Winning hearts with weak arguments
Editor’s note: Recent research suggests that in some cases, providing weak arguments in favor of a candidate or cause leads supporters to engage in greater advocacy than providing strong ones.
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Learning Live 2013 reviewed: tech, vulnerability, data and starting from scratch
LPI chairman Donald Taylor kicked off the Learning Live conference 2013 by telling delegates that…
Learning Live backchannel: Curated resources #LearningLive
Editor’s note: Dave Kelly’s curated resources from this week’s Learning Live conference – lots of great reads here.
The five cognitive distortions of people who get things done
Editor’s note: Interesting list of attributes – some of which were talked about at this week’s Learning Live conference.
TaDaweb lets you create ‘small data’ mashups without writing a single line of code
Editor’s note: “It’s kind of like if Pinterest and Yahoo Pipes had a child.” Interesting tool to scrape and visualise data – the type of tool we might see in L&D?
Tech titans and online education orgs team up with the Open Education Alliance
Editor’s note: Google, AT&T and a host of online education organisations are forming an alliance to develop standards for career readiness.
BPS Research Digest: the digest guide to … human attraction
Editor’s note: What attracts us to each other? Find out here.
Video of the week: BF Skinner on online learning
One for all the learning technologists out there. (H/T Marginal Revolution)
A question on collaboration for L&D
Doug Shaw just posed this question on collaboration at the Learning Live conference. How do…
What L&D needs . . .
Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute Don Taylor just kicked off the institute’s annual…
Twenty-five years later: performance support adoption
Editor’s note: Frank Nguyen on the history and development of performance support and how organisations are designing it in to the learning process.
Design leads us where exactly?: Design and design thinking in public services
Editor’s note: Thankyou to @burrough for sharing this article on design thinking and how, operationally, you can embed design in organisations.
#PSS13 Performance Support Symposium backchannel: curated resources
Editor’s note: Follow the Performance Support Symposium thanks to Dave Kelly’s curated resources.
The new multi-screen world study
Editor’s note: Part of Google Insights research, this study shows how consumers use multiple devices to shop. The type of device experiences needed with learning tech.
Fostering the reciprocity of learning
Editor’s note: Thanks to @dsmith_tmaw for sharing this piece on how a teaching professor facilitates a discussion with students on how the group learns as a whole and how the reciprocal nature of learning might work.