional publisher is reinventing itself with the launch of DigitalClassroom.com, a new, subscription-based e-learning website.
Supressing the brain’s thought ‘filter’ can allow for more creativity
Editor’s note: Researchers show that inhibiting the prefrontal cortex – the brain’s thought ‘filter’ can lead to more creativity.
Brit training budgets battered
Editor’s note: Survey of 750 L&D professionals shows concern over budgets but pay remains stable.
#PunkHR – it’s about companions not compactions. The uncompany part 1
Editor’s note: Perry Timms on the power of the network and how networks help us find our ‘companions’ versus being ‘forced’ to work with others in the more traditional sense of the workplace.
Mozilla launches Open Badges 1.0, a new standard to recognize and verify online learning and education
Editor’s note: Mozilla launches its Open Badges project to help learners and organisations earn and give badges.
How WordPress thrives with a 100% remote workforce
Editor’s note: learning points from the Wordpress experience of being a 100% distributed workforce.
How emotional connections can trigger creativity and learning
Editor’s note: How connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses impact learning.
Managing the visibility of knowledge work
Editor’s note: Jim McGee on the the need to make knowledge work more visible – something that social networking and micro-blogging tools provide us.
15 free learning tools you’ve probably never heard of
Editor’s note: Three out of the 15 resources are highlighted here – always good to see what’s out there in terms of resources and how people are developing and sharing learning content.
Playing action videogames improves visual search
Editor’s note: Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a relatively short time, improves visual search ability.
Our brains, and how they’re not as simple as we think
Editor’s note: Beware the folk psychology around neuroscience – of particular importance to L&D.
The 10 most popular TED-Ed lessons so far
Editor’s note: Amazing lessons from TED. Lessons in how to do great video content?