We’ve all spent too many hours hunched over a computer working on a pressing deadline or just getting absorbed in a creative project—with the resulting cricked necks and back pain. Here’s David Zhang describing the correct ergonomic set up in…
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Find your ikigai
Writer Thomas Oppong has done a great job summarizing the Japanese concept of ikigai—your purpose or reason for being. Ikigai is thought to contribute to longer lives and happiness. Read the article and find out more, including how ikigai is at…
Don’t try to smooth over discrimination
We just recorded one of our best received webinars with diversity and inclusion expert, Maureen Brown. While she covered a variety of items, one of the most counter-intuitive ideas she talked about was how taking a smooth it over approach to…
Micro-learning: not just about video
Micro-learning is short, focused training that should take the learner no more than 2 to 5 minutes to review. And it’s not just about video. Here’s eLearning Industry’s round-up of 15 types of micro-learning divided into three themes: read, view,…
Jane Bozarth on career development for L&D
I just posted about Jane Bozarth’s wonderful Nuts and Bolt blog. Here’s a vimeo gem from seven years ago where Jane provides insights around career development for learning and development practitioners. A good quote from the video: “I think that folks in…
Jane Bozarth is awesome!
We love author, eLearning guru, and director of research for The eLearning Guild, Jane Bozarth. It’s hard to choose just one item from her Nuts and Bolts blog, so we’re linking you to all of them and letting you decide. You…
Cognitive bias and faulty judgement
Wikipedia defines cognitive bias as “a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own ‘subjective social reality’ from their perception of the input.” Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins writes about cognitive bias and how an…
Ideas that change the world
Every so often someone impresses you with their ability to think outside the box and come up with an innovation that changes the world in some way. Stanford bioengineer, Manu Prakash did just that. He created a paper-based centrifuge that…
The age of immersive learning
We’re all being pulled in a multiplicity of directions with endless social media updates, email notifications, web pop-ups and advertisements. A constant stream of information means that learning needs to be able to capture our attention, and keep it. We’re…
eLearning trends of 2018–VIDEO
I just posted about eLearningArt’s 11 trends for 2018. They also did a video summarizing those trends. You’re welcome!