BYOD and mobile videoconferencing: hype and reality
Editor’s note: In-depth look at the reality of videoconferencing from your own mobile device plus a look at where this technology is taking us.
Browsing: Curated
The ultimate guide to infographics
Editor’s note: Find out what an infographic is and how they work and then check out the further reading shared in this short article.
Can self-awareness be taught?
Editor’s note: As learning is mainly a collaborative, social process then surely we all need to have some self-awareness for the learning process and outcomes to be as good as they can be? So, how do we become more self-aware?
Raspberry Pi: the small computer with the big ambition
Editor’s note: An interview with Eben Upton, founder and trustee of the not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, who is trying to reconnect children with learning programming skills.
Aggregation rumination
Editor’s note: Not heard of the term ‘aggregation architecture’ but this post looks into it. The focus is on MOOCs but the thinking could be applied across all learning systems and for all learners.
Tin Can: what SCORM isn’t
Editor’s note: A look at the benefits of the Tin Can API – platform agnostic, mobile, improved data . . . the list goes on.
How TfL used Yammer during the London 2012 Olympics
Editor’s note: OK, it is by Yammer about Yammer but nonetheless a good look at how Olympic Travel Ambassadors used the network to stay in touch and share information.
Sharing in learning and the vulnerability of sharing: research into music in learning
Editor’s note: Insights into how people share information, which is clearly critical to ideas of social learning.
No set hours or defined offices will be the norm, says academic
Editor’s note: Futurologist Dr Carl Rohde presents his 10 drivers of change in the workplace of the future.
eLearning Guild research: What are the benefits of social learning?
Editor’s note: A look at the benefits of learning from others. This article looks at just one part of Ben Betts’ recent report for the guild into social learning.
Top open source learning management systems
Editor’s note: An area of the market which seems less well talked about in the corporate world. Some vendors here you might not be quite so familiar with.
We have a wheel, we built a cart
Editor’s note: Nick Shackleton-Jones’ fascinating look at the evolution of the induction process at BP. Great he is able to share these insights.
HR Technology Conference 2012: mobile, LMS and cloud update
Editor’s note: Round-up of highlights from this week’s recent HR Tech Conference in Chicago by analyst Josh Bersin. Provides context to the ‘people tech’ space in corporates and includes some points on the LMS market.
Social media – the followership
Editor’s note: A ‘follower’s’ perspective on why leaders should tweet their heart out.
Enterprise IT now competing with apps stores, mobile devices
Editor’s note: A report from the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise Conference, held in the US. The article covers some of the issues facing organistions as they try to keep up with the rapid growth in app usage.