Jul 28
This great little video from SimplyZesty , an agency specialising in Online PR and Social Media based in Dublin, contains some fascinating stats about social media usage in the UK. Check the website out because they have a free e-book too.
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Social media in the UK 2010
The secret of a good debate is to choose a motion controversial enough to attract along a sizeable audience, but with enough subtleties and ambiguities that top quality speakers can explore without resort to dogmatism or play acting. After last year’s clasically contentious “This house believes that the e-learning of today is essential for the important skills of tomorrow” (90 for, 144 against), it was always going to be hard for Epic , the organisers of The E-Learning Debate, to come up with something to grab the imagination as readily, particularly now that several hundred of us have been able to experience the novelty of a debate in the Oxford Union.
A recent posting on Mashable reports some interesting data from Resolve Market Research based on an online survey of potential purchasers and active users of iPads, smart phones, e-readers and portable video game devices in the USA. It provides some insights into the uses early adopters are finding for their iPads and the effect this is having on competitive devices: The iPad was initially positioned as a device for reading, watching videos and web browsing
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So how are people really using the iPad?
Jul 19
Recently I got an email from ‘Sean, a fellow learning theory/tool fiend… I’m also a first year student at Harvard Medical School but I just launched my own tech-heavy learning project on the side
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Excel Everest
In his posting Depressing study of L&D , Donald Clark quotes research by Coleman and Parkes in Spring of this year, which involved interviews with 100 key decision-makers at major UK companies. Apparently this showed that: 70% see inadequate staff skills as a barrier to growth
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Rather than getting depressed, get going
Jul 15
A recent article in The Economist, The evolving blogosphere , clarified for me how blogs have changed over the past five years and where they now sit amongst the panoply of social media applications. Not so long ago it was thought, almost assumed, that everyone would ultimately run their own blog – it was just a question of time before we all found something to say, gathered up the courage and started spouting off our opinions to those two billion or so internet users out there
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What blogging has become
It’s fashionable to sneer at the idea that a particular technology is merely a solution looking desperately for a problem to justify its existence.
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A solution looking for a problem? That’s OK
I finally got round to reading David Wilkins lengthy and emotive post A Defense of the LMS on his Social Enterprise Blog .
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In support of a little moderation
I suspect that many of us find it hard to concentrate when we really need to put in a sustained effort to prepare a report or a presentation, read a document, write a script, create or edit media assets, generate code or assemble an e-learning module – in fact, all the things that e-learning people do most of the time. These tasks require single-minded concentration, sometimes over many hours, even days. How unfortunate, then, that in those times when we are less busy, we choose to install a whole load of apps that focus almost entirely on interrupting us – email, Twitter, Facebook et al.
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Software that protects us from ourselves
The Big Question for July on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is “Does the discussion of ‘how the brain learns’ impact your elearning design?” To emphasise the extent of this discussion, Tony Karrer lists 32 blog postings, including two of mine: Brain rules – where does that leave us? , June 22, 2009 The art of changing the brain , May 13, 2008 The answer in my case is a quite simple ‘yes’. I have gained a great deal of benefit from what I have read on this subject and I have made every effort to integrate this into any design work I have undertaken over the past couple of years.
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The big question: the impact of brain science on e-learning design