Upgrade Your Learning Ability: 3 Tips to Supercharge your Ability to Learn (L2L) Here are three big ideas from educational science to improve your ability to learn. If the bad news is that many people are inefficient learners; the good news is that this ability can be upgraded. Through brain imaging techniques, neuroscience has

Learning Technologies 2019: 3 Key Takeaways Last week at the ExCel, London, the Learning Technologies 2019 conference took place. With more than 8,500 visitors, 150 free L&D seminars, over 200 exhibitors, an exhibition hall packed with the latest learning technologies, innovation and best practice and the industry’s leading L&D conference, it provided a unique and exciting environment

Maximising the potential of the connected workplace for individual and organisational success. In an earlier blog, we examined the emerging phenomenon of the connected workplace, driven by an increased need for teamwork in a time of business transformation and supported by the emergence of increasingly popular digital collaboration tools. Against the backdrop of current and

The Connected Workplace: Ringing the Changes of a New Era in Collaborative Working We can see the impact of digital connectivity all around us, from interpersonal relationships to politics to consumer purchasing patterns. The corporate workplace, however, has been arguably much slower to jump onto the ‘all things social connectivity’ bandwagon. But that is changing

5 Tips for Active Listening Why Listening Is More Courageous than Speaking Talking is easy. Listening – as opposed to simply not talking – is hard. We all know that sometimes it takes courage to speak, but what about the courage it takes to listen? Listening is not about just being quiet, but about

The Road Ahead: Trends 2018 – The Best of the Rest As well as the big trends that we previously reviewed in our series of The Road Ahead: Trends for Learning in 2018, there are, unsurprisingly in this time of rapidly evolving technologies, several other burgeoning trends worth watching. In this article, we review some

The Road Ahead – Trends for Learning in 2018 – Content Content is King? There are those who will argue that content is and always was King: though, depending on your focus, it does seem to have taken a back seat for a while now. Today, ‘content’ wrestles with some of the ‘newer kids on

The Road Ahead – Trends for Learning in 2018 - Personalization It’s a big word and a big topic and it seems to be everywhere. It goes hand in hand with some other topics we’re hearing and seeing lots about, such as UI/UX, the learner journey, data and data analytics, next gen LMSs and Learner

The Road Ahead – Trends for Learning in 2018 - Microlearning Microlearning – those short, bite sized pieces of learning content, focused typically on one discrete topic, delivered at the point of need through a variety of channels to all devices – has been around for some time now. While its stock is still

Microlearning: Six Tips for Best Practice In an age of increasing workplace complexity that leaves little time or headspace for a full-on immersion in a traditionally designed learning program, microlearning can seem like the perfect answer. Microlearning refers to short, focused pieces of learning content, delivered at the point of need. But it’s not