Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century by Cathy N. Davison, a polymath professor at Duke. 292 pages. 11.68 (paperback) on Amazon. Her blog. finished reading Cathy Davidson’s Now You See It yesterday afternoon. It is brilliant. Extremely well-written. Nearly impossible to put down. love the way this woman thinks. This is a beautiful book. Have you ever watched the television series Eureka ? Your eyes are pried open by the reality shift. That’s what I experienced reading Now You See It. Humans have low bandwidth. MORE >>

Question from a client: We have new information to tell our clients, but we aren’t ready to make videos. We’d like to create an interim audio podcast to provide this information in a simple and accessible format. How do we do this using a PC? There is still a role for audio podcasts on websites. [.]. Client question Development Podcast MORE >>

Expand your learning options with this list of 13 ways to learn. Post from: The eLearning Coach 13 Ways to Learn in 2013. eLearning 2.0 MORE >>

It's the time of year for resolutions. In fact, as I type, it's already 2nd January, so it's already the time for regrets as most resolutions are already broken, but I'll stick with the theme. For the past few years, my resolution has been to take the football less seriously, as my emotional state is so often determined by the run of results of Brighton and Hove Albion FC, but this time it's different. For 2013, I will endeavour to 'do as you would be done by', not in any karmic sense, but as a designer of learning solutions. As a designer, there's a real risk of under-estimating your audience. MORE >>

I struck up a conversation with a working man at a coffee shop last week. He’s one of the people who keep the phone network up, a veteran Bell-head phone guy. Works on poles and in people’s houses. What do you do? he asked and I said I was an author who writes about how people learn things at work. This fellow hates his job. Management doesn’t appreciate what he does. He says they don’t even know what he does. He gets no respect. When he joined the company, the Vice President who ran his region had come up from the ranks. He understood the challenges. His company. MORE >>