A friend of my wife asked for some recommendations on books about the brain. Here are three.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonas Lehrer is a wonderful romp about how we perceive…
Learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for working smarter.
Dictionaries define learning as acquiring knowledge and skills. But we all know skilled, knowledgeable people who don’t get…
What’s the future of the learning business?
Are content providers going the way of print newspapers?
Are LMS vendors headed down the trail blazed by record stores?
Tony Karrer…
The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009:
Uta and I will be Alaska July 13-22 visiting our son and gawking at wildlife. Fairbanks – Denali – Valdez – Copper Center – Fairbanks. We plan to be off the grid most of the time.
Next month I’ll be conducting several onsite workshops to inject informal/social learning practices into hidebound organizations that are anxious to ramp up to the future. My intent is to challenge…
Yesterday you would have found me on the sunny deck of a beautfiul house in Mill Valley, peering across a valley to the slopes of Mount Tam. The master of the house, a close friend, we go…
Just a holiday thought.
Were Jon Stewart to look at how your organization helps people learn what you are asking them to do, what do you think he would say?
What are you going to…
My new car is one year old! How did that happen? Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’ into the future. Midyear already! How did we get here so quickly? It’s making me dizzy.
I’m going to…
This month’s big question asks, “In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what…
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
-Edgar Degas
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
-W. Edwards…
The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online. It features an article in which Jon Husband and I delve into how to measure the impact of learning in the network…
Informal Learning was the theme of Tony Bingham’s keynote presentation at ASTD’s International Conference and Exhibition in Washington this month.
To my surprise, he brought up a…
In the past three weeks, I have been scanned, patted down, forced to remove my belt and shoes, and asked to wait in line for the privilege, in San Francisco, London, Lisbon, Madrid, and…
