What’s informing your thinking: Nigel Paine
Nigel Paine, former chief learning officer at the BBC and L&D thought-leader, shares what’s informing…
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Adobe unveils Edge tools and services for creating beautiful web experiences
Editor’s note: Press release from yesterday’s Adobe product announcements, including Adobe Edge Animate 1.0, Adobe Edge Inspect 1.0 (formerly codenamed “Shadow”), Adobe PhoneGap Build 1.0, Adobe Edge Web Fonts and a preview of Adobe Edge Code and Adobe Edge Reflow.
Pathbrite and digital portfolios
Editor’s note: How will we collect and share our portfolio of skills, achievements and work in the future. Start-up Pathbrite thinks it has the answer.
How games are being used for learning
Editor’s note: This 10-minute video looks at how games are being used in learning. The focus is on schools and how students interact with a range of different types of games.
5 tools that deliver smarter productivity and collaboration
Editor’s note: A useful list that includes: Loosecubes, Treehouse, Trello, Lift.do and Fonolo.
Left brain right brain illustration
Editor’s note: A bit of graphic fun for a Tuesday morning with this cartoon of what the left and right side of our brain provide us with.
World of Learning – tagcloud conference preview
I thought a tag cloud of the conference agenda at World of Learning 2012 would…
Three questions to Dr Jane Bozarth
Following her session on social media for trainers at the 2012 Learning Live conference, LearnPatch…
From training to performance to social
Editor’s note: Slide deck from Harold Jarche that takes the journey from training to social learning. Packed with useful slides.
#learninglive notes – business value of a high-impact learning culture
Editor’s note: Review of David Mallon’s session at Learning Live in which he talked through Bersin & Associate’s research into what makes a high-impact learning culture.
Ready to learn? Brain scans can tell you
Editor’s note: Researchers have shown that activity in the brain’s parahippocampal cortex predicts how well people will remember a visual scene.
The workplace of 2025 will be wherever you want it
Editors note: ‘Because of greater connectivity and hugely dispersed workforces, we’ll mimic the organised chaos of a bee or ant colony.’ Interesting research to keep you awake at night – what’s the impact for L&D?
Paul Harris on how children learn from others
Editor’s note: A short article introducing Paul Harris’s book Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others. ‘Children recognize early on that other people are an excellent source of information. And so they ask questions. But youngsters are also remarkably discriminating as they weigh the responses they elicit,’ says Harris.
Relationship-centred learning: an interview with Brandon Hall’s Stacey Harris
Learning is changing rapidly and is being driven by consumers, technology and socio-economic shifts, according…
Can ethnography save enterprise social networking?
Editor’s note: An in-depth look at why designing enterprise social software for humans and human interaction is key to getting colleagues to start using such tools. As the author says, ‘we need to do a much better job at understanding the cultural context in which people work and how “work” fits into a broader social context’.