In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning. eLearning Coach: You were an early adopter of using social technologies for learning purposes. Jane: Using social technologies has just been an evolution of my experience and interest in learning technologies for a long time now.  RECENT ARTICLES eLearning 2.0 MORE >>

Social Media. Social media technologies are exploding, providing an array of offerings for learning online. The prevalence of social networking, real-time search and discussion, and collaborative technologies increase the opportunities for informal and unstructured learning and can enhance structured learning strategies as well. Although organizations have been slow to adopt and promote social media technologies for learning , interest in these approaches is increasing. Related Articles: 10 Social Media Tools For Learning. Share this on del.icio.us. MORE >>

Share this on del.icio.us. Tags: DESIGN RECENT ARTICLES USER INTERFACE Did you ever spend an hour writing a four or five word phrase or short instruction? During that time, you probably felt like an obsessive perfectionist—hunched over the computer trying to get it just right. Now that there’s a term for this type of writing and recognition of how important it is, we can all feel a little more normal. I’m talking about microcopy , and it refers to the little instructions and phrases that we use in eLearning and web page interfaces to guide and assure users. Seriously. MORE >>

As social media technologies for learning become increasingly important to organizations and to individuals, instructional designers will need to focus on broad learning events and strategies that incorporate many approaches rather than on individual courses. Related Articles: 35 More Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer. Share this on del.icio.us. Tags: DESIGN ISD RECENT ARTICLES instructional design A reader named Michaela recently emailed to ask what an instructional designer does. My real-world experience points to this as a great and growing field. MORE >>

With this in mind, here are a few sites that feature cognitive psychology podcasts, research, articles and news. Although the Cognitive Daily stopped publishing new articles in January 2010, it has 5 years worth of archives that are worth browsing. Salvidar, a doctoral student in the above science, does a good job of culling informative and relevant articles at his site. It has an entire section on Mind and Brain with loads of articles. Somewhat Related Articles: 10 Ways to Learn in 2010. Share this on del.icio.us. Your resources are below. Enjoy. MORE >>