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 . . .
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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.
70:20:10: curated links
This piece of curation on the 70:20:10 model was first written for Personnel Today who…
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.
World of Learning day two: leadership development and a three-year mobile learning journey
Sameena Bashey, country HR director at GE opened day two of the World Of Learning…
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.