In the present scenario, a wave of new eLearning tools has helped Learning and Development professionals avoid repetitive classroom training. Instead of standing in a conference room full of employees each quarter, trainers can now present the curriculum via online video presentations and interactive eLearning, and check for comprehension with interactive quizzes and games. In this article I will show you 7 areas in which you can use eLearning as a tool to achieve Learning and Development success. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Wearable gadgets used to be reserved for international men of mystery and futuristic starship crews. Thanks to the advancements in modern technology, anyone can get information on the go with smartwatches and smart glasses. In this article, I'll offer insight into how wearable Technology could transform the world of corporate training. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Follow on Twitter as @palumboliuDavid Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University writes "Research by philosophy Professor Michael Friedman reveals how a lesser-known Kantian text serves as an important bridge between Kant's concepts of metaphysics and natural science, as well as between defining periods in Kant's development."German philosopher Immanuel Kant's "Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science" is the subject of Stanford Professor Michael Friedman's newest book. In the 18th century, German philosopher Immanuel Kant penned works that defined the boundaries and frontiers of human reason. Photo: Michael FriedmanThrough a meticulously close reading of Kant's work, Stanford philosopher Michael Friedman's latest research demonstrates that many scholars have previously underplayed or misunderstood the impact of Isaac Newton's scientific writings on the eminent philosopher's thought.Friedman's discoveries explain how Kant's work was, in fact, "profoundly influenced by Newtonian mathematical physics." The study also gives fresh importance to the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), a Kantian text that often takes a back seat to the philosopher's better-known worksIn his latest book, Kant's Construction of Nature, published by Cambridge University Press, Friedman reveals a fuller range of philosophical and scientific implications from Kant's "extremely compressed" text.A scholar of both the philosophy of science and the history of philosophy, Friedman makes an extensive case for the relevance of Kant's deep connection to the natural and exact sciences, especially Newtonian science. "Nowhere in Kant's oeuvre is the link more pivotal," says Friedman, "than in the Foundations."Unlike previous studies of the bridge between the Foundations and Newton, Friedman says his text is structured as "a reading of Kant's text … distinct from both a fully contextualized intellectual history and from a more traditional line-by-line commentary."Friedman argues that "a better understanding of the way in which Kant, in this work, fashioned a fruitful synthesis of Newtonian physics and Leibnizean metaphysics can also further a better understanding of the deep conceptual transformation that began with Kant and concluded with the revolutionary new (Einsteinian) space-time theories."Newton, Friedman asserts, provided "the best example of rational and objective knowledge of the natural world" of Kant's time. In Friedman's view, Kant's writings draw support, if not always obviously, from Newton's theories of gravity, motion, and more.Read more... Additional resources Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural ScienceMichael Friedman's book develops a new and complete reading of this work and reconstructs Kant's main argument clearly and in great detail, explaining its relationship to both Newton's Principia and eighteenth-century scientific thinkers...Source: Stanford University

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    Fascinating data.  WHAT KEEPS WORKERS FROM LEARNING ONLINE? 63% lack of time for self-study 40% can’t find what they need 41% find current online learning not relevant to their need 28% lack of somewhere appropriate to study 26% find learning content uninspiring 25% technology issues such as low bandwidth 22% learning objectives are … Continue reading Benchmarking Online Learning →

Three years ago everyone was talking about Coursera, which had begun partnering with some of the world’s most elite colleges to offer free courses. There was overheated hype, as pundits speculated that it could be a magic bullet to bring down college costs. Wired Campus

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by Dhawal Shah - Tech Crunch Coursera announced in July that they crossed 1 million registrations as China became their second largest market, overtaking India. Most U.S. consumer Internet companies have a hard time breaking into China. Cultural differences and the Internet firewall are a huge barrier to entry. Even tech giants like Google, Facebook and [...]

By Meris Stansbury, eCampus News Two research questions were used to guide the authors during their research: 1) What are the common perceptions among college students about the nature of MOOCs; and 2) How do current college students’ perceptions and attitudes toward MOOCs compare with press discussions on MOOCs? Thematic analysis on the qualitative data (the [...]

by Kaila White, The Republic More than 12,500 people from 163 countries have enrolled in ASU’s first for-credit massive open online course, or MOOC, which launched Thursday. Arizona State University has launched the first class of its Global Freshman Academy, which gives anyone in the world the opportunity to earn freshman-level university credit online without having [...]

Earlier this year, Josh Bersin described what he sees as the importance of the human resources function today in engaging and quantifying employees. He argues that HR should be interested in people management rather than talent management. But what does … The post Moving from a Talent Culture to a People Culture appeared first on Bloomfire.

An important part of training and onboarding for all businesses is providing and communicating practical knowledge to new employees. With much to learn and a limited amount of time, training managers must strategically consider which pieces of information will be … The post How Top Producers Can Provide Valuable Training Content appeared first on Bloomfire.

