Towards Maturity launches 2013 Benchmark Study
Learning and development research company Towards Maturity has launched its 2013 Benchmark Study, Europe’s largest…
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Are you creating engaged or entitled employees?
Editor’s note: Empowered workers whose activities are aligned with the business will also be your most engaged employees . . .
Seeing our errors keeps us on our toes
Editor’s note: The human brain does not passively forget our good techniques, but chooses to put aside what it has learned.
Obama’s ‘Ethnography Project’ Key to His 2012 Victory
Editor’s note: Ken Walsh writes about his new book that looks at how deep ethnographic research of voters helped Obama to a second term of president of the US.
Designing for real world mobile use
Editor’s note: In a study looking at over a thousand people using mobile devices in the street, Steven Hoober found that about 75% of people’s interactions with a smartphone were managed with a single thumb. Do you design for that kind of interaction?
What happened to the internet productivity miracle?
Editor’s note: Analysis of the impact of technology on productivity. This quote sums up the piece: ‘At a time when digital technology has been exalted to a position of almost religious authority, productivity growth has fallen—not just in the United States but in other advanced nations, too.’
Slidedeck of the week: KPCB Internet Trends 2013
The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report compiled by Mary Meeker and Liang…
McKinsey Disruptive Dozen Technologies
Editor’s note: A look at McKinsey’s “Disruptive Dozen” technologies. Note the impact of automating knowledge work.
Explosive growth in the corporate training market
Editor’s note: Analyst Josh Bersin looks at the growing corporate training market and where the investment is training is being spent.
OECD educationtoday: What makes a NEET?
Editor’s note: This OECD blog post defines NEETs and provides some links to related research and resources.
Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?
Editor’s note: Research paper on practice and expertise. Slays some myths (10,000 hours, for example) and looks at why scientists need to work together to have a better understanding of how we become expert at something.
How HR can take on a bigger role in driving growth
Editor’s note: Economist Insight research into how HR directors can position themselves to take a more strategic role in the organisation.
Emotional response to climate change influences whether we seek or avoid further information
Editor’s note: A look at how we make sense of risk and in particular our responses to media content. How much do biases inform our response to what we read, hear and watch?
An occasional paper on digital media and learning Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
Editor’s note: In-depth report in online participation by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Exploring curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
Editor’s note: Paper on curation as a digital literacy and a framework for how curation could work in education. Interesting points plus a look at Storify as a curation tool.