Friday Fave: Digital Distraction – too much screen time makes you…

Are you addicted to your smartphone? Can’t resist just a quick look to see if there’s any updates? Then you’re suffering from digital distraction – or maybe not?

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Friday Fave: Science Confirms It – People Are Not Pets

“Training is for dogs and babies”. Something I’ve been saying for decades – in fact, since the last century. This article reveals our traditional reward and motivation systems are fundamentally flawed. An important read for all L&D practitioners, intranet strategists, gamification designers and performance management strategies.

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Friday Fave: When AI misjudgment is not an accident

The issue of bias is widely recognised when discussing artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms. But now we have intentional bias – deliberately using algorithms to create bias.

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Friday Fave: Digital Reality – Real learning in a virtual world

This week’s Friday Fave looks into the digital reality world of learning – augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), 360 video, and immersive technologies.

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Friday Fave: Are digital devices altering our brains?

Time for some myth busting from a reliable source (not #fakenews). The summary at the beginning of this article provides just a glimpse at some of the topics that have been reviewed, in detail: Research shows that by constantly distracting us, the Internet affects cognitive performance but does not radically alter our brains. The findings…

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Event: Digital capability for improved employee performance

Upcoming webinar hosted by Citrix GoTo Training. Date: Tuesday, 9 February, 2016 Time: 1 PM Australian AEDT 3 PM NZ, 10 AM HK, 7:30 AM IND Providing employees with the necessary tools and skills is essential to working in a digital workplace, but how do you determine the  digital capabilities required for employee effectiveness? We will discuss:…

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The future of work and learning

Transforming learning in the digital workplace This week I will be presenting and running a workshop at the LearnTech Asia 2015 conference in Singapore (3-5 November) alongside an impressive line-up of reputable learning professionals such as Laura Overton (Towards Maturity, UK http://towardsmaturity.org/), Charles Jennings (70:20:10, Internet Time Alliance, UK http://internettimealliance.com/), Steve Wheeler (Plymouth Uni, UK), Clark Quinn…

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Vacancy: Postgrad Scholarship on social technology at work

At the Ripple Effect Group, we’re serious about contributing research that extends our practices in social technologies and the future of work.  That’s why we’ve partnered with the University of Sydney Business School to offer a PhD scholarship to work on a joint project in the fields of workplace application of social technologies and the future…

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