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Back in blog seat - it's getting lively out there.

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This is largely due to lots of activity in the day job and a preference for Twitter as a platform for comment and sharing of useful links etc. It's been a while - 6 months in fact - since I last posted on this blog. you can follow me on here).

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Learning - augmented

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I’ve previously posted on how we are beginning to move from training as a separate activity from doing, to a model of primarily supporting practice and performance on the job. Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) I rather snappily called it. One dramatic example of how this is developing is in the nascent area of Augmented Reality.

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Get Real: Mission Critical E-learning

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I wrote it some time back (old world printing deadlines) failing to fully forward plan for some events, like Obama moving from Elect to Active president status last week. Here's an article published in Learning Technologies magazine this week. The bits in.

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Sir Ken in his element

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Here he is essentially promoting his new book The Element which champions the notion that education should first and foremost be about self discovery and self development, actively supporting us as individuals to discover our talents and passionate interests.

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Applied Hope - Reasons to be cheerful in 2009

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But I suspect that we've seen nothing yet as our world economies struggle to transition into an era that can no longer ignore big changes in climate, fossil fuel availability and global populations demanding more active economic involvement.

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Memories Are Made of This

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Effectively, things that happen to us activate networks of neurons in the brain, and when we recall past events at least some of these same. This study picked up by PsyBlog reports on a study that demonstrates how memory works through the reactivation of specific individual neurons in the hippocampus.

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Memory research round up - Cholesterol

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There's definitely a sense of acceleration of activity in this area, which unfortunately also brings with it its own hype and hysterical headlines. Over the past month I've managed to collect an interesting range of research snippets relating to memory and cognition.

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