Photo: Nicole Hemsoth"This week we will be delving into systems and architectures designed for machine learning, but since it’s Monday and there is quite a bit to come, it seemed worthwhile to take a step back and consider how architects and software developers are thinking about the current landscape." according to Nicole Hemsoth, Co-founder and co-editor Nicole Hemsoth brings insight from the world of high performance computing hardware and software as well as data-intensive systems and frameworks.Photo: The PlatformWith everyone from Intel touting the next generation deep learning and machine learning as a partial basis for their Altera buy, to webscale companies like Microsoft, Google, Baidu and others seeking ways to boost machine learning algorithms with hardware, accelerator, and of course, software approaches, the larger conversations tend to get lost in the mix. For instance, what does it mean to optimize for these codes—and what are the system design choices that seem to be the best fits?Photo: Joshua BloomIt may seem a bit odd to take machine learning systems guidance from the point of view of a UC Berkeley professor who specializes in gamma ray bursts and black holes, but when it comes to applied scientific algorithms across massive, shifting datasets, Dr. Joshua Bloom does have a view into the complexity—and the systems required to tackle it. This is true both in terms of understanding the machines required to process cosmological simulations (i.e. large-scale supercomputers) but for Bloom and his group at Berkeley, the equal challenge lies in the tradeoffs of that computation versus the requirements of the models. Sacrificing accuracy for performance, scalability for complexity, memory for model depth—the list goes on. But at the core, Bloom says, is an increased need for machine learning systems and people building them to understand the purpose of optimizations and apply those to both the hardware and software (and by default, the outcomes and implementation)Machine learning systems are alive, he says, both "influencing and responding to their environment. At best, they’re valuable, resilient, functioning systems composed of many imperfect parts with many weak contracts between them, built by fallible individuals with broken communication channels, all of whom are living a resource constrained world that’s constantly changing, with the results being consumed by exacting and capricious individuals." This definition, as he told a group at PyData Seattle, which was hosted by Microsoft, indicates what we already know. This is hard stuff.The difficulty lies in variability—and that variability means that there are never any standard tradeoffs that suit any algorithms, which is especially true since the same models, once applied to different datasets, can change performance-wise dramatically.Read more... Source: The Platform

A different way to present material. It might be fun to do this instead of the usual lecture. Quiz Yourself: How Good Are You at Teaching the Art of Learning? | MindShift | KQED News.

Monitoring who attends class is pointless unless it counts towards students’ grades Dana Ruggiero, Bath Spa University University lecturers rarely get 100% of students turn up to every lecture. Nor do we expect them all to. Those who have got … Continue reading →

An article about how a "gamified" interface to campus life is supposed to help low-income students (can you tell I’m skeptical?). Here’s what they do: Give out points and badges for doing stuff. Reward competing against their fellow students to earn … Continue reading →

APA Says Video Games Make You Violent, but Critics Cry Bias. It’s disappointing, but really not surprising to see the APA come out with a pronouncement like this.   It is pretty clear that the approach was (as it often … Continue reading →

Once I read what the Articulate's challenge #91 was about, I knew it's going to be super fun (hey, what a great chance to know other developers better!). And it took me quite quickly to mock-up the idea how I wanted to show 2 truths and 1 lie about myself: 3 article drafts as newspaper cuttings  pinned to a board   PowerPoint was the primary design tool before I moved to Storyline. Creating board's frame was easy to do with 4 trapezoids filled with an oak texture (board rectangle was filled with

An interactive slider idea popped out of my head and I just had to visualize it. Storyline 2 was an obvious choice in terms of a slider. A starting image was a great free photo via unsplash.com. You can download a set of 45 free stock images of desks, tables and computers from here.    I wanted to show how Articulate's website changed over the years and the wayback machine (internet archive) was a great source for this.  So basically I wanted to take some screenshots and show them changing when

I always appreciate the impact of full-slide size images and short messages - these two combined together are so powerful and grab the attention of the audience.   Challenge 93 (grabbing attention and motivating learners) was a great opportunity to use the approach mentioned above.  If you want your presentation/e-learning course be memorable (especially if your content is numbers heavy) it's good to keep the rule "one message at a time". Avoid cluttered slides, overwhelmed with text or/and

There's a new trend in web design which is video background - it surely makes the site more interesting and engaging. And creating video background interaction was the latest e-learning challenge.   As I didn't have any inital idea, I decided to search through resources for royalty free video with an open mind and see what's going to grab my attention.   When I saw this 10 seconds video my only thought was "..how many days are left until Christmas?" and I continued browsing for another

While working on challenge #92 which was about creating navigation instructions in e-learning courses, I've noticed how much visually I absorb from things around me and implement them into my e-learning examples. Inspiration is everywhere!   I saw this great poster one day and the next week, when the navigation instructions challenge was announced, I knew it's going to be my design inspiration for the challenge.   Have a look at the image below: home button is a small house icon at the top of