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This is why AR will take your learning to another dimension
Now that the final version of iOS 11 is available to download complete with ARKit capabilities, the app store is overflowing with AR apps to explore. Apps such as Ikea Place have been spearheading the flood of AR puzzles, games and tools making their way onto consumer phones across the globe in the last few […]
How to enable an agile approach in your organisation
Agile, adj. – able to move quickly and easily. Is that how you would describe a standard approach to project management? Probably not. However, the agile method is an increasingly popular mode of project management and software development that tears up the process rulebook. It represents a method that’s more suited to the fast pace […]
Why you need to know the science behind accessible colour design
Whether designing websites or learning experiences, one of the issues a developer needs to consider is accessibility. This means being able to design content that can be consumed by as large a target audience as possible, including those with any form of sensory impairment. A key feature that is often overlooked when striving for accessible […]
“You don’t have to be an Ad to work here, but it helps” — how Strategic HR will be the new Don Drapers
As HR moves from the operational to the strategic there are going to be changes. HR is now responsible not only for the operational needs of payroll, reward and recruitment, but also for growing the greater brand culture. Culture is of course all-important from a compliance perspective. From Travis Kalanick at Uber to Trafigura dumping […]
These applications of AI in learning will transform the future of performance and development
Things move fast in the artificial intelligence sphere. With Elon Musk and other AI influencers calling for a ban on automated deathbots, and an AI bot created by his own start-up, OpenAI, now able to beat humans at complex games, a distant future of sentient robots doesn’t actually seem that distant at all. But how […]
freeLearning — how learning can bring the fight to modern slavery
Modern slavery is still a huge ongoing global issue, with 20 to 30 million people still estimated to be enslaved in 161 countries worldwide, and 20 new suspected victims found in the UK just this morning. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires all businesses with a turnover of over £36 million to publish a statement setting out […]
Why you can’t afford to ignore performance support tools in learning
The expectation amongst modern employees is that work equals learning. Indeed, learning and development opportunities now rank more highly in graduate employment priorities than salary, according to EY. EY’s head of student recruitment, Julie Stanbridge, stated “we are seeing moves away from structured classroom-based seminars and Powerpoint slides to on-the-job learning in dynamic teams, and […]
These four healthy learning habits will revitalise your strategy
Who hasn’t come across a list of healthy habits, especially when the summer holidays get closer? It’s also a good time to get your mind in shape for when they’re over, so here are some healthy learning habits to implement in your learning strategy!
Let’s get physical — how user experiences from the real world will make your learning better
We’ve talked a lot recently about the understated importance of user experience (UX) in learning, and how to improve it. But it’s not just learning or web design UX that are important to our everyday lives. In fact, the user experiences that have the biggest effect on us are physical user experiences. What do I […]
5 learning insights from social media that will make your elearning unmissable
There are 2.5 billion people using social media in 2017. By 2020, that number is set to rise to almost 3 billion. Despite the towering size of these figures, they won’t shock anyone. There’s no argument, social media has become an integral part of people’s everyday life, with the average time spent on it hitting […]
7 magnificent web and app UI and UX design tools
Our last blog discussed how to take your learning UX and UI to the next level. This week, we’re going to take a slight diversion from the learning sphere to an area that we all experience as a user at some point or another – the web. Increasingly, though, we’re becoming not just web content […]
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