Get started with Twitter and HootSuite
Editor’s note: A useful primer on how to manage Twitter using HootSuite.
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Design assessments first
Editor’s note: Better assessments require them to be designed once the performance goals have been established, not when you have designed the course, says Jane Bozarth.
Rewiring corporate learning #8: Get some scouts
The BBC’s former chief learning officer Nigel Paine continues his series on rewiring corporate learning.…
How habits can impact user behavior
Editor’s note: How to change user habits. Think cues and rewards and a whole lot more – all discussed in this practical article.
Disqus CEO Daniel Ha: Four ways web comments will change
Editor’s note: Knowing where people spend their time on a web page and knowing commenting is very important for many users means we can draw our own conclusions about how to develop online learning experiences. Add to this the development of being able to make sense of unstructured data ie user comments and we see how L&D could benefit from sparking and analysing user comments.
Rational thought can override a generous intuition
Editor’s note: Research suggests that our first impulse is to cooperate, but it does not necessarily mean we are genetically hardwired to do so. Instead it may reflect a habit learned from a lifetime of fruitful cooperative experiences.
The chief learning oficer’s seven barriers to making change happen
Editor’s note: Chief learning officers share their barriers to making change happen.
Here’s a Google perk any company can imitate: employee-to-employee learning
Editor’s note: How Google encourages Googlers to teach each other and facilitate peer to peer learning.
Social science insights for HR and L&D – a reading list
Following on from Dr John McGurk’s recent webinar on social science insights for HR, we…
Slidedeck of the week: New social science insights for HR
This deck was presented by Dr John McGurk, learning and talent development advisor at the…
Come and talk communities in learning at the HRD 2013 tweet-up
Following on from the success of our first barcamp-stye event, Curation Camp, we have teamed…
Confessions of an online facilitator
Editor’s note: Some useful tips on running online learning events from a facilitator of online courses.
Wired for speech
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd reflects on the use of voice in technology and how it can be applied in the online learning context, based on having read Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship by Clifford Nass and Scott Brave.
A data scientist’s real job: storytelling
Editor’s note: Here’s how DoSomething.org go from 350 million data points to organisational change, and how organizations grappling with similarly huge amounts of information can do the same.
Why do we call them learners?
Editor’s note: What’s in a name? Tom Spiglanin reflects the use of the term ‘learners’ by learning professionals.