by Todd Tauber, Chief Learning Officer Everyone knows most learning happens beyond the classroom walls and outside learning management systems. But new research shows just how much — and the data are startling. In the past year, learning technology company Degreed conducted two separate surveys that show workers spend four to five times more time on [...]

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has recently ruled that the sacking of a team leader by the Leighton Boral Amey Joint Venture (LBAJV) was unfair, despite the fact that he engaged in several acts of misconduct and sexual harassment at a work party. The case raises vital questions for employers about ‘out-of-hours’ conduct and the […] The post Fair procedure, relevant policies and consistency of treatment among lessons for employers in unfair dismissal case appeared first on Learning Seat.

This post is inspired by the #ihrchat on Twitter hosted by Dr. Tanvi Gautam and supported by Team #ihrchat. The chat was full of insights and learning, as always. Flood of tweets poured in with inputs and suggestions on this thought-provoking topic - Reinventing HR for a Purpose Driven Workplace (PDW). And the trigger for […]The post L&D’s Role In A Purpose Driven Workplace appeared first on Learnnovators.

Now that Microsoft’s quit providing free clip art and free stock images many of you are scrambling to get hold of free resources to use for your elearning and training development. Download Free Stock Images In a previous post I shared 45 free stock images via the Unsplash site. In today’s post I’m going to […]

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy. Every organisation has a hierarchical system, with different levels that perform different job functions. The top level typically consists of two groups - the leaders in the making and the leaders/the leadership team. The existing training programs promote the grooming of new (would-be) […]

We are arriving at a break-point with the existing economy, one dominated by markets, as we enter the network era. A creative economy is emerging and our existing institutions and markets cannot deal with it. Tim O’Reilly calls this The WTF Economy, and is bringing people together to understand and deal with it. What is... Read more »

We believe technology is changing culture everywhere in the world, leading to the emergence of a new model of leadership. Employees are now more confident, more mobile, more demanding, more idealistic in some cases, and less willing to be company people. Employees, more than ever, are individualists. Leaders, in response, are learning to be less... Read more »

Augmented Reality Chemistry Experiments with Elements 4D — from whiteboardblog.co.uk Excerpt: Elements 4D is a neat Augmented Reality chemistry app for iOS and Android devices which provides a fun way to look at various different chemical reactions. The app uses blocks that are inscribed with the symbols of 36 elements from the periodic table. The […]

"Learning mathematics can be a problem for many students, especially when it comes to understanding concepts and visualising solutions. Increasingly, more schools are looking at free software resources such as GeoGebra to help their students understand the subject better." continues The Hindu.A.N. Radhakrishnan (second from right), Correspondent, P.S. Senior Secondary School, greets Rajeeva Karandaka, Director, Chennai Mathematical Institute at a workshop on ‘Chennai Geogebra’ on Monday. Zekeriya Karadag, Bayburt University, Turkey, and Mikko Rahikka (right), Finnish Geogebra Institute. Photo: The HinduGeoGebra brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphs, statistics and calculus to help teachers and students of all levels."Whenever I have a problem with a concept, I try it out on GeoGebra — for example, some curves can be tough to visualise, so I enter the values on the software, which helps be understand the solution," Harivallabha, a Class XII student at the P.S. Senior Secondary School explained.The school has been using the software on smart boards for the past one year.Many students face difficulty relating geometry and algebra and free software solutions could be the key to helping them, Mikko Rahikka from Finland, a resource person for GeoGebra, said."The traditional method of teachers drawing a graph on the board has a number of limitations, which can be overcome by using apps like this," he said.Since it is free, students and teachers can download GeoGebra in their schools or home.Read more... Source: The Hindu

By Nicole Mellas, Instructional Writer/Designer A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of conducting a 30-minute webinar exploring how to get more out of Subject Matter Expert (SME) Interviews. For an overview on the topic, you might want to start by reading my original blogpost. Of course, in a mere thirty minutes it’s almost impossible to cover everything you want to cover and still have time for all of the great questions that are sure to follow. So, I’d like to take some time now to answer a few of the questions prompted by the webinar.  

