In an interview with MediaBistro , Seth Godin declares that he has given up on writing books. With 12 in the bag, he no longer thinks that the traditional publishing process is “worth the effort”
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Weighing up the benefits of traditional book publishing
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.
Jun 3
This year I have delivered more face-to-face workshops than I have done since I was a fledgling trainer back in the late 1970s running development programmes for American Express managers.
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Training is hard work
Apr 9
In Mea Culpa and Rethink on Pre-tests , Clark Quinn makes a confession: Well, it turns out I was wrong.
I would have thought Clive Shepherd was a fairly distinctive name. Very few people born in England and its former colonies (Clive James – Australia, Clive Lloyd – West Indies), now all middle-aged because the fashion for the name was short-lived, are unfortunate enough to have been named after Major General Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India (1725-1774). Here he is below: Shepherd is a common enough surname, but even that can be spelt many different ways and usually not in the way you’d normally describe the person who looks after sheep.
I would have thought Clive Shepherd was a fairly distinctive name. Very few people born in England and its former colonies (Clive James – Australia, Clive Lloyd – West Indies), now all middle-aged because the fashion for the name was short-lived, are unfortunate enough to have been named after Major General Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India (1725-1774).
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Why it pays to be the only one with your name
Research led by Dr Helen Hodgetts and Professor Dylan Jones at Cardiff University has shown that pop-ups that appear on your screen to herald the arrival of new emails, tweets, etc.
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More multitasking madness
Research led by Dr Helen Hodgetts and Professor Dylan Jones at Cardiff University has shown that pop-ups that appear on your screen to herald the arrival of new emails, tweets, etc.
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More multitasking madness
Nov 17
Working life provides a great many valuable learning experiences, but it will never provide the diversity of opportunity that an individual can obtain by maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Those who overwork are severely damaging their potential to learn, as John Medina points out in Brain Rules : Exercise boosts brain power (and, unless you’re a professional athlete or a manual worker, chances are your work provides few opportunities for exercise).
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Getting a life
Sep 8
This week’s Economist carried an interesting article about the use of video games at school. The article, Games Lessons , describes how Katie Salen, a games designer and professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, in New York, has taken the initiative in setting up Quest to Learn , “a new, taxpayer-funded school which is about to open its doors to pupils who will never suffer the indignity of snoring through double French but will, rather, spend their entire days playing games.” Not any old games of course, but ’serious games’ which encourage children to explore concepts and issues while engaged in a series of challenges
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Games lessons