Preparing for a future of technology driven corporate learning
Editor’s note: This line says it all: ‘The future of business is the future of corporate L&D.’ And that future is technology driven . . .
Browsing: Curated
20 different ways to buy ebooks, digital comics and etextbooks
Editor’s note: This article will bring you up to speed on how the ebook market is developing. If you consider yourself to be a publisher then this is a must-read.
Is your CEO serious about innovation? 10 questions to ask
Editor’s note: A good list of questions to ask the business – and to see how serious the business is about innovation.
HR leaders on managing complexity
Editor’s note: Interesting to see how HR execs feel about increasing complexity around how business works – essentially, the context for learning initiatives.
Shape the future of OD in the NHS
Editor’s note: Great NHS resource on organisational development here which you can contribute to.
Helping staff maintain a healthy outlook
Editor’s note: How UKFast, an award-winning internet hosting company, benefits by helping its workers to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.
Mobile learning for the NHS
Editor’s note: Two evidence-based research reports into mobile learning. A must-read for anyone wanting to roll out learning apps.
Personality, gender, and age in the language of social media: the open-vocabulary approach
Editor’s note: Analysis of how we use language across social media sites to describe personality, gender, and age and how personality and behaviour can be mapped through language analysis.
Surveys in L&D: Curated tweets from #chat2lrn Twitter chat
Here are our curated tweets from today’s chat2lrn Twitter chat on surveys in L&D. [View…
The NHS and Harvard – how training and development can do more than just upskill
Editor’s note: Prof Cary Cooper bridges L&D with health and wellbeing as the NHS prepares to join forces with Harvard to deliver leadership training.
In conversation with neuroscientists
Editor’s note: A look at how neuroscience is developing and what is providing us in terms of helping us to quite literally picture the mind.
SomeOne/Else develops ‘internet for people without internet’
Editor’s note: Look to the developing world for mobile innovation. Here is a great example of a forthcoming knowledge sharing service for farmers.
Motivation a key factor in preserving brainpower later in life
Editor’s note: Wanting to learn and keeping your brain active as you get older will help cognitive function later in life, according to this research.
Survey says
Editor’s note: Here is the primer for today’s Chat2lrn Twitter chat on surveys – it is increasingly a required skill in L&D but not one many L&D professionals have according to the LPI Capability Map.
Can internal crowdfunding help companies surface their best ideas?
Editor’s note: A look at how the internal crowdfunding of ideas has worked at IBM.