Editor’s note: Thanks to Owen Ferguson for sharing these insights into teenage usability from Jakob Nielsen. Cuts through the stereotypes about what teenagers want online, giving a taster of the web skills of future employees.
Editor’s note: The University of Pennsylvania is running a free online course on gamification in a business context. Thanks to @craigtaylor74 for sharing.
Editor’s note: thanks to @tonygurr for sharing this insightful on creating online courses. Lots of links to research and some clear messages around designing courses for learners versus putting trading classroom courses online.
The Learning Technologies 2013 conference and exhibition was the biggest ever, so what does it…
The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development last week shared the first update in its ongoing…
Editor’s note: Ahead of this Thursday’s #chat2lrn Twitter chat on BYOD, the organisers have provided a reading list – whether or not you make the chat, the reading list is worth a look.
Editor’s note: Ahead of last week’s big shows of Learning Technologies and Bett was the second L&D Connect Unconference, which Mike Collins attended and reviews here.
Editor’s note: Hans de Zwart speaks to as many industry luminaries as possible and asks them what they were planning to do in the coming year. Good insights from a range of people including Steve Dineen, Ben Betts and Charles Jennings.
Editor’s note: This article is based on 22 years’ worth work in user experience. Although technology has changed dramatically in that time, the authors say that the core concepts of user-centred design have remained the same.
Editor’s note: Global Ethnographic is a free to access online magazine-journal designed to popularise and disseminate anthropological perspectives. It’s first issue is out now – this should be a useful resource to keep an eye on.
In his talk at the Learning Technologies Conference 2013, former chief learning officer at Reuters…
Managing information overload is not the issue for L&D professionals, but fixing the filtering tools…
The creator of Mind Maps Tony Buzan ran a session on creativity at Learning Technologies…
Editor’s note: An overview of gamification in the workplace plus a look at three companies that actually do it.
Editor’s note: One of our Curation Camp speakers Tim Drewitt is curating a page on the Tin Can API, which was a hot topic at Learning Technologies 2013.