The case for paying people more
Editor’s note: Interesting analysis of how paying workers more might actually help the economy.
Browsing: Curated
Moves to help more disabled people into the workplace
Editor’s note: The UK government has announced new efforts to help disabled people get into work. Less than 50% of the UK’s seven million disabled adults are in work currently.
The neuroscience of everybody’s favorite topic
Editor’s note: Why, in a world full of ideas to discover, develop, and discuss, do people spend the majority of their time talking about themselves?
Top ten learning management systems
Editor’s note: Craig Weiss provides an update on his list of the top learning management systems. Success Factors in at number four?!
The rise of UX leadership
Editor’s note: User experience is the new fashion in business – and rightly so. What does UX leadership look like?
Top 5 benefits of open badges for corporates
Editor’s note: Get up to speed with badges and their application in corporate learning care of Ryan Tracey.
Working out loud: a #SocialAge trait
Editor’s note: Talking out loud, or rather narrating your work, ideas and thinking, seems to be all the rage. Here Julian Stodd reflects on his working out loud.
Pew: teachers believe digital tools encourage sharing and collaboration in classrooms
Editor’s note: According to a Pew survey, the majority of middle and high school teachers believe digital tools increase student collaboration with apps like GoogleDocs, and help them share their work through social media.
Visual book review: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything
Editor’s note: A recommendation here from @designedlearnin. An interesting looking book reviewed in visual notes.
Why behavior change apps fail to change behaviour
Editor’s note: useful insights for L&D here. A look at fitness apps and the difference between users wanting to do something and having to do something.
The trouble with owning your own learning data
Editor’s note: Interesting and highly relevant insights into personal data and personal learning data in particular as Ben Betts looks to put his Learning locker into beta.
How I would approach creating compliance e-learning
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd sets out how he would design compliance elearning.
PCs and tablets won’t be marketplace rivals for long
Editor’s note: How should we bethinking about technology? Although PCs are in decline they represent a big chunk of the market. Maybe consumers are just going with what they feel comfortable with . . .
When feeling anxious, it really does help to get more sleep
Editor’s note: A look at the wider context in which we learn, this piece examines the role of sleep in helping beat anxiety.
How do you measure love (or employee engagement)?
Editor’s note: Much like love, employee engagement is difficult to measure. Maybe using proxy questions is the way forward?