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12 Principles of Multimedia Learning
Editor’s note: Here is a checklist of the principles that should underpin all learning design courtesy of Dr Richard Mayer.
Browsing: Curated
19 minutes
Talking Multimedia Learning with Dr. Richard Mayer
Editor’s note: This video gives you a flavour of the research and insights of Dr Richard Mayer, Professor of Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara. Mayer has spent his career researching the science of learning. His thinking should inform corporate learning design.
Check your Biases
Editor’s note: This article looks at cognitive bias in the particle physicist research community. it’s amazing how super smart people are in denial about group-think. The piece highlights some of the biases worth considering when it comes to evaluating information.
1 minute (plus reading time for resources)
National Apprenticeship Week 2019
Editor’s note: Next week (4-8 March 2019) is National Apprenticeship Week and the UK government has put together some resources to help employers get involved and to promote what they are doing with apprenticeships. If you have apprentices, then find out how you can celebrate them and their work.
2 minutes
The Online Educator: People and Pedagogy
Editor’s note: This four-week, free course from FutureLearn looks interesting. It focuses on design, innovation and accessibility as well as building your own online identity. The course has recently started and will be running again in May.
5 minutes (plus links)
A Look Back At The Year’s Best From Learning Science And Instructional Design
Editor’s note: Mike Taylor has curated an excellent list of links about learning science and design from the last 12 months. There will be something of interest in here!
3 minutes
Video marketing statistics to know for 2019
Editor’s note: There are some useful stats here to make the case for using more video content in learning. If video is so important for marketing, why not for learning?
7 minutes
The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights
Editor’s note: This is a great read. Full of data and tips to help find and share obvious insights. As the author says, “I was wrong to place such a high premium on the unexpected. Findings don’t have to be earth-shattering to be useful. In fact, I’ve come to believe that in many workplaces, obvious insights are the most powerful forces for change.”
7 minutes
Looking at Learning Through an Evolutionary Lens
Editor’s note: This is a fascinating exploration of how we have evolved to learn. A most read for L&D professionals keen to understand some of the science behind how humans learn.
2 minutes
Google Spent Years Studying Effective Bosses. Now They Teach New Managers These 6 Things
Editor’s: Here are some great insights – and tips – on developing effective management training. These tips are based on a vast amount of research by Google into what makes an effective manager.
7 minutes
Competitive advantage with a human dimension: From lifelong learning to lifelong employability
Editor’s note: There are some interesting pointers in this article as to what corporate learning could evolve in to. It’s less about learning and more about employability, so more of a focus on helping people develop the skills at certain times of change throughout their working lives.
15 minutes
Show your work
Editor’s note: At this week’s Learning Technologies conference Jane Bozarth, author of Show Your Work, ran a session on how to nurture better sharing of knowledge within organisations. Bozarth shared some great examples of how employees and organisations can do this.
15 minutes
The 3 myths about the future of work (and why they are not true)
Editor’s note: Daniel Susskind, author of The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, delivered a keynote at the Learning Technologies Conference looking at the future of work. In this short video, Susskind covers some of those themes.
20 minutes
The Transformation Journey – 2019 Annual Research Report
Editor’s note: Learning analysts Fosway Group this week launched their research into the learning technology landscape. With around 800 responses from L&D professionals, this provides some useful insights especially if you are looking to procure learning technologies. A stand out stat from me is that 50% of respondents say they are not satisfied with their learning technologies.
20 minutes
The Learning Technology Landscape
Editor’s note: Learning analysts Fosway Group this week launched their research into the learning technology landscape. With around 800 responses from L&D professionals, this provides some useful insights especially if you are looking to procure learning technologies. A stand out stat from me is that 50% of respondents say they are not satisfied with their learning technologies.