What UX methods to use and when to use them: measuring usability
Editor’s note: A good overview of usability testing methods. If you need to get up to speed on this fast, then this is a useful resource.
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Learning Futures Lab
Editor’s note: This looks like a useful resource – a place of experimentation that will look beyond current teaching practice.
The learning content pyramid
Editor’s note: Donald H Taylor starts his post by asking how much learning content you produce in your organisation and then follows on with a discussion of the different types. Is this what learning content looks like in your organisation, he asks.
Alexander Graham Bell on creativity, innovation, and success
Editor’s notes: Some great insights here from the inventor of the telephone.
We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all.
Editor’s note: A look at why the Government’s Digital Service is choosing HTML 5 over native apps. Thanks to @danroddy and @maberdour for sharing.
Connectability
Editor’s note: Mark Britz on the skill of connecting and why it’s one for all L&D professionals to adopt.
Alan Sugar’s attitude to apprenticeships is all too typical in Britain
Editor’s note: The Observer’s Will Hutton on why apprenticeships are important for the UK, employers and learners and why they have an image problem right now. This week is national Apprenticeship Week, by the way.
Social bookmarking: a gateway to social media literacy?
Editor’s note: Mike Taylor of the usefulness of social bookmarks for saving and sharing what you are reading, watching and listening to.
Barrier to scale?
Editor’s note: Clark Quinn on the need for mechanisms to ‘handle meaningful activities’ that will lead us to deeper understanding. Something a MOOC potentially cannot offer.
“Gender differences in leadership are a myth”
Editor’s note: A doctoral project says there is no difference in the leadership styles of men and women and that in groups comprised of both genders, an androgynous leadership style was found to be the best for creating a climate for innovation.
Slidedeck of the week – Unpacking Intuition, professor Eugene Sadler-Smith
This is the slide deck on Unpacking Intuition from Eugene Sadler-Smith, professor of organisational behaviour…
Curated tweets from #chat2lrn Twitter chat on social media in formal learning
These are the curated tweets from chat2lrn Twitter chat on Social Media in Formal Learning…
SXSWedu half time report
Editor’s note: a temperature check on the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas. Gives a flavour of tech developments in the education space.
Do-gooder or Ne’er-do-well? Behavioral science explains patterns of moral behaviour
Editor’s note: Does good behavior lead to more good behavior? Or do we try to balance our good and bad deeds? The answer depends on our ethical mindset, according to new research.
Welcome to the Social Age
Editor’s note: We are in a social age, says Julian Stodd, who reflects on his lecture to postgraduate students in Dublin. That said, many organisations fail to realise we are in a social age, he says.