Editor’s note: Nick Shackleton-Jones explores anxiety in learning and how and why it has become a part of schooling. He then looks at the role of affective context and how this can be used to flip the experience. Interesting look at how we learn and how we can improve the learning interventions we provide.
Editor’s note: A comprehensive slide deck with 147 slides providing context (ie where we have come from) and where interactive design is headed.
Editor’s note: Some useful tips here. This line sums up the article: ‘It’s time to face up to the new reality: by potentially exposing any dismissal to public scrutiny, social media makes your customers and the public into de facto stakeholders in your internal HR policies and processes.’
Editor’s note: The people behind content curation tool Spundge are pulling together useful reads on curation and it is turning into a useful resource.
Editor’s note: A review of the International Digital Curation Conference, held in Amsterdam. Includes links to resources from the event.
These are curated tweets from the the chat2lrn Twitter chat on bring your own device…
Editor’s note: In the first two terms of implementing an iPad programme, Longfield Academy in Kent have noticed a great impact on teaching and learning – read more of the findings from the programme.
Editor’s note: Older people tend to dislike e-readers, but expend less cognitive effort using them than when reading real books. This research looks into how we perform as readers across different devices.
Editor’s note: Slidedeck from Karl Kapp on immersive learning through games, gamification and virtual worlds.
Editor’s note: Reflective piece by Clive Shepherd on synchronicity in learning – can we make more of being together, learning together? Shepherd thinks so.
Editor’s note: Author Euan Semple looks at mobile communication and why companies need to pay attention – and adapt – to this ever-growing phenomenon.
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Following his presentation at Learning Technologies 2013, head of community development at DPG Mike Collins…
Winners of the 2013 The Learning Awards were announced last night at a gala event…
Editor’s note: Ahead of their design jam, the Big Idea, weelearning have written an introduction to the concept of design thinking. Great introduction and primer on the main concepts.