Stanford expands its online innovation program
Editor’s note: interesting and useful resources on innovation – and Stanford says it has had success in the way it delivers the course online too.
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Minecraft in education: pros and cons
Editor’s note: Useful discussion on the merits or otherwise of gaming in education. Also a good background read when considering gaming in organisational learning.
The future of enterprise collaboration is social – and seamless
Editor’s note: A foreword (and link) to the Accenture Technology Vision 2013 report looking at the enterprise shift to ‘seamless’ collaboration.
The hidden biases in big data
Editor’s note: Examples of how big data can miss the real story – important to understand the biases in the data we collect.
Curated tweets from #chat2lrn chat on ‘what learners want’
Here are a curated election of tweets from the chat2lrn Twitter chat on #what learners…
Video of the week: Building new experiences with glass
Google’s Timothy Jordan gives a sneak peek at the Google Mirror API – which developers…
Functional literacy – what is it and why do our children need it?
Editor’s note: This short audio interview looks at functional literacy in children – something that is arguably just as important in adults too.
Redesigning the conference experience
Editor’s note: Video of weelearning’s event on design thinking and how it works. Includes how participants redesigned the conference experience.
What Learners Want!
Editor’s note: Today’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat is on what learners want. So, How learner-centric are your activities?
Learning is not enough: the behavior framework
Editor’s note: Nigel Paine and Nic Laycock discuss behaviours and what you expect from people and how that fits in to learning.
Design for the glance, in a distracted world
Editor’s note: How should we design for the distracted? Keep it simple . . .
LearnPatch’s pick of the top L and D blog posts: March 2013
In March’s round-up of the best L&D blogs we have a diverse range of posts…
The five defining characteristics of Google+
Editor’s note: A ready-reckoner for Google+ – includes the main features and why they might be useful.
The evolution of the networked enterprise: new McKinsey research
Editor’s note: Adoption of social technology is starting to plateau, the next step is overcoming barriers to increase productivity, says McKinsey research into the use of social tools in the enterprise.
The psychology of language: why are some words more persuasive than others?
Editor’s note: A look at how the brain processes language and gives it meaning.