Editor’s note: Prof Nick Van Dam’s acceptance speech for the professorship in Corporate Learning and Development at Nyenrode Business Universiteit is a must-read for L&D professionals. It’s a pragmatic, research-based look at the future focus for L&D.
This report amalgamates findings from various research reports to paint a picture of the elearning market. You will need to give quite a lot of information before you can download it!
Editor’s note: In our ‘post-truth’ era we need the skills to sort information and establish its provenance. Some goods here on how to do this with published research.
Editor’s note: What is evidence-based management and what can learning professionals learn from it? This paper explains all and provides some practical example of evidence-based practice.
Editor’s note: Margaret Hefferman suggests that through collaboration organisations can reap the rewards of collective intelligence. This article explores and explains the concept.
Editor’s note: The work of Sandy Pentland was mentioned a couple of times at the CIPD’s annual conference. Here Pentland talks through his concept of social physics and how it explains how we behave as social beings in the workplace.
Editor’s note: Daniel Susskind talks through the book The future of the professions which he co-authored with his father Richard. There are some great insights here into what innovation could like like for L&D and HR.
Editor’s note: Psychologist Alexander Todorov researches the way we perceive others and the information that actually helps us make decisions about others. His work has important implications for recruiting and promoting others.
Editor’s note: Can ephemeral content produced by the likes of Snapchat be useful for learning within the organisation? Quite possibly, according to this article.
Editor’s note: If you are trying to improve a learning product or service then it pays to figure out the job that product or service is there to do. Thanks to Nick Shackleton-Jones for pointing to this.
Editor’s comment: Useful piece of research here into more than half a million videos on Youtube which looks at the relationship between length of video and viewer engagement.
Editor’s note: Where does L&D sit in relation to organisation design? This is an interesting piece that suggests OD and L&D overlap on core areas such as culture, change and transformation.
Editor’s note: Great data and insights here into how people use their phones. It includes a great graphic on how phones are used in a typical day and night.
Editor’s note: This piece is a reminder that the concept of neuroplasticity has its limitations and that the brain is a biological system – no amount of plasticity can change that.
Editor’s note: Are collaborative tools that focus on chat good or bad or productivity? This article discusses the issues.