Empathy in the workplace
Editor’s note: This research from the Center for Creative Leadership shows that empathy is positively related to job performance.
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Interface design for learning: an interview with Dorian Peters
Editor’s note: Instructional designer and author Julie Dirksen interviews Dorian Peters, author of Interface Design for Learning: Design Strategies for Learning Experiences, about the importance interface design for learning.
Learning Technologies 2014: conference review
Learning Technologies Conference chairman Donald Taylor opened the conference by telling delegates the industry was…
Nearly 8,000 tweets – analysis and all the tweets from Learning Technologies 2014
Nearly 8,000 tweets described the goings-on at the Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2014. Here…
The Horizon Report 2014 – higher education edition
Editor’s note: Take a look at the technology trends hitting higher education with the annual Horizon Report. They are no different to the ones hitting business. This is a useful look into short, medium and longer-term tech trends.
The costs of working too much
Editor’s note: Great article on long hours in banks and the challenges banks face in trying to get employees to work less.
If you’re not helping people develop, you’re not management material
Editor’s note: This article focuses on the role of the manager in developing people and provides some useful tips on how managers can get the best from their teams.
Workplace performance: Learning is behaviour change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?
Editor’s note: A great article by Charles Jennings on the psychological and emotional factors at play in behaviour change.
A platform-thinking approach to innovation
Editor’s note: A look at how technology – through platforms – is adding a genuinely new approach to innovation.
Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age
Editor’s note: An hour of your time well spent as Erik Brynjolfsson talks through his latest book on how tech is changing our lives.
Video of the week: The key challenges facing heads of L&D in 2014
Training Foundation CEO Nick Mitchell looks at some of the main challenges facing L&D professionals…
The difference between online learning, e-learning and blended learning
Editor’s note: This is why L&D professionals should blog. A great discussion here amongst Clive Shepherd, Nick Shackleton-Jones and others on formal/informal, online and elearning.
Learning and Technologies conference speech digital handout
Editor’s note: This is the digital handout from the Learning Technologies conference session on video. Great tips and resources here.
Three keys to keeping customers engaged
Editor’s note: This short video shows Stanford academic BJ Fogg talking through steps to behaviour change.
Our 9 interviews from Learning Technologies 2014
Here are all nine interviews we carried out at last week’s Learning and Technologies conference.…