Life insurance 2020: Competing for a future
Editor’s note: Look at how life insurance companies will be using big data to transform the way they do business. Useful insights on the potential for big data.
Browsing: Curated
Is seeing believing?
Editor’s note: Is seeing believing? Not according to the McGurk Effect.
Focus on ‘resilience’ to improve wellbeing, says Shell’s health chief
Editor’s note: Interesting to look at stress from a different perspective – rather than manage it, help develop colleagues’ resilience.
Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, godfather of free online education, changes course
Editor’s note: The fascinating story of Udacity and what it has become. A must-read to understand the realities of MOOCs – from the business models to numbers of students actually completing courses.
Bigger groups mean complex cultures
Editor’s note: Two teams of scientists have independently shown that the strength of cumulative culture depends on the size and interconnectedness of social groups.
PLN or CoP?
Editor’s note: Steve Wheeler on the differences between Personal Learning Networks and Communities of Practice.
The future of business education is ‘blended learning’
Editor’s note: Business education will be more blended in future, according to an expert panel. Think more lifelong learning than MBA . . .
Can virtual classrooms beat face-to-face interaction?
Editor’s note: Are these the same challenges faced in corporate learning? Virtual classrooms can we work but there needs to be support and community interaction.
10 surprising social media statistics that might make you rethink your social strategy
Editor’s note: Good to see stats that might challenge perceptions around social media usage. Look at the fastest growing cohort on Twitter, for example.
Three skills every 21st-century manager needs
Editor’s note: The role of managers in learning is raising its head – look at the CIPD conference talks and City & Guilds learning trends, for example. This article suggests three surprising new skills for managers.
Sharing the loves: Understanding the how and why of online content curation
Editor’s note: An academic paper looking at how people curate based on research of Last.fm and Pinterest users. Thanks to @burrough fro sharing.
Neuroscience: A head start for brain imaging
Editor’s note: The focus of this article is on getting work in brain imaging. It also provides insights into brain imaging and how it is developing.
The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual
Editor’s note: Jane Hart has written a chapter of this useful looking book, produced by the Elearning Network’s Rob Hubbard.
Three creativity challenges from IDEO’s leaders
Editor’s note: Three simple challenges to get you thinking more creatively – can be done solo or in groups.
Parents, you know this. They do what you do, not what you say!
Editor’s note: This quote says it all: ‘Collaboration per se is not the end goal [of social apps]. Well-designed implementations of social apps aim to make it easier for people to get their work done. They are focused and specific to each worker’s needs.’