Here you’ll find stories and audio reviews (see below) on Learning Design in practice for everybody. It should be seen as the fifth part of the book with the same title.
Episode 1: The impact of emotions
“Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.” Peter Drucker To find these opportunities is crucial for the development of businesses. This requires business intelligence, knowledge creation, operational excellence and talent management. However, the organisation’s quest for excellence concerns not only new opportunities …
Artificial intelligence could be a bridge. The connector to improve human interaction and adapting education in accordance with individual preferences and skills. And at the same time, automating administrative tasks in the educational process to make more room for learning and teaching. Data is here the AI language to make …
Can VR help to improve social work? Professor Nicholas Lanzieri at New York University has created a VR-simulation. That takes the student as a social worker through New York City’s Lower East Side. Here the student will enter a virtual reality training environment and explore possible challenges for clients. Professor …
Research on learning motivation until now has been rather general, according to Dr Julia Dietrich of Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (FSU). In a research project in collaboration with Jaana Viljaranta (University of Eastern Finland), Julia Moeller (Yale University) and Bärbel Kracke (FSU) the team is bringing the first building …
Catherine Solazzo, vice president of developer engagement for IBM Digital Business Group, points out two areas where AI will develop higher education: “To impart learners with skills that will help them succeed in the new world of AI; and for use by administrators to leverage that technology and understand how …
Skills development and learning design adapted for the digital society are to a large extent different from the 20th Century classroom and textbooks environment. Two reports from OECD and Nielsen Norman Group forms in this spirit solid stepping stones for the learning designer of the 21st Century. In the OECD …
Describing the research of creativity is like the fable of the blind men trying to describe an elephant by touching different parts of its body. One of them touches the tail and says that it is like a snake, another touches the body and says that it is like a …
Stress is the brain’s greatest enemy. It is an obstacle to creativity, performance in general including all vital functions that leads forward. So how can we avoid this obstacle in an increasingly complex working life that continually taking up speed? Is it possible to improve performance and well-being at the …
A traditional meeting room is really an obstacle. Since it is designed as a replica of the old industrial society’s assembly lines and labour division. Where creativity at best is the same as that some can manage to think out of the box. But why have a meeting in a …
In a report from 2015 by The Foundation for Young Australians that used data from 4.2 million online job postings in the period 2013-2015 it is shown that the demand for critical thinking skills had risen with 158% during the period. While the demand for digital literacy had increased by …
