Meet Patrick Mullarkey of Mentoring Mullarkey
Editor’s note: Interview with L&D consultant Patrick Mullarkey in which he says his blog helped him secure his first L&D role. Not often you hear how blogging helps land jobs.
Browsing: Curated
Learning and the emerging science of behavior change, aka ‘nudging’
Editor’s note: The emerging field of behaviour change theory suggests new ways in which networked technologies might be used as a form of pedagogical persuasion to influence and shape learners’ behavior, even at the unconscious or irrational level.
How to increase activity in your community
Editor’s note: If you want to understand the best ways to cultivate and grow communities – and that includes learning communities – then this 1hr 18m audio is worth a listen. Richard Millington is the author of the book Buzzing Communities and in this talk he tackles some of the most-asked questions about growing and running online communities. Thanks to Mike Collins for sharing.
Open Badges in healthcare professional education
Editor’s note: Slide deck on Mozilla Open badges from Mozilla’s Dr Doug Belshaw. Slides give a good sense of how the concept works.
7 fails in elearning and 7 solutions
Editor’s note: A thought-provoking talk from Donald Clark – the video is around 50m and throughout Clark provides some challenging reflections and ideas.
What price MOOCs?
Editor’s note: Time to get your head around MOOCs – massive open online courses – says Donald Taylor. They will become a part of the learning mix and L&D professionals will need to know about how they work and their commercial models.
Can text messages (SMS) support learning?
Editor’s note: A look at research that shows text messaging can be an effective way of motivating learners.
Models, Theories and Personality Tools
Editor’s note: Reflections on learning theories and models by Sukh Pabial. Do we learn more in life than we do from our theories and models?
The eLearning Guild: conference videos
Editor’s note: Videos from DevLearn2012 are now available, but you have to be an Elearning Guild member to access them.
Twitter users can download their entire archive by year-end; now sees 1bn tweets every 2.5 days
Editor’s note: It took three years, two months and one day for the first billion tweets to be sent on Twitter. it now takes two and a half days. Not only is this a reflection of how technology is changing but it also serves as a reminder of the exponential rise in data on the web. Clearly, maligning sense of the data is a huge challenge – something the new Twitter archive might be able to help with.
Are you the learning architect or the learning builder?
Editor’s note: Jonathan Vernon pulls apart the idea of the learning architect. Can L&D be the architects or are they the builders?
Parabolic learning
Editor’s note: Steve Wheeler shares what happened when he threw an idea into his class . . . the result is still work in progress but it involves finding, sharing and curating content and shows where just a germ of an idea can take you (both the teacher and the student).
Manage data with organisational structure
Editor’s note: How can organisations reap the rewards of the data they produce. A federated approach involving departmental data groups could be the answer . . .
Experiments in social learning
Editor’s note: Dave Briggs shares how he developed a more social approach to learning by creating some simple sites to help support a face to face event. A simple and effective approach. Thanks to Shirley Ayres for sharing.
Khan Academy releases new app for iPhone and iPod Touch
Editor’s note: Khan Academy has added to it’s iPad app with an iPhone and iPod app – providing access (bot not interactivity) with its thousands of videos.