Applying behavioural science to the organisation
#behavioural science has been around for a while now but it has really taken off…
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300+ Awesome Free Internet Resources You Should Know
Editor’s note: There are just too many good resources on this list. From business and marketing apps, to picture resources to writing tools – there’ll be something here worth sharing with colleagues.
Time to tackle training tedium
Editor’s note: The CIPD’s chief economist Mark Beaston looks at why training in the UK is so bad despite the fact employees are keen to learn.
Two innovations that have changed learning forever
Editor’s note: Social media and mobile phones have given learners everywhere a capability to discover, create, repurpose, share and amplify content, according to Steve Wheeler.
Living in the age of extremes
Editor’s note: Norman Pickavance asks some big questions of business in this article. In particular, what can UK organisations do to develop long-term, sustainable businesses. He contends that a two-tier workforce is not the way forward.
How data analytics is transforming the hiring process
Editor’s note: This article alludes to some very interesting things such as using data to help hire diverse teams. We know the traditional hiring process based on interviews is laced with biases which sees hiring managers tends towards hiring people like them. Could data help create more diverse teams?
Agility critical to future business success, says CIPD
If organisational #agility is important to business success in today’s world, it is critical to…
3 ingredients of smarter teams
Researchers in the US have identified three factors that make #teams smart. Writing in The…
Design shortcuts for the real world – #chat2lrn curated tweets
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on design shortcuts in learning.…
Internet Psychologists Study How the Web Affects Us (and Make You Click ‘Buy’) | Motherboard
Editor’s note: This article takes a look at internet psychology and the work of psychologists in trying to understand how the web is changing how we operate at a psychological level.
14 Eye-Opening Instagram Statistics
Editor’s note: It’s mobile, it’s visual, it’s huge and it’s engaging. I don’t see much use of it by organisations though. Why is our default away from visual content when visual content is so powerful?
Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram
Editor’s note: It’s interesting to see how the use of MOOC platforms is evolving. Now big companies are working with Coursera to bridge the academic/workplace divide with short courses tackling real world projects.
The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn!
Editor’s note: Now here’s a thing. We probably all think we know how we learn, but do we? This article looks at 10 ways of learning and assesses how effective they are. If evidence challenges some of our legacy thinking on learning then is it time to change what we do?
Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience
Editor’s note: This is an interesting read which shows that neuroscience research suffers from a low number of people taking part in studies. This in turn affects the statistical validity of the research. That’s not to say the research is invalid, it is just worth understanding more about the efficacy of the research, especially as L&D starts to embrace neuroscience with open arms.
Neuroscience research – a lot of learning for learning and development?
In an article for the Guardian, Kate Button, a research psychologist at the University of…