Happiness at work depends on a good salary, but also on how much colleagues earn
Editor’s note: Researchers show that an important factor in happiness at work is not how much you earn but how what you earn compares to your peers.
Browsing: Curated
Changemakrs looks to reinvent inspirational quotes for a more social web
Editor’s note: We all love a good quote and now good quotes will be easier to find thanks to start-up Changemakrs . . .
Google says apps for education now has more than 20 million users
Editor’s note: Changing the way students and teachers collaborate? Apps for education is growing at five million new users a year . . .
MindTouch social help system aligns with Salesforce ecosystem, exemplifies what Oracle lacks
Editor’s note: What a user guide or manual could be like . . .
Making sense of the 8 elements of digital literacy
Editor’s notes: How Bath University is making use of Doug Belshaw’s framework for understanding digital literacies as outlined in his book The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. Find out what those eight key elements are.
Why (and how) you should create a personal learning network
Editor’s note: If you believe that your networks are your new learning then this article is worth a look. Focused on the education space but useful tips for anyone.
Research for practitioners: social interaction, belief, and learning
Editor’s note: Useful new series examining key bits of research and their relevance for learning professionals. First up, a look at whether our beliefs around interacting with people versus machines affects learning.
A great new feature from Youtube: add quizzes to your videos
Editor’s note: Youtube is developing a useful looking tool – Video Questions Editor Beta. It promises to provide a way to run quizzes on videos. It’s a beta project but worth taking a look.
I’m speaking at #DevLearn 12
Editor’s note: Good to see some UK learning professionals speaking at the forthcoming DevLearn conference. Craig Taylor will be talking about mobile and in this video asks viewers to consider three questions on mobile usage.
How Wikipedia is built
Editor’s note: Fascinating look at the Wikipedia story – where it came from and how it works.
Social learning: answers to 8 crucial questions
Editor’s note: Ben Betts reflects on his recent research report in to social learning which he produced for the eLearning Guild. Some interesting thoughts on the role of the learning professional in a more ’social’ world.
Mobile phone culture: How cultural differences affect mobile use
Editor’s note: News network CNN is running a month-long look into mobile usage entitled ‘Our Mobile Society’. This article has a look at how mobiles are used around the world and includes a couple of useful links to research into mobile usage.
Enterprise 2.0 transition
Editor’s note: Harold Jarche’s notes from the E20 Meetup in Paris which discussed the role of organisational development and HR in the Enterprise 2.0 game play. In particular, how OD and HR can support adoption and transformation processes.
Cracking the nut with Jam, SAP moves social tools out of the silo and into business apps
Editor’s note: SAP is rebuilding its social tools with a service called Jam that it will launch in November. What’s interesting here is that this is not social for social’s sake. This is about ‘social glue’ enabling sharing across all apps. Worth watching.
The future of L&D
Editor’s notes: David Goddin’s review of Training Journal’s L&D2020 event on “The new L&D skill set – building relationships with the business”. Raises some interesting questions about the future mindset required for L&D professionals.