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 - Video This is the year to invest in video learning. Why? Because everyone prefers watching videos to reading, and Internet data seems to bear that out. Some 3.25 billion hours of video are watched every month on YouTube1. So, video is mainstream, and has been
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
Trends for Learning 2018 The Changing Nature of Work and Learning We are in a time of profound change, where everything from business and lifestyle to politics and personal lives is being profoundly affected by the impact of digital disruption and transformation. Although the full scale of this disruption may not yet be felt in
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
Artificial Intelligence (AI) “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to help with that … Yet.” For anyone who has invited Google Home, Amazon Echo, or other intelligent personal assistant devices into your home, the effect can be, well, disarming. Alexa (on Amazon Echo) likes to be addressed by name, while Google Home responds to “OK,
Empathy is a Cybersecurity Necessity Earlier this year Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Alex Stamos, courted controversy when he criticized the cybersecurity industry for a lack of empathy. The security community, he said, must take a more people-centric approach in developing technologies that can be more easily used in a secure manner. This lack of
GDPR – An Opportunity to Rethink Data Security The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most significant overhaul of European Union (EU) data protection legislation in over 20 years. Amongst other things, it is intended to provide better protection to individuals and to give greater certainty to organizations in navigating data protection across
The Impact of the 6 Principles of Influence on Cybersecurity It’s another busy day at the office. You receive an email from your personal bank’s fraud team, alarms bells go off – what do they want? Whatever it is, it’s urgent. The bank has noticed suspicious activity on your account and are requesting that
People are the Easiest Hack; The Pentagon Learns the Hard Way The US military is one of the most cyber-secure organizations on the planet. However, it was not always the formidable digital fortress that it is today. Hard lessons had first to be learned. Back in 2008, a seemingly innocuous USB stick was picked up
