Editor’s note: This article on managing conflict in presentations ran alongside this week’s Chat2lrn Twitter chat and it provides some great insights and tips on managing conflicts when presenting. Well worth a read if you have to manage conflict, whatever the context.
Editor’s note: There are just too many good resources on this list. From business and marketing apps, to picture resources to writing tools – there’ll be something here worth sharing with colleagues.
Editor’s note: The CIPD’s chief economist Mark Beaston looks at why training in the UK is so bad despite the fact employees are keen to learn.
Editor’s note: Social media and mobile phones have given learners everywhere a capability to discover, create, repurpose, share and amplify content, according to Steve Wheeler.
Editor’s note: Norman Pickavance asks some big questions of business in this article. In particular, what can UK organisations do to develop long-term, sustainable businesses. He contends that a two-tier workforce is not the way forward.
Editor’s note: This article alludes to some very interesting things such as using data to help hire diverse teams. We know the traditional hiring process based on interviews is laced with biases which sees hiring managers tends towards hiring people like them. Could data help create more diverse teams?
Editor’s note: This article takes a look at internet psychology and the work of psychologists in trying to understand how the web is changing how we operate at a psychological level.
Editor’s note: It’s mobile, it’s visual, it’s huge and it’s engaging. I don’t see much use of it by organisations though. Why is our default away from visual content when visual content is so powerful?
Editor’s note: It’s interesting to see how the use of MOOC platforms is evolving. Now big companies are working with Coursera to bridge the academic/workplace divide with short courses tackling real world projects.
Editor’s note: Now here’s a thing. We probably all think we know how we learn, but do we? This article looks at 10 ways of learning and assesses how effective they are. If evidence challenges some of our legacy thinking on learning then is it time to change what we do?
Editor’s note: This is an interesting read which shows that neuroscience research suffers from a low number of people taking part in studies. This in turn affects the statistical validity of the research. That’s not to say the research is invalid, it is just worth understanding more about the efficacy of the research, especially as L&D starts to embrace neuroscience with open arms.
Editor’s note: The winners from the LPI’s Learning Awards 2015.
Editor’s note: ‘The reason for the failure of blended learning is that L&D really doesn’t want to listen to what learning theory has to tell us and the Blended Learning tag is often a useful way of consolidating the past not the future. A really thought-provoking post from Donald Clark on blended learning.
Editor’s note: Alex Watson has pulled together all the Google Hangout recordings from Learning Technologies into one place. There are some great interviews here.
Editor’s note: This is a great story of the ups and downs of Lego, of change, innovation and creativity.