Editor’s note: This quote sums up the piece: ‘Access to facts and “lower-level” knowledge provides a more fertile ground for higher-level learning. And just because the process of finding such knowledge is simpler doesn’t neuter or de-authenticate the learning; rather it frees up the learner for more important thinking that a computer can’t duplicate.’
Editor’s note: Jonathan Vernon ponders technology that is helping severely injured patients reconnect with the world.
Editor’s note: Last in a great series of seven tech trends in education for 2012. This one looks at analytics.
Editor’s note: Cerego sounds like a course builder platform but also claims to be a ‘memory management service’. It has been very successful in helping students in Japan learn English as a foreign language.
Editor’s note: Research looks at how mobile devices are used with TV and how the new multi-screen living room will actually function.
Editor’s note? The internet of what? We are all data points and the data we produce will affect how things work. This is a useful article on the Internet of things, which was subject of debate at the recent LeWeb conference in Paris.
Editor’s note: More than ever, entrepreneurial-minded people (and the ideas they generate) are extremely valuable to an organisation. So what are the skills needed to be an entrepreneurial thinker?
Editor’s notes: Useful infographic with data to back up the points, or rather to disprove the myths.
Editor’s note: Niall Gavin curate’s tweets from the annual Learning and Performance Institute Fellows Symposium.
Professor of new media environments at Bournemouth University, Stephen Heppell, told Elearning Network members that…
Editor’s note: Craig taylor reviews day two of the Virtual learning Show, providing some great takeaways for anyone delivering virtual learning. make sure you read the comments too.
Editor’s notes: By adding more cities to filter by, Twitter is providing more – if rudimentary – ways of curating the web.
Editor’s note: From KMWorld 2012, Dr Jay Liebowitz’s top 10 keys to knowledge management success.
Editor’s note: Researchers have shown that words subtly and selectively induce motor activity. This motor response to words depends on context, however, which they say is a testament to our brain’s flexibility when processing words.
Editor’s note: With the rise and rise of performance systems and the data they generate, are organisations any closer to using this information effectively? Here are seven myths that surround performance management systems and their data.