"Big Data not just the volume of data that has gone up but also the variety, like video, sounds and so on, says Ramayya Krishnan" reports Varuni Khosla, ET Bureau. Big data scientists are in great demand. To get business value from big data, companies are looking for multi-skilled experts who understand programming, large-scale mathematics, statistics and business, and universities are introducing specialised programmes to meet this demand. Big data not just the volume of data that has gone up but also the variety, like video, sounds and so on. Something as simple as using maps on phones generates a stream of data. Photo: Dean Ramayya Krishnan, Economic Times Dean Ramayya Krishnan of Carnegie Mellon University, is the professor of Management Science and Information System. He spoke to Varuni Khosla on the new role of data scientists in both public and private secttors to understand policy, information sciences, and how the two intersect in order to create-forward thinking organisations. Edited excerpts: Read more...Source: Economic Times 

Businesses value employees who are able to independently learn, make decisions, and perform their jobs effectively. In the past, traditional learning methods such as instructor-led training might have been satisfactory for setting up employees for success. This is no longer … The post Are you meeting all five moments of learning need? appeared first on Bloomfire.

Larry Ferlazzo: All My "Best" Lists On Teaching & Learning How To Write - In One Place! Excerpts: The Best Posts On Writing Instruction The Best Online Tools That Can Help Students Write An Essay The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement The Best Sites For ELL’s To Learn About Punctuation The Best Resources To […]

Photo: Dr. Tik Chi Yuen, B.B.S., J.P. Tik Chi Yuen, chief executive of the Hong Kong Institute of Family Education applauds the proposal to cut study time for Hong Kong's senior secondary students, but says more could be done to support those who are not academically inclined. Students siting for the Diploma of Secondary Education exam. Photo: South China Morning Post The latest official review of Hong Kong's academic structure, which recommended cutting total study time by at least 100 hours for senior secondary students, brought good news to both students and their heavily burdened teachers. The cut should ease some of their workload. Yet, the review leaves some obvious questions. For those who have only a slim chance of getting into university and prefer a vocational education, is there a third way for them? A friend's daughter, JJ, who will enter Form Six this September, is being armed to tackle the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exam next year. For this, she attends supplementary lessons at school on each weekday, and half a day on Saturdays, during the summer holidays. This "suffering", as she describes it, leads her to welcome the proposal to cut total lesson time for the three years of senior secondary education, from 2,700 hours to between 2,400 and 2,600 hours. Lesson time for "other learning experiences" will also be cut, from 15-35 per cent of total study time to 10-15 per cent. However, the review does little to help vocation-oriented students. JJ, who wants to work as a film producer after graduation, is keen to learn by doing - say, by joining the production team for campus television. Unfortunately, the current structure cannot provide her with an internship in a professional field. DSE graduates, in the face of fierce competition from university graduates, do not have plenty of career choices. According to the Census and Statistics Department, youth unemployment for the first quarter of this year for those aged 15-19 is 13.9 per cent, dominating the ratios for all age groups. As part of the review, the Education Bureau should add more vocational courses or part-time enrolment at vocational training schools, which in turn could line up more commercial and industrial partners to boost internships and career opportunities. Such enrolment in vocational courses and internships should become part of students' official record, empowering them with dual academic and vocational credentials for a promising future.Read more... Source: South China Morning Post

What Learners Really Want — from clomedia.com by Todd Tauber Listen to your learners: They want speed, diversity and adaptability in internal development programs. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Everyone knows most learning happens beyond the classroom walls and outside learning management systems. But new research shows just how much — and the data are startling. In […]

Follow on Twitter as @dcwriter360Jamaal Abdul-Alim summarizes, "In order to achieve better math outcomes in adult education, the field must abandon a series of "false hopes" that essentially have set the system up for failure." Photo: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education That was the argument that Steve Hinds, director of the Chicago-based Active Learning in Adult Numeracy, made during a plenary session of the 22nd International Conference of Adults Learning Math, or ALM. One in five students in the United States leaves high school without a diploma. Those who return to school later to earn their high school equivalency degrees will continue to stumble because their math teachers are often underpaid, rely on rote teaching and have little time to deliver content, Hinds said during a keynote speech titled "Improving What We Do for Struggling Adult Numeracy Students." He complained that adult education is beset with math curriculums that resemble the flawed curriculums that students endured before they left school. "We hope the pedagogy that didn’t work for students when they were in middle school and high school will work better for them when they are older," Hinds said in listing one of five false hopes that he believes plague the field. "It’s very rote," Hinds said of the predominant mode of math teaching. "When you ask students later what is math, they say it means remembering the steps." But this approach fails to help students understand the underlying concepts behind the steps, Hinds said. "Guess what we do? We remind them of the procedures once again," Hinds said. "We’re pretending that students knew this math before, it’s just been a while, they need to see it again, it will all come back." Hinds lamented how many adult education programs provide meager amounts of time for students to master math concepts they failed to learn in middle or high school. "We hope that a large amount of math content can be learned over a very small number of class hours," Hinds said, listing another false hope. He said popular models where students are tested after eight, 10 or 12 weeks make little sense because they involve about 30 hours of instruction to cover the equivalent of two years of math.Read more... Source: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This past week, I took off a few days to get into the wilderness with some colleagues.  Five of us got dirty, smelly, and sweaty while hiking in the backcountry.  These are smart, successful, interesting, and funny folks, so the conversation was not PC™, but wise and witty.  And, of course, we got to places […]

