Top ed-tech trends of 2012: the business of ed-tech
Editor’s note: A look at how this market is hotting up where the investment is going.
Browsing: Curated
Google Story Builder
Editor’s note: Google Story Builder enables users to experience the power of Google Docs by creating a story and making a sharable film out of it. This link takes you straight to the tool.
What does the future hold for the mobile industry?
Editor’s note: Some mid-week crystal ball gazing on the future of mobile with interesting expert comment.
A 10-minute, inspirational look at informal learning in action
Editor’s note: An inspirational story of 15 year old Sierra Leone self-made engineer Kelvin Doe. Worth 10 minutes of your time today.
One man, one computer, 10 million students: how Khan Academy is reinventing education
Editor’s note: Is the Khan Academy the future of education? And would that be a good thing? Thanks to Donald H Taylor for sharing.
Exploring social curation
Editor’s note: Research into the use of Pinterest and social curation and how that relates to digital libraries. The research sheds light on how users use Pinterest.
Using Yammer for events
Editor’s note: Useful post from Yammer on how to use the platform for events – brings in some thinking from its recent customer event YamJam12.
Not so well-connected
Editor’s note: We assume learners know how to find things and that they will if the need is urgent enough. But what about our assumptiond Did you vote for your new local Police and Crime Commissioner in the UK elections on Thursday evening last week? Did you know anything about the change in policing accountability or who the candidates
Defining social learning
Editor’s note: Marcia Conner, author of The New social Learning, sets out what social learning is and what it is not.
What’s next for HR? The six competencies HR needs for today’s challenges
Editor’s note: From strategy to looking at HR from the outside in – HR guru Dave Ulrich presents the next stage in HR’s development.
Think differently to break bad habits
Editor’s note: Is social engineering the answer to breaking bad habits? And can you create an environment for yourself that forces you to change behaviour for the better?
Rappers and neuroscientists team to uncover creativity key
Editor’s note: When neuroscience meets rapping we find out how the brain ‘behaves’ to enable rappers to create freestyle raps. An interesting look into the world of spontaneous creative behaviour. Thanks to Mike Collins for sharing this link.
Social learning and competence
Editor’s note: An exploration of the links between social learning, competence and effectiveness.
Costly hi-tech kit lies unused in schools, says study
Editor’s note: A cautionary tale from the education sector in which technology is failing to drive innovation because schools don’t properly understand how to realise the potential of the technology.
Big data in HR: why it’s here and what it means
Editor’s note: We are flooded with data but the real challenge is identifying you want to find out and what problem you want to solve, not what data you want to collect.