Editor’s note: Grockit, owner of Learnist, the Pinterest for learning, has raised another big chunk of funding. There’s plenty of venture capital in education technology and it is interesting to see this spill into the general life-long learning space.
Editor’s note: Slide deck from Andy Petroski on knowledge management and where it fits with social learning. Some useful slides explaining the difference between training, knowledge management and performance support.
Editor’s note: How school children are using content curation tool Learnist to gather, filter and share information as a part of their studies.
Editor’s note: With the surge in interest in education technology it is good to see what else is actually going on. You won’t be surprised that it reflects some of what goes on in corporate learning.
Editor’s note: Researcher’s identify the problem with a standardised measure of how intelligent you are.
Editor’s note: If these are the trends – and they seems pretty realistic – how will they impact on L&D?
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of jargon in L&D. That includes the people who are at the end of L&D interventions. Andrew Jacobs takes a tongue in cheek look at what to call your learners.
Editor’s note: A great list of videos from Larry Ferlazzo – wide ranging too. Whether it’s Bloom or Khan, there will be something worth watching.
Editor’s note: The mega forces driving sustainability deep into business — such as climate change, resource constraints, and transparency — are getting stronger and leading companies continue to evolve more sustainable strategies and tactics.
Editor’s note: Interesting to see learning tech that is used outside of the US and UK. This Polish social learning platform has 8 million unique users a month and operates in 17 countries.
Editor’s note: This week’s Chat2lrn Twitter chat is on the theme of reflection. As ever, the organisers have provided a range of resources to read and watch ahead of the chat this Thursday.
Editor’s note: Youtube has launched an app – Youtube Capture – that enables you to shoot, edit and share video footage. Looks simple to use and very useful for creating better quality films.
Editor’s note: More future gazing this time from IBM. It might be hard to imagine, but IBM scientists see cognitive computing as the future and that means computers that can think.
Editor’s note: Steve Wheeler takes a look at the Muse ‘brain sensing’ headband from InteraXon. This technology enables you to control computers with your mind. The future is here!
Editor’s note: MWD Advisors present the ten most popular blog posts from their collaboration research program published over the last 12 months.