Editor’s note: Oscar Berg walks us through some interesting studies and research on social business. Berg highlights the key findings from each survey, so a great post to get up to speed on social business.
Editor’s note: Luc Galoppin says that online information and collaboration is helping to rewire our brains. He contends that collaboration is becoming the fastest way to boost productivity and that social architects will be the ones who will facilitate this collaboration.
Editor’s note: Introducing game mechanics into its online leadership academy has seen an increase of 37% in users returning to the site each week. This article looks at the ingredients for the success.
Editor’s note: L&D manager Sukh Pabial lays down a storylling challenge for the L&D community.
Editor’s notes: Jane Bozarth reflects on three areas of learning from her Nuts and Bolts articles for Learning Solutions Magazine: design, reflection and showing how change can bring value.
Editor’s note: And the answer is that we all have a kind of photographic memory, in that most people’s memory for visual material is much better and more detailed than our recall of most other kinds of material.
Editor’s note: BP’s Nick Shackleton-Jones provides his list of learning themes for the year ahead. No new shiny in here but more on general themes.
Editor’s note: Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Performance Technologies, selects her 50 favourite learning-related reads for 2012.
Editor’s note: Are we being made more intelligent by our habituated uses of technology, or are we becoming smarter because we have more opportunities to create our own content, and think more deeply about it? Steve Wheeler discusses.
Editor’s note: We are big fans of the Harvard Business Review blog network so are delighted HBR has pulled together its best of the year blog posts.
Editor’s note: Great insights into how to use rewards using ‘player journey diagrams’. If you are looking at gamification then this is a good read.
Editor’s notes: And the three are: MOOCs, data and start-ups . . . so where was the excitement in L&D in 2012?
Editor’s note: Yesterday’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat was on the subject of reflection. It’s that time of year and Julian Stodd shares his approach.
Editor’s note: Donald H Taylor is a familiar face to many in L&D. It has been a big year for Don, the Learning and Performance Institute and the Learning Technologies conference, all of which he reflects on in this piece.
Editor’s note: On a personal level, some useful apps to explore. On a professional level, some great apps to take inspiration from.