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.
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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.
LPI Capability Map shows yawning gaps in L&D skills
Learning and development professionals say they are strong in traditional skills such as face-to-face delivery…
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?
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?
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)