The best LinkedIn groups about elearning
Editor’s note: Some 17 Linkedin groups related to elearning. This is a useful resource if you want to see what groups are out there.
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Advances in artificial intelligence: deep learning
Editor’s note: Article pointing to developments in artificial intelligence and ‘deep learning’.
Online learning strategies of male and female students
Editor’s note: This study attempted to investigate the relationship and differences (if any) of five variables, motivation, self monitoring, internet literacy, internet anxiety and concentration of students when engaging in online studying – studying a language.
Star Trek desks: classrooms for the next generation?
Editor’s note: A three-year project with 400 eight to 10-year olds found that using interactive “smart” desks can have benefits over doing maths on paper, and that pupils are able to improve their fluency and flexibility in maths by working together.
Carl Rogers and informal education
Editor’s note: If you are interested in informal learning and the idea of facilitating learning and the role of the facilitator then you might be interested in the work of Carl Rogers. This article is an overview of his work with a focus on informal learning.
Make your presentations more social
Editor’s note: Mike Collins shares some tips on how he has made his presentations more social and shareable.
Real learning mind map
Editor’s note: Wonderful mind map from Mark Britz showing what ‘real’ learning looks like.
Three critical elements sustain motivation
Editor’s note: And the elements are autonomy, competence and value based on varies research and studies.
Assumed contraints and elephant thinking
Editor’s note: So what holds L&D professionals back from doing new things, showing the way with new tools, techniques and thinking on learning? Does L&D constrain itself? Thought-provoking post from Mike Collins.
‘Two-year itch’ among managers damages workplace productivity, research suggests
Editor’s note: If managers in part hold the key to the development of their teams then they themselves need to be happy and productive in their roles.
Why open social collaboration platforms will disrupt the enterprise market in 2013 and beyond
Editor’s note: 2013 could be the year enterprise collaboration software has ‘its moment in the sun’. But will organisations be ready to implement it effectively?
How you read: 20+ ereader statistics
Editor’s note: Infographic that gets to the heart of how we use ereaders.
Top ed-tech trends of 2012: the business of ed-tech
Editor’s note: A look at how this market is hotting up where the investment is going.
Learning technology helps speed up employees’ time to competency, according to Towards Maturity Benchmark
Learning technology is helping companies reduce the cost of training and speed up the time…
Start-up mylearningworx aims to ‘democratise UK learning’
The creators of mylearningworx are aiming to democratise UK learning by harnessing the power of…