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Learning Styles, ha, ha, ha, ha

Jay Cross

imaginative versus analytic learners. lefts/analytics/inductives/successive processors. imaginative versus analytic learners. lefts/analytics/inductives/successive processors. We have, in this review, for instance, referred to: convergers versus divergers. verbalisers versus imagers. holists versus serialists.

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Big Data at Google

Jay Cross

Measurements and analytics rule at Google. All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team. To see Big Data at work, look to Google, where number-crunching on a massive scale has changed hiring and management practices.

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Online Educa Berlin

Jay Cross

Big data and analytics top this year’s agenda. This will be my tenth or eleventh year attending OEB. Joining colleagues from over a hundred countries and hanging out at Christmas markets has become a habit. I can hardly wait for the discussions of the ethics of the NSA and invasions of privacy.

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Disruptive Educational Research Conference in India

Jay Cross

Learning Analytics, Ubiquitous learning. Influenced in large part due to the efforts of the speakers on this theme, the conversations around alternate ways of conceiving learning and the learning experience have centred around the following key aspects: Informal Learning, Communities of Practice, Connectivism. New forms of assessments.

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Gird for complexity

Jay Cross

In the future, the descendants of IBM’s Watson and analytics will do the complicated jobs. The clockwork jobs have been outsourced to low cost providers. Robots do the simple jobs. Routine work is disappearing. Will complex work become the norm by 2020?

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Reading and writing on the iPad

Jay Cross

Book reading strengthened our analytical skills, encouraging us to pursue an observation all the way down to the footnote. Screen reading encourages rapid pattern-making, associating this idea with another, equipping us to deal with the thousands of new thoughts expressed every day.

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Social maps

Jay Cross

Their social maps are the most useful analytic tool in the bunch because they map relationships among your contacts. People have to list location on LinkedIn but many probably don’t bother identifying their industry. It’s a pity I rarely use LinkedIn. Create your own LinkedIn social graph here.). Click for larger version].