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So how are people really using the iPad?

Jul 22

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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

Tags: apple, early-adopters, footsteps, iPad, ipod, portable-gaming, purchasers-said, research, video

Rather than getting depressed, get going

Jul 19

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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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Tags: business, employee-skills, experience, individual, makers-at-major, realities, requires-strong, research, spring, survey, workplace

The big question: the impact of brain science on e-learning design

Jul 2

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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

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How people really watch television

Jun 24

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In a fascinating Economist article, The Lazy Medium: How people really watch television , we discover once again how rapid changes in technology are only slowly reflected in meaningful changes in behaviour. The following three extracts from the article demonstrate quite clearly how what we thought the impact of technology might be doesn’t necessarily match up to current reality: Myth 1: Viewers disregard the programme schedule But a change in expectations is not quite the same as a change in behaviour.

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How people really watch television

Tags: both-the-father, british, broadcasters, colleen-fahey, family, image, nothing-appeals, often-the-delay, programmes, recorded-on-sky, research, research-at-mtv, time, video

Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies

Jun 18

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CEGOS has just released the results of their 2010 learning and development survey, carried out in March among 2,200 employees from small, medium and large companies in the UK, France, Germany and Spain. The results are interesting, particularly in terms of attitudes to, and usage of learning technologies.

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Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies

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Money’s tight, let’s do some e-learning

Apr 30

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It’s that time of year again.

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Money’s tight, let’s do some e-learning

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Epic evaluation shows the value of preparing students for study

Apr 26

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Brighton-based e-learning developer Epic and the University of Birmingham have used good old Donald Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation to demonstrate the worth of their Skills4uni study skills programme . Skills4uni “gives prospective students an idea of what to expect from their degree programme and university life in general. The course includes tools to help students identify what kind of learner they are, advice on critical and objective thinking, how to make best use of the library and practical tips on taking notes/asking questions in lectures”

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Why mistakes matter

Apr 9

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In Mea Culpa and Rethink on Pre-tests , Clark Quinn makes a confession: Well, it turns out I was wrong.

Tags: every-possible, explore-further, from-the-worst, informational, instructional design, learner, over-the-place, research, rethink-on-pre, simulations, technique, these-questions, understanding, work

D is also for debunking

Apr 6

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Last Monday I issued Post D , where D was the Roman numeral for 500. But D has another significance for me right now, because post ID (that’s 499) acted as a catalyst for a feast of debunking. In post ID, Why Managers Mater , I shared the results of an evaluation study carried out by KnowledgePool, in which 10,000 employees and their managers were asked to assess the degree to which they had been able to apply what they had learned on a course completed three months earlier and the impact this had had on their performance

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Who’s making all this money?

Jan 14

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I may be living too sheltered a life, but I simply can’t fathom out how the estimates of the e-learning market are as big as they are. Let’s take Ambient Insight’s impressively titled The US market for self-paced elearning products and services: 2009-2014 forecast and analysis , issued in October 2009

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Who’s making all this money?

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So how are people really using the iPad?

Rather than getting depressed, get going

The big question: the impact of brain science on e-learning design

How people really watch television

Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies

Epic evaluation shows the value of preparing students for study

Why mistakes matter

D is also for debunking

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