My reflections on Day 1 of #LT13UK
Editor’s note: Craig Taylor reviews day one of Learning Technologies 2013. These are frank reviews from a learning technologies manager – useful insights and he mentions our Curation Camp.
Browsing: Curated
The power of cartoon faces: telling complex stories simply
Editor’s note: If storytelling is a key part of learning then cartoons are just one of the many tools we can use to create and share more compelling content.
The ten most violated homepage design guidelines
Editor’s note: Usability guru Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen looks at theten usability mistakes that about two-thirds of corporate websites make. Note: this article is nearly 10 years old, so see how far you have come in this time.
Training is like Mexican food
Editor’s note: Andrew Jacobs likens training to making Mexican food. As he says, ‘Over used, the dish is ruined. Too little, and it’s bland and tasteless. Welcome to the L&D world of activities.’
Learning about management from open source projects
Editor’s note: Scott Berkun shares some insights on open source working from his time working at the open source publishing platform WordPress.com.
The ten habits of highly effective brains
Editor’s note: Alvaro Fernandez provides some good lifestyle options we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains.
Report: Most people just trying to get by
Editor’s note: A reflection on designing for behaviour change. Not framed in learning design but interesting insights into designing to help solve people’s problems.
Learning Technologies 2013: Tune into the back channel
Editor’s note: Kate Graham is managing the Twitter backchannel for this week’s Learning Technologies conference. Here she looks at how users can get the most out of the event by following it on Twitter (hashtag is #lt13UK).
Why big data (mostly) can’t help improve teaching
Editor’s note: With all the big data hype, this article looks under the skin of big data in education and whether data can provide actionable pedagogical insights. The article raises some interesting issues around how video, for example, can be usefully measured in terms of learning impact and whether data can be captured to help educators understand how to create a greater impact.
15 tools for better project-based learning
Editor’s note: A useful list for managing projects – has an education slant but these tools will still be useful in different learning contexts.
Neural networking: online social content easier to recall than printed info
Editor’s note: Recollecting Facebook posts is easier than recalling the same information in a book. It also takes less effort to remember posted patter than someone’s face, according to new research.
A retrospective editing of consciousness
Editor’s note: Research suggests that consciousness isn’t ‘filtered’ sensory information, but an active ‘conclusion’ drawn from information distributed across senses, space and time.
Why, to improve memory, we need to think of the brain as a system
Editor’s note: Some useful nights in here – this is a transcript of a conversation of participants on a brain fitness course.
For ‘adaptive learning’ tech, a surge of investment
Editor’s note: Short round-up of three tech companies who have received funding to develop their learning technologies – WizIQ, KnowRe and Area9.
A Twitter story
Editor’s note: A personal perspective on using Twitter, finding people and finding purpose in it all by L&D manager Sukh Pabial.