Is L&D ready for the future?
Editor’s note: LPI chairman Donald Taylor on results from the LPI’s Capability Map that have been released today. Is L&D the bottleneck to business transformation?
Browsing: Curated
It’s in your genes
Editor’s note: A good article on neurohype and neuroskepticism and the need to find a place in between.
Learning and the changing workplace
Editor’s note: Tom Spiglanin looks at how change will happen in L&D – technology will just sweep it into the cloud, and then what?
Learning to Change
Editor’s note: This report represents the script for why L&D needs to change. Thanks to @lesleywprice for sharing.
Watering the roots of knowledge through collaborative learning
Editor’s note: A look at what education, especially higher education could look like. The work at Quest University, Canada, looks compelling.
Take a graphic stroll through your own personal meta data
Editor’s note: An example of a tool to help filter your email data – forget information overload, let’s focus on the filters.
The science of familiar strangers: society’s hidden social network
Editor’s note: This is interesting in tow ways 1)
Compliance – e-learning’s greatest friend and worst enemy
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd reflects on Towards Maturity’s latest research into compliance training.
Professional communities, barriers to inclusion, and the value of a posse
Editor’s note: An academic focus but pertinent points on what makes communities inclusive, relevant and sustainable.
Beyond Kirkpatrick: evaluating informal learning
Editor’s note: A useful blog post on measuring informal learning ahead of today’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat on the same topic.
Mental toughness helped Nik Wallenda – 7 ways it can help you too
Editor’s note: Some useful – and interesting – tips from Nik Wallenda who has just walked a tightrope stretched across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon.
Engaging eLearning – The Journey So Far
Editor’s note: This is what your elearning could look like . . . thanks to @weelearning for sharing.
The neuroscience of social influence
Editor’s note: fascinating research into the neuroscience behind idea sharing. The results make for interesting reading: “The spread of ideas depends on the messenger’s social-cognitive abilities, affect, and motivations, and less on IQ-type intelligence. None of the stages involved in social influence recruited brain regions typically associated with higher-level abstract reasoning and executive functioning (the frontal-parietal brain network).”
Citrix’s collaboration platform Podio gets Skype-like video conferencing and in-chat file sharing
Editor’s note: Interesting to see Podio, Citrix’s online collaboration platform service, adding Skype-like services. Getting ahead of Yammer in its functionality as a collaboration tool?
All together now
Editor’s note: Steve Wheeler continues his series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books. In this post, he looks at Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.