David Lopes Pegna, leading the data science team at Vectra Networks writes, "The key-aspects of building successful cybersecurity machine-learning models."Photo: FreeDigitalPhotos.netBig data is around us. However, it is common to hear from a lot of data scientists and researchers doing analytics that they need more data. How is that possible, and where does this eagerness to get more data come from?Very often, data scientists need lots of data to train sophisticated machine-learning models. The same applies when using machine-learning algorithms for cybersecurity. Lots of data is needed in order to build classifiers that identify, among many different targets, malicious behavior and malware infections. In this context, the eagerness to get vast amounts of data comes from the need to have enough positive samples — such as data from real threats and malware infections — that can be used to train machine-learning classifiers. Is the need for large amounts of data really justified? It depends on the problem that machine learning is trying to solve. But exactly how much data is needed to train a machine-learning model should always be associated with the choice of features that are used.Features are the set of information that’s provided to characterize a given data sample. Sometimes the number of features available is not directly under control because it comes from sophisticated data pipelines that can’t be easily modified. In other cases, it’s relatively easy to access new features from existing data samples, or properly pre-process data to build new and more interesting features. This process is sometimes known as "feature engineering."Features are the set of information that’s provided to characterize a given data sample. Sometimes the number of features available is not directly under control because it comes from sophisticated data pipelines that can’t be easily modified. In other cases, it’s relatively easy to access new features from existing data samples, or properly pre-process data to build new and more interesting features. This process is sometimes known as "feature engineering."Machine-learning books will emphasize the importance of accurately choosing the right features to train a machine-learning algorithm. This is an important consideration, because an endless amount of training data, if paired to the wrong set of features, will not produce a reliable model.Read more... Source: Computerworld

Why do people think you can’t teach CREATIVITY? — from thoughts.siliconguild.com by Tina Seelig Excerpts: Why do people think that you can’t teach creativity and entrepreneurship? It stems from the lack of a clear vocabulary and a process for moving from inspiration to execution. … To begin, there is a hierarchy of skills, starting with […]

"The proportion of female researchers and students might be increasing in Europe, yet they remain underrepresented in scientific careers and disciplines." according to European Parliament, News. A report adopted by the women's rights committee on 14 July sets out how women could be helped to overcome the barriers preventing them from progressing in science, research and the technology sector. Check out our infographic to find out how many men and women graduated in science over the past decade.Number of science and technology graduates per 1,000 habitants aged 20-29 in the EU. F stands for female graduates, M for male graduates. View on webNeed for actionWomen might make up half the population, but they represent only 33% of European researchers, 20% of university professors and 15.5 % of heads of institutions in the higher education sector. Greek EPP membe rElissavet Vozemberg has come up with several ideas to improve the situation in the report that was adopted in committee this week:  "My report focused on further positive actions in order to challenge the glass ceiling barrier, highlighting the importance of ensuring absolute fairness in the hiring process, eliminating stereotypes or prejudices concerning the female gender and tackling women being underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math careers."What's in the reportThe report calls for improving network opportunities for female scientists at the regional, national and European level as well as for campaigns to encourage women to pursue scientific careers, especially in engineering and the technology sector. It also says the creation of gender equality plans should be considered as a precondition for access to public funding in research, science and academia and also asks for programmes to actively encourage women to continue their careers after maternity leave.Click here for more news from the European Parliament.Source: EU News

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Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it. Inside Higher Ed

It’s difficult to keep students engaged — and awake — when assigning them readings from long and often dull textbooks. Two researchers wanted to change that. Wired Campus