How do you design and facilitate a year-long MOOC?
Editor’s note: In this interview Craig Taylor shares some great insights into designing engaging online learning experiences. The lessons here are relevant to all online learning not just MOOCs.
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Companies Make New Learning Technologies a Top Priority
Editor’s note: If you thought personalising content was a headache only for L&D then you would be wrong. Marketers are struggling too. Maybe worth talking with your marketing team to help each other out?
Power of positive thinking skews mindfulness studies
Editor’s notes: It looks like there is a bias towards reporting more positive research results of studies into mindfulness. Clearly, to understand what mindfulness can do we will need to see the positive and negative results.
Critical Thinking Gives You Better Predictive Power Than Any Expert
Editor’s note: This research shows that the best forecasters are those who use critical thinking skills. So, good data to help develop critical thinking skills in your organisation.
Email Takes Up 28% of Workers’ Time [REPORT]
Editor’s note: This survey is a couple of years old but I can’t imagine much has changed – or has it? If not, a quarter of the day spent managing emails seems like a enormous drain on resources.
How nature is good for our health and happiness
Editor’s note: This big study shows the positive effects being close to nature can have on our health and wellbeing.
Curated Playlists
Editor’s note: Really interesting to see how curation is changing the consumption of music. Consumers are less interested in albums and more interested in curated playlists. Could this be a blueprint for how learners want to consume learning content?
Curation, Copyright and the Law
Editor’s note: This is a practical and pragmatic piece on how to do curation and stay on the right side of copyright law.
A Developmental History of Training in the United States and Europe
Editor’s note: After a shout-out on Twitter for help finding a history of L&D, Owen Ferguson shared this article which is well researched and referenced piece that shows just how long on the job training has existed.
Information Overload or a Search for Meaning?
Editor’s note: This is a long read and very well worth it if you are interested in the history of the concept of information overload and the paradigm shift we need to make to meaning making.
Smile Sheets – Lovable? Or Exponentially Dangerous? Curated #chat2lrn tweets
Here are our tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on happy sheets. [View the story…
Barts Health to perform world’s first live virtual reality operation
Editor’s note: And another example of how virtual reality is being used by hospitals – this time to provide a learning experience as a part of a live operation.
Doctors’ training revolutionised by cardboard, smartphones and Google!
Editor’s note: Thanks to Kate Graham to pointing to this story on how medical staff at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in the UK are using virtual reality to ‘see’ what being a patient is like.
This is a big creativity killer
Editor’s note: Getting territorial about ideas can kill creativity, says this report. The answer is to put as much emphasis on creative feedback and nurturing ideas as the idea